The Oregon Supreme Court in February upheld Measure
ROBERT STEUTEVILLE    APR. 1, 2006
The Oregon Supreme Court in February upheld Measure 37, a law that could undo the state’s three-decade-long effort to restrict development outside urban growth boundaries. The law, approved by voters in November 2004, requires governments to let landowners exercise development rights that existed prior to the state’s land-use restrictions. Otherwise, governments must compensate the owners for the loss of value caused by those limits.