by Crag Law Center | Apr 24, 2019 | Features, Land Use News
Protecting Rural Coastal Lands from Sprawl On August 24, 2018, Crag and our client, Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, celebrated a win for rural working lands and the laws that protect coastal landscapes. In 2004, Oregonians adopted a law that rolled back...
by Crag Law Center | Jul 1, 2014 | Blog
I recently moved to Portland from New York to work at Crag for the summer and I have noticed that Oregon is a very special state. People here have a strong connection with the environment and live and work with the land instead of bulldozing it to make room for an...
by Courtney Johnson | Oct 21, 2011 | Blog, Features, Land Use News, News
Oregon’s epic battle over land use and property rights in Measure 37 and Measure 49 Β closed a chapter this week. Β Yesterday, the Oregon Supreme Court issued its decision in Friends of Yamhill County v. Board of Commissioners of Yamhill County, finding that...
by Courtney Johnson | Jun 29, 2011 | Land Use News, News
Today, the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded two more Measure 49 Vested Rights decisions out of Clatsop County. Β In both cases, landowners sought the right to complete and continue development of residential subdivisions pursuant to waivers obtained under Measure...
