The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners will withdraw last year’s approval of the land-use application from Oregon Pipeline LLC and reexamine the issue.
The board voted Nov. 8, 2010 to accept a hearings officer’s ruling granting approval to the consolidated application. The decision was appealed to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals by project opponents led by Columbia Riverkeeper.
The board, with three new members, voted Wednesday to file a notice of withdrawal with the Land Use Board of Appeals for reconsideration of the November 2010 ruling, which granted conditional approval for the construction of 41 miles of pipeline to serve a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Warrenton.
Jurisdictions have the authority to withdraw, re-examine and potentially reverse land-use decisions prior to completing and filing the record of the process with the Land Use Board of Appeals.
The deadline for the county to withdraw the November ruling was Friday, Jan. 14, which is the day that the record of the prior proceedings were due at the Land Use Board of Appeals.
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Source: Clatsop County, January 14, 2011;