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Reports
The Long & Winding Road
Farmland Protection in Oregon 1961-2009
Edward Sullivan & Ronald Eber
Examines Oregon's use of tax policies and land use laws to preserve farmland and measures their effictiveness. Originally published in the San Joaquin Agricultural Law Review.
Putting the People in Planning
A Primer on Public Participation in Planning (3rd Edition, May 2008)
Oregon Department of Land Conservation & Development (DLCD)
A "how to" manual about public participation in land use planning. A great resource for planners and local officials to help implement Oregon's Statewide Planning Goal One - CItizen Involvement - and explain Goal One to non-planners.
Download the manual (129 pages) in pdf format from DLCD's web site.
Too Many Homes on the Range
The impact of rural sprawl on ranching and habitat
1000 Friends of Oregon
Based upon dozens of interviews with ranchers, environmentalists, land use planners and others, this report explores the impact of development on both ranches and plant and animal habitat in Eastern Oregon.
Download the entire report in pdf format.
Measure 37-related reports
How Have Land-Use Regulations Affected Property Values in Oregon?
Oregon State University Extension Service
(from the Salem Statesman Journal, June 6, 2007)
A new study suggests Oregon's land-use laws don't limit or reduce property values, and in fact may boost them.
Oregon State University economists William Jaeger and Andrew Plantinga examined land values in parts of Oregon over the past 40 years, beginning before Oregon's land-use planning system was in place. They compared land-value patterns for restricted and developable lands, and compared patterns in Oregon with patterns for similar areas in Washington State, where land-use planning has only recently been enforced.
The study found:
* Since 1973, when Oregon's land-use planning system was adopted, the rate of change in land values in Oregon has been about the same as for similar lands in Washington;
* Lands with the most stringent development limits (such as those with exclusive farm or forest use zoning) have increased in value at about the same rate as lands without such restrictions;
* In the Lane County sample, the value of lands outside the Eugene urban growth boundary (UGB) grew slightly faster than properties inside the UGB;
* There is no evidence of slower rates of increase overall for the Oregon lands studied compared to lands in the Washington counties studied.
Download the entire study in pdf format.
Oregon's Public Investment in Conservation, Prosperity and Fairness
American Land Institute
A new research report from the American Land Institute shows that from 1974 to 2004, farm and forest landowners in Oregon received property tax reductions totaling $4.8 billion. The study, Oregon's Public Investment in Conservation, Prosperity and Fairness, pokes some serious holes in the argument by Measure 37 proponents that landowners were never compensated for having their land re-zoned to farm or forest use in the 1970s. In fact, the report also shows that the value of those lands has steadily risen (in terms of real dollars) over that period.
Read the report summary and news release. For a copy of the full report, click here.
Two Years of Measure 37: Oregon's Property Wrongs
Sightline Institute
A companion report to 1000 Friends' And Fairness for None video, the report documents how Measure 37 has affected residents of seven communities--farmers, foresters, business owners, and suburbanites--and examines whether the initiative is undermining the very rights it claimed to protect
Click here to download individual stories or the entire report.
Donors Who Gave More than Half the Money to the Measure 37 Campaign File Over $600 Million in Claims;
Could Earn Windfall on Campaign Investment
Democracy Reform Oregon
This analysis by Democracy Reform Oregon documents that several major contributors to the Measure 37 campaign have Measure 37 claims that will give them windfall profits on their campaign investment.
The report shows that more than half (56 percent) of the funding for the Measure 37 campaign came from only 4 percent of the campaign's donors, and that those donors are now lining up to cash in. One example is Stimson Lumber Company, which gave $30,000 to the campaign and has filed at least $269 million in Measure 37 claims.
Democracy Reform Oregon's release, which includes a table of Measure 37 contributors and their claims, is available in pdf format here. For more information, go to their web site.
Annual Report
2008/2009 Annual Report to members
1000 Friends of Oregon
Each year we provide our members with an Annual Report, which includes our financial reports. Our ongoing commitment to you, our donors, is that we will continue to work hard to make sure we spend your dollars wisely. As supporters of 1000 Friends' work to protect the Oregon we all love, you deserve to know how vital your contributions are, and how we put your donations to work. Download the report in pdf format.
