HR County Commission Continues Dee Hotel Hearing To April 2

The Hood River County Commission decided to continue to April 2 the hearing on the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals remand of Apollo Land Holdings’ application to construct a hotel on the former Dee Mill site as part of the DeeTour project.  The County Commission had approved the application a year ago after the County Planning Commission denied it, but the Hood River Valley Residents Committee appealed to LUBA, which sent it back to the County after ruling there were three assignments of error in the final decision.  Commission Chair Ron Rivers said the panel received 150 pages of material from the various parties in the remand, and needed time to digest it.  Under the remand, the County must determine if a new reasons exception is needed to allow the hotel on the land zoned M-1 Industrial, if it is an allowed use given the M-1 zone and the original exception for the Dee Mill, and if the septic system proposed for the hotel violates a Comprehensive Land Use Plan goal restricting public sewer systems being extended outside of an unincorporated community.  The County did allow the application to be modified to drop the size of the hotel from 50 rooms to 27.  

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