News Brief - November 2000:
Oregon is considered by some to be the greenest state in the nation, known for being the first state to enact state-wide growth management laws to stop development outside legally defined urban boundaries, but on election day in November, while media were watching the Presidential race and a total of 26 measures were on the Oregon ballot, the voters approved the most sweeping measure in the nation to protect private property rights. “Measure 7,” as it was called, requires that if the state or local government uses regulation to restrict the use of private property, the owner must be compensated for any loss in value.
Associated Press declared in January that “voters shocked property rights advocates and environmentalists alike by approving a constitutional amendment known as Measure 7 that could bring all those regulations - even local zoning - tumbling down.”
The measure is currently on hold because of legal challenges.
(January 2001)
For More Information:
Oregonians in Action
(Influential property rights group, brought Dolan v. Tigard
successfully)
P. O. Box 230637
Tigard, OR 97281
(503) 620-0258
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