Eugene to fight Measure 7
■The Eugene City Council
hopes to file a lawsuit against
the passed ballot measure
before it takes effect
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
The City of Eugene plans to file a
lawsuit by Dec. 7 challenging the
newly passed Oregon Ballot Mea
sure 7.
The Eugene City Council voted
unanimously Monday in an execu
tive session to join other Oregon
governments and counties in op
posing the measure, which will re
quire local governments to com
pensate landowners if the
government enacts or enforces a
regulation that lowers the value of
an owner’s property.
State officials are estimating that
the measure will cost more than
$3.5 billion a year, with costs in Eu
gene and Lane County reaching
into the millions of dollars when
the measure is enacted.
City Councilman David Kelly
said the city joined the suit against
the measure for two reasons, one
being philosophical and one being
legal.
“Measure 7 did not pass in Eu
gene or in Lane County and would
devastate the city’s ability to handle
land-use planning and zoning,”
Kelly said. “It has also appeared to
good legal minds from around the
state that this measure does not fol
low how an amendment should
work.
“There is a broad spectrum of
folks lined up against this meas
/
ure.”
Jerry Lidz, who is one of the city
attorneys working on the case, said
the measure was not properly
adopted because it is not a single
amendment but instead attempts to
revise several sections of the Ore
gon Constitution.Lidz said the city
hopes to file its suit by Dec. 7,
which is when the measure will go
into effect. Landowners can begin
filing claims under Measure 7 as
soon as it goes into effect, and from
there, city governments have 90
{ { Measure 7 did not pass
in Eugene or Lane County
and would devastate the
city's ability to handle
land-use planning and
zoning It has a Iso
appeared to good legal
minds from around the
state that this measure
does not follow how an
amendment should work.
David Kelly
city councilman
days to decide how to handle the
claims.
“If we can get this suit filed be
fore the measure is enacted, there’s
a possibility the measure would not
cost Oregon governments as much
money,” Lidz said.
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The city hopes to have the law
suit resolved before the first 90-day
period ends.
In the meantime, the council has
taken some action to prepare for the
enactment of the measure — the
council passed an ordinance Mon
day that will further clarify how the
claims will be processed.
The ordinance will create a re
view and compensation process
that will help the city determine
whether a landowner’s claim falls
within the scope of Measure 7 and,
if so, whether the city can afford to
pay the claim.
Another concern of the city is
how the measure will affect zoning
and environmental regulations.
Measure 7 could cause local gov
ernments to drop environmental
and zoning regulations to avoid ex
pensive compensations, said Eu
gene Planning Director Jan Childs.
“It’s really too soon to tell at this
point exactly what effect the meas
ure will have on the city,” Childs
said. “We’ll have to wait and see af
ter the measure has been in effect
fora while.”
But councilors say they don’t
want to wait to see the effects of the
measure, but would rather head it
off.
“If this measure is enacted as
planned, property values will
plummet,” Councilwoman Bonny
Bettman said.
Bettman also said the measure
will take away the state’s regulation
of land use and will eliminate cer
tain environmental regulations.
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