Opinion
SC S44330
Argued and submitted March 3, 1998
Decisions of the Department of Corrections, The Corrections Facility Siting Authority, And the Governor affirmed March 19, 1998
On judicial review of the decisions of the Department of Corrections, the Corrections Facility Siting Authority, and the Governor.
John R. Huttl, of Frohnmayer, Deatherage, Pratt, Jamieson Clarke, Medford, argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioners.
Robert M. Atkinson, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondents. With him on the brief were Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Michael D. Reynolds, Solicitor General.
En Banc
PER CURIAM
The decisions of the Department of Corrections, the Corrections Facility Siting Authority, and the Governor are affirmed.
This is a case of direct review of decisions by the Corrections Facility Siting Authority and the Governor to approve, and by the Department of Corrections to site, a prison at Stimpson Gulch in Jackson County. Petitioners own property in the vicinity of the proposed site. They challenge the siting decisions, raising several statutory and constitutional issues. We have considered all of petitioners' challenges, but conclude that they either are controlled by this court's decision in City of Wilsonville v. Dept. of Corrections, 326 Or. 152, 951 P.2d 128 (1997), or otherwise are not well taken.
See ORS 421.611 to 421.630 (setting out siting process and authorizing Supreme Court review of siting decisions).
The decisions of the Department of Corrections, the Corrections Facility Siting Authority, and the Governor are affirmed.