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Article: Land rules haven't cut property values.(Local Opinion)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2007
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Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By William Jaeger and Andrew Plantinga For The Register-Guard
The premise of Measure 37 is that Oregon's land use regulations have reduced property values. This, in the view of its supporters, entitles landowner to just compensation or waivers of regulations. Oregonians in Action, the chief opponent of Measure 49 - the proposal on the Nov. 6 ballot that would revise Measure 37 - asserts that "the planning system lowers the value of private property in Oregon by $5.4 billion a year."
We decided to look for evidence. Impacts of this magnitude should be easy to find, considering the annual value from all farmland in Oregon is, ...