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Neighbors of a 108-acre parcel off Crawfordsville Drive are asking the Oregon Supreme Court to overrule a decision by the state appellate court that is the latest in a battle between a developer and landowners north of Crawfordsville.

Neighbors are represented in the appeal by 1,000 Friends of Oregon, a Portland nonprofit that advocates for land-use planning. They argue that the property in question, located north of Crawfordsville Drive and the Calapooia River, northeast of Crawfordsville and the intersection of Brush Creek Road and Highway 228, should not be rezoned from farm forest to n...