Truth in Site has appealed its case against Oregon State University-Cascades Campus to the state Supreme Court. The only question now is how long will it be before the group loses again.

For those who have not been keeping track, Truth in Site’s logic failed with city staff.

It failed with a hearings officer.

It failed with the Bend City Council.

It failed with the Land Use Board of Appeals.

It failed with the Oregon Court of Appeals.

That’s fail, fail, fail, fail and fail.

OSU-Cascades is building a new campus on a 10-acre site off Chandler Avenue in Bend. It has seriously considered future expansion in a nearby 46-acre pumice pit and a nearby 76-acre dump. The university does not own those sites and may never own them. They both present weighty challenges.

Truth in Site has raised some legitimate concerns about the campus, including traffic and parking. But its appeal to Oregon’s highest court raises a whopper of an objection. It wants OSU-Cascades to be required to present full-fledged plans for those sites it does not own and may never own.

If that logic becomes the standard in Oregon land use law, government officials would have to make land use decisions based on guesses of developer intent.

Palmistry, soothsaying, and throwing bones could be the hot new consulting gigs in Oregon. Maybe there would be a state oracle to divine the signs and portents. Truth in Site, aka full employment for fortune tellers.

Truth in Site professes its objectives are to be an advocate for truth about the campus and participate in the process. But its defining characteristics have come to be a lucrative indulgence for attorneys and a screechy, irrelevant wail.