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 closed a chapter this week. 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. In both cases, landowners sought the right to complete and continue development of residential subdivisions pursuant to waivers obtained under Measure...
