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public participation process so that
land speculators have unlimited
development potential,” Eisenbeis
said.
But Leroy Laack, a real estate bro
ker and farmer who has filed two
Measure 37 claims since December,
said Measure 37 is enabling him to fi
nally make use of the land he bought
more than three decades ago.
“This place that I’m talking about
is my home place,” Laack said. “We
bought it because we wanted to live
out there and build a home out
there, and by the time we got
around to doing it, that right had
been taken away from us.”
Laack said his story is similar
to many of the stories behind Mea
sure 37 claims and that compensa
tion from the government for regu
lations that decrease the value of
property is an essential right
all citizens must have.
“A land with no right
worthless,” Laack said.
“It’s the rights that go
with the land that has
the value.”
Laack owns the
Twin Hills Ranch near
Salem and filed a Mea
sure 37 claim earlier this
month to develop the
land, which was zoned as 4
exclusive farm use just a few
years after it was purchased.
Laack said the land’s only value
lies in development and if the state
government wants to preserve it for
open space, it should purchase the
land rather than place regulations
on it. Many neighboring residents
have expressed concern over the en
vironmental impacts of Laack’s
development plans.
Laack said he has encountered dif
ficulty from Marion County regarding
his claim, difficulty he accredits with
the county’s reluctance to enforce the
law because of the lack of funds
available for compensation.
“I think it was supposed to be much
simpler than it turned out to be,”
Laack said about the confusion in the
aftermath of the measure’s passage.
Ackerman said some state
senators and representatives are re
luctant to intervene in the mea
sure’s legislative process, but the
confusion over the law is affecting
so many individuals and businesses
across the state that the legislature
believes it is important to step in
and provide some clarity.
Ackerman said many title loan
companies and banking institutions
are reluctant to
issue insurance
or loans to
property own
ers if there is a
possibility the
land could fall
under a Mea
sure 37 claim,
and many
companies are
looking at the
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vagueness of the law as a reason to
charge higher rates.
“There’s all sorts of property is
sues that need to be worked out,”
Ackerman said. “It’s in the best in
terest that we clarify everything. ”
Jonathan Evans, a second-year
law student at the University who
worked on the No on 37 campaign,
said it is important for the state leg
islature to intervene in Measure 37
issues because of the obvious con
fusion it has caused across the state.
Ackerman said he has been sur
prised by the number of claims filed
in the state, saying he expected
many more, but Evans said many of
the timber companies and other
pro-Measure 37 businesses could be
waiting until the legislature gets out
to file their major claims.
“It’s just a mess, and nobody
knows how it’s going to play out,”
Evans said. “We don’t
want to just sit there and
shrug our shoulders and
wonder what’s going on.”
The lawsuit filed by
1000 Friends of Oregon,
four farm bu
reaus and seven
farmers and prop
erty owners is
“proceeding,”
Eisenbeis said,
though he would
not comment on
its current status.
Measure 37
passed with
approximately 60
percent of the
vote, making it
one of the most
voted-for ballot
measures in Ore
gon history. But
Eisenbeis said the mea
sure’s effects on the pub
lic participatory process
are such that it makes the
entire law unconstitution
al, and 1000 Friends of
Oregon claims on its Web
site that it “actually
creates inequity and
unfairness.”
“We believe that public involve
ment is just good government,”
Eisenbeis said.
Ackerman said though he hasn’t
examined the lawsuit closely,
he doesn’t expect it to do much in
the way of amending the law. Those
who filed the lawsuit may claim
it’s about fairness, but “fairness
doesn’t necessarily win lawsuits,”
Ackerman said.
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