Anti Measure 37 Campaign Sign
2004
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Lawn campaign sign composed of white corrugated plastic. Sign is rectangular with black printed text in stencil-like font reading "STRIPMALLS | OR | STRAWBERRY | FIELDS?" Sign has two mounting holes, one at center top and other at center bottom.
More about this item
- Identifier
- ghs20250150001
- Description
- Lawn campaign sign composed of white corrugated plastic. Sign is rectangular with black printed text in stencil-like font reading "STRIPMALLS | OR | STRAWBERRY | FIELDS?" Sign has two mounting holes, one at center top and other at center bottom.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Date
- 2004
- Subject
- Land use
- Land subdivision
- Urban growth
- Elections
- Provenance
- Jay Lehr displayed this sign opposing Oregon Measure 37 at his Gresham home leading up to the 2004 November election. The measure gives property owners the right to claim compensation from local governments for reduced property values resulting from land use regulations. The most controversial part of the measure dictated that land owners who did not receive compensation within two years could use their property in any way permitted when they first purchased it, which in some cases removed decades of land use changes and environmental protections. In the Gresham area, it paved the way for residential and commercial development of agricultural parcels that had previously been protected, as predicted in the text of this sign. By 2006, about 40 land use claims had been filed in East Multnomah under Measure 37. The measure passed and is now codified as Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) 195.305. Measure 49, passed by Oregon voters in 2007, significantly reduces the impact of 37.
- Format
- Sign, Yard
- Collection
- Gresham Heritage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
Part of Anti Measure 37 Campaign Sign
