Today’s Washington Post has a story that Oregon is “rethinking” ballot measure 37, the property-rights measure that voters approved by a 61-to-39 margin in 2004. But all the article really points to is the gripes of a few planning advocates.
The article points out that claims under measure 37 (which allows landowners to ask for compensation or waiver if land-use rules reduce the value of their property) cover less than 1 percent of the land in the state. Yet some blogger interprets this as “For Sale: Oregon, Most of It.” I don’t know where that blogger learned arithmetic, but when I went to school, “less than 1 percent” is not “most of it.”
