Measure wha-?
OK, this Measure 37 thing takes a little explainin’ for non-Oregon audiences. Measure 37 was a “property rights” initiative passed a few years back. It allows anyone who has had the land use laws changes on them (by new zoning or environmental regulations, for example) to file a claim for the reduced value of their land (as a result of, say, not being able to build a subdivision on it). The government has to either pay up or (since no funding source was designated) waive the law for the landowner. It’s retroactive -- if the zoning was changed any time since your family bought the land, even decades ago, you can file a claim.
It was sold with a sweet little old lady who just wanted to build a house on her family farmland, but was prevented by mean old zoning laws; it has been used by giant companies seeking to build subdivisions all over the farmland and protected rural land that the state has been trying to preserve. The final outcome is still up in the air, but right now there are millions of dollars worth of claims pending for everything from gravel pits to 10,000-acre subdivisions.
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