by Elizabeth Allen | Jun 5, 2018 | Features, The Way We Work
In this installation of The Way We Work, I interviewed Steve Rouse, the board president of Rogue Advocates, a nonprofit that has partnered with Crag on land use cases for years. He describes his work empowering communities in the land use process. Rogue Advocates has...
by Maura Fahey | Dec 16, 2017 | Communities News, Land Use News
On December 14, the Oregon Supreme Court issued an opinion in a long-running dispute between neighbors and Jackson County over the enforcement of state and local land use laws. In a joining opinion, two Justices of the Court, including Chief Justice Thomas Balmer,...
by Maura Fahey | Jan 22, 2016 | Features, Land Use News, News
After nearly four years of representing Rogue Advocates and local Rogue Valley residents in a fight against an illegal asphalt operation, Crag has secured an order from a federal judge requiring the asphalt plant to cease operations at a residential property in...
by Crag Law Center | Jan 12, 2016 | Land Use News, News
Yesterday the Land Use Board of Appeals upheld a recent victory that Crag secured on behalf of Rogue Advocates, upholding a Jackson County Hearings Officer’s decision that denies land use approval for an asphalt batch plant operation that has been illegally...
by Courtney Johnson | Aug 27, 2014 | Environmental Justice News, Land Use News
Crag Law Center secured a victory today, on behalf of Rogue Advocates and local residents in Talent, Oregon, to uphold the rights of the public to participate in the local land use decision making process. Today’s decision from the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) is...