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Cite as 269 Or App 176 (2015) 187 land use decision shall be filed not later than 21 days after the date the decision sought to be reviewed becomes final."). Second, the legislature has, in ORS 197.820(4)(a), specifically directed LUBA to adopt rules for the "conduct of"' proceedings under ORS 197.830, which we did not con- sider in Wicks-Snodgrass. And, as noted, those rules require service of the notice of intent to appeal on persons to "whom written notice of the land use decision or limited land use decision was mailed," OAR 661-010-0015(3)(f)(D), which, by virtue of EC 9.7685 (1)(d), must include persons who appeared before the local government. Thus, Wicks-Snodgrass is not helpful.. Nor does the legislative history support applicant's reading of the statute. ORS 197.830(7)(c) was enacted as part of House Bill (HB) 2502 (1997), which also imposed the 21-day deadline for filing a motion to intervene in an appeal before LUBA. Or Laws 1997, ch 187, § 1. Before that enact- ment, the statute allowed motions to intervene as long as they were filed "[w]ithin a reasonable time" after the notice of intent to appeal was filed. ORS 197.830(6)(a) (1995).14 As originally proposed, HB 2502 simply imposed the 21-day deadline; it did not include subsection (c). At a public hearing, the proponent of HB 2502 testified that the purpose of the bill was to establish a time limit for people to decide whether they wanted to intervene to avoid the successive raising of issues, which, in turn, would increase the incentive to mediate disputes before LUBA. Tape Recording, House Committee on Environment and Energy, HB 2502, Mar 17, 1997, Tape 36, Side A (statement of Rep Brian Johnston). At that hearing, Christine Cook, a staff attorney with 1000 Friends of Oregon, raised a concern that the 21-day deadline might be "flexibly enforced" by LUBA and suggested that, if it is intended to be a "hard and fast deadline," the bill should make clear that "failure to comply with this deadline is not a technical violation but would preclude intervention by the parties seeking to do so." Id. (statement of Christine Cook). In her written testimony before the committee, in which she made the same suggestion, Cook referred, as an example, 14 At the time, the statute referred to a "petition for review" rather than a notice of intent to appeal.