Court Opinion

ID: 9624482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 07:04:35.428467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:50:53.792734
License: Public Domain

*431LINDE, J.,
dissenting.
I join in Justice Howell’s dissenting opinion that the structure in question here is not a "trailer house” within the meaning of the 1960 Clackamas County Ordinance. I only add a few sentences to stress the point made in the majority opinion as well as the dissent, that this decision states no general rule concerning mobile or modular homes but solely interprets that particular ordinance. Local governments may, within the limits of law, adopt and amend their ordinances to meet their objectives, and even the use of the same words does not necessarily carry the same interpretation in the ordinances of different cities or counties if there is reason to conclude that the words were meant in a different sense when they were adopted. Clackamas County in 1960 might have chosen to include structures such as the Dunhams’ when they made "trailer houses” a conditional use, but for the reasons stated by Justice Howell, I do not believe it did so.