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Both sides of Measure 49 say opponents' ads are misleading
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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11/04/2007 |
| Both sides of Measure 49 are trading comments about a final round of television and other ads before Tuesday's election. Ads in support urge voters to look at the explanatory language on the ballot: "Modifies Measure 37; clarifies right to build homes; limits large developments; protects farms, forests, groundwater." | |
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Votes light so far on weighty issues
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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11/04/2007 |
| Preserving Oregon's farmland and scenic beauty. Protecting property rights. Extending health insurance to 100,000 youths. Raising taxes for smokers. Measures 49 and 50 put weighty issues on Tuesday's statewide ballot -- issues that long have aroused residents' passions. Yet voters don't seem enthusiastic, despite hefty TV advertising for both measures and record spending by tobacco companies. | |
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SORTING FACT FROM SPIN IN MEASURE 49 CAMPAIGN ADS
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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11/03/2007 |
| For weeks, TV viewers have been greeted by images of unhappy folks who share their fears of depleted retirement savings, seized property and vanished inheritances. All are warning of a grim future for perhaps every Oregonian if Measure 49 passes in Tuesday’s election. Meanwhile, remote-control-wielding Oregonians also have been told that they can help farmers protect their way of life and livelihood and contain the sprawl of subdivisions and strip malls, if they just follow the advice of farmers, firefighters and others, and pass Measure 49. | |
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Oregon farm bureaus and nurserymen promote M-49
- Hillsboro Argus (new window)
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10/23/2007 |
| SAUVIE ISLAND - Farmers from counties throughout the lower Willamette Valley, including leadership of the state and county farm bureaus, gathered last week at a farm here to tell Oregonians why they hope the state passes Measure 49 on Nov. 6. The farm community is deeply concerned about the unlimited development of subdivisions and strip malls on lands that Measure 37 allows on lands previously dedicated to agriculture. | |
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Both sides of Measure 49 say it's all about fairness
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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10/22/2007 |
| The year before he voted for Oregon's property-compensation law Measure 37 in 2004, Don Dean bought property in the hills south of Salem. He checked beforehand with Marion County planners. He was assured his new home was in a buffer zone next to a farm-use area, and that under the county plan and Oregon's land-use planning laws, he would not have to worry about development next door. Then after voters approved Measure 37, LeRoy Laack filed a claim seeking compensation or a waiver of land-use regulations to develop 43 home sites on 217 acres. | |
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Owner fears effects of new homes
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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10/22/2007 |
| With almost 60 years between them at TRW Inc., Vincent and Genevieve "Gene" Melynis decided the time had come to leave behind the aerospace business and Southern California. They had friends who lived in Oregon, and they had plenty of equity from their previous home. | |
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Basic questions of Measures 37, 49 and what they mean
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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10/21/2007 |
| Here are some questions and answers about Measure 49, which Oregon voters will decide in a special election Nov. 6. | |
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Agriculture, housing don't mix, second-generation farmer says
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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10/21/2007 |
| Not far from the north end of Keizer, off Wheatland Road North, lie the 300 acres of Bruce Chapin's filbert orchard. He raises filberts and cherries on some of the best bottom land in the Willamette Valley, in the floodplain of the Willamette River. Oregon produces 100 percent of the nation's filberts. | |
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Measure 49 is new chapter in land use, may not be last
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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10/21/2007 |
| For Oregonians, the struggle over land-use planning has lasted more than a generation. Since the state took a stronger role in land-use planning in the early 1970s, supporters and opponents continually have wrangled over the issue in the Legislature and the ballot box -- with voters rejecting three attempts to repeal or weaken the land-use law in 1976, 1978 and 1982. Then in 2004, after a false start four years earlier, critics won with the passage of Measure 37. It allowed landowners to file claims for government compensation or seek waivers of land-use regulations to develop property. Now the latest chapter in this controversy is playing out with the Nov. 6 election on Measure 49, which proposes to scale back some of Measure 37's claims and ease the path for others. | |
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Measure 49: Yes
- Mail Tribune (new window)
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10/21/2007 |
