Trying to Untie Property Owners’ Hands, Voters Also Ended Some Checks on Sprawl
A voter initiative in 2004, however, undermined the state’s land-use law. With the overwhelming approval of Measure 37, which has been upheld in the courts and is shredding the anti-sprawl status quo, Oregonians unwittingly replaced land-use quirkiness with land-use chaos.
Many here are now suffering from voter’s remorse and want the law fixed, according to opinion polls, newspaper pundits and a number of powerful state politicians.
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