228 Or. App. 607 - Timberlake v. Washington County’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “involves the delegated responsibility for “assessment and ranking of the policy objectives explicit or implicit in the statute” and for the 'judgment that one or more of these objectives will be served by a given action, In other words, insofar as an official action involves both the determination -of facts and simple cause- and-effect relationships and also the assessment of costs and benefits, the evaluation of relative effectiveness and risks, and a choice among competing goals and priorities, an-official has “discretion” to the extent that he has been delegated responsibility for the latter kind of value judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Addison v. City of Baker City