Appeals Court Remands Wal-Mart Permit

The decade-long saga of a proposal to build a Wal-Mart in The Dalles near Chenoweth Creek has taken another turn.  The Oregon Court of Appeals reversed and remanded back to the Division of State Lands a decision to award a wetland fill and removal permit for the project.  The group Citizens For Responsible Development took the issue to the appellant court, contending DSL lacked a finding that the project served a public need and therefore the agency lacked authority to grant the permit.  In the remand ruling the Court found state statutes require DSL find the public need for a proposed project predominates before issuing a fill and removal permit, and because in the case of this application it found it was inconclusive whether the project would address a public need, DSL erred in granting Wal-Mart the permit.

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