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(City Planning and Zoning), but it is clear by the extensive subdivision and partitioning case law that most subdivision and partitioning decisions are land use decisions. Local partitioning and subdivision regulations must then comply with state statute, or state statute must apply directly to local government decisions. ORS 92.217 also lends support to the determination that local regulations cannot be used to supercede state subdivision and partitioning laws: "A lot or parcel lawfully created shall remain a discrete lot or parcel, unless the lot or parcel lines are vacated or the lot or parcel is further divided, as provided by law." In Kishpaugh v. Clackamas County, 24 Or LUBA 164, (1992), the Land Use Board of Appeals found the purpose of this law was to prevent local governments from refusing to recognize lawful divisions of land such that lots and parcels could not be sold to third parties, and to establish that the property lines established by such land divisions remain inviolate, absent the employment of a specific process to eliminate such property lines. Again, local laws are not to be used to confound state subdivision and partitioning laws. Finally, under MCSPO I2(g), one of the objectives of the MCSPO is to regulate the subdividing and partitioning of land in unincorporated Marion County in accord with applicable state statutes and state planning goals. Consistent with state statute, applicant's proposed land division, P 02-21 and P 02-22, may be processed as separate partitions and not as one-subdivision. Notice was not defective, and the hearings officer has jurisdiction to consider this partitioning application. IV. Findings of Fact The hearings officer, after careful consideration of the testimony and evidence in the record, issues the following findings of fact: The subject property is designated Rural Residential in the MCCP, and is zoned AR. The purpose of this designation and zoning is to allow the creation of acreage homesites at a density that maintain~ the character and environmental quality of the county's rural residential areas. The property is also in a sensitive groundwater overlay zone - five-acre minimum (SGO-5), and a geologically hazardous areas overlay zone. The subject parcel is on the west side of River Springs Drive S, approximately ~ mile south of its intersection with Vitae Springs Road S. The property is currently vacant. The parcel was lawfully created by P 99-1, and is recorded as parcel 3 of partitioning plat 2001-65. P 02-22 - ORDER -4 KOLOEN