| If you think individual property owners should be able to build a house or two on land that's been in the family for years, but huge subdivisions, strip malls or industrial sites in rural areas are a bad idea, vote yes. | |
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Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
- The Oregonian (new window)
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10/21/2007 |
| Developer John D. Gray, known as a wise steward of the land, hopes voters will approach Measure 49 with eyes on the future | |
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Vote for a prosperous Oregon, not only for today
- The Oregonian (new window)
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10/21/2007 |
| Up until now, Oregon farmland has worked like a savings account. We can blow through it all at once and build suburbs -- and that's the business model of Measure 37 -- but it makes more sense to keep the land producing and paying off in farm income for generations. By approving Measure 49, voters can tell the bulldozers to back up, be gone -- and farmers like Oates to keep going. Keep growing, take care of business and make that business farming. | |
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Timber companies battle Oregon property rights rollback
- Associated Press
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10/20/2007 |
| New TV ads depict elderly couples worrying that the value of their land could be destroyed by a measure on the Nov. 6 ballot that would scale back a 2004 property rights law that opened up new possibilities for development. The ads are bankrolled in large part by timber companies, some of whom have filed claims to turn forest land into housing subdivisions under the 2004 property law known as Measure 37, and stand to benefit if the current law is left as it is. | |
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Both Sides In Measure 49 Debate Claim Farmer Support
- OPB (new window)
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10/18/2007 |
| 77-year-old Edmund Duyke has been farming outside of Hillsboro for more than 50 years. In that time, he’s seen a lot of development. One subdivision nearby sucks up much of the ground water he uses to irrigate his fields of sweet corn. Now Duyke’s neighbors on either side of his farm have filed Measure 37 claims for even more development. That’s why he’s hoping Measure 49 will put on the brakes. | |
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| 10/08/2007 | |
| Measure 49 is shaping up to be one of the hottest campaign fights of the fall. Measure 49 limits the development allowed under property compensation initiative, Measure 37. It changes the process for reviewing claims, and addresses the measure's legal uncertainties. OPB's April Baer spoke with Jeremiah Baumann, spokesman for the Yes on 49 campaign. (In his day job he's an advocate for Environment Oregon.) | |
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Vintners say Measure 37 could prune wine trade
- The Oregonian (new window)
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09/27/2007 |
| NEWBERG -- Measure 37, unless modified by voters, holds the power to severely crimp the future of Oregon's wine industry at precisely the time it is fast gaining national and international traction, a group of winemakers said Wednesday. Standing in a Parrett Mountain vineyard ripe for harvest, three winemakers and a wine-country tour operator said claims already filed under the voter-approved measure could affect more than 100,000 acres of prime potential vineyard land. | |
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M37 a threat to farmland, wine industry
- Gazette-Times (new window)
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09/26/2007 |
| Pro-conservation groups this week released back-to-back studies charging that Measure 37 threatens high-value Willamette Valley farmland and Oregon’s growing wine industry. The studies, conducted by Environment Oregon and the American Land Institute, also claim that the changes proposed in the Nov. 6 ballot Measure 49 would fix the problems. | |
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M37 a threat to farmland, wine industry
- Gazette-Times (new window)
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09/26/2007 |
| Pro-conservation groups this week released back-to-back studies charging that Measure 37 threatens high-value Willamette Valley farmland and Oregon’s growing wine industry. The studies, conducted by Environment Oregon and the American Land Institute, also claim that the changes proposed in the Nov. 6 ballot Measure 49 would fix the problems. | |
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Off-shore drilling ban heads to Oregon governor
- kgw.com (AP) (new window)
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06/05/2007 |
| A ban on offshore drilling for gas, oil or sulfur up to three miles off the Oregon Coast until 2010 passed the House 47-11 Monday and goes to Gov. Ted Kulongoski. | |
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Legislature says No! to off-shore drilling
- OregonLive.com (new window)
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06/05/2007 |
| Drilling for gas, oil or sulfur off the Oregon Coast would be prohibited under a bill that passed the House Monday on a 47-11 vote. Senate Bill 790 places a moratorium on leasing for purpose of exploration, development or production of oil, gas or sulfur up to three miles off the Oregon Coast until Jan. 2, 2010. | |
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Protect roadless areas
- The Register-Guard
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04/25/2006 |
| A year has passed since the Bush administration took a chainsaw to federal protections for nearly 60 million acres of roadless areas in national forests. | |
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