Clackamas County
The Facts about Measure 37 claims in Clackamas County:
- Clackamas County has received 1,052 Measure 37 claims for development, the most of any county in the state.
- These claims cover over 37,000 acres - almost half the physical size of the city of Portland.
- 55% of the claims for development are within Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) zoning.
- Assuming the addition of just one household per acre, Clackamas
County would grow by more than 25%. This would add almost 400,000
vehicle trips per day.
The facts on Measure 37 claims in Clackamas County:
- Clackamas County has received 1,052 Measure 37 claims for development, the most of any county in the state.
- These claims cover over 37,000 acres - almost half the physical size of the city of Portland.
- 55% of the claims for development are within Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) zoning.
- Assuming the addition of just one household per acre, Clackamas
County would grow by more than 25%. This would add almost 400,000
vehicle trips per day.
- 18,500 or more acres could be turned into housing subdivisions
where the are currently not allowed. As many as 60 subdivisions would
be over 700 acres.
- Many subdivisions would be along the Clackamas River and other
environmentally sensitive areas; they could adversely affect water
quality for the entire county.
- Over 33% of the claims for development are "unspecified," so
the property, in some cases, could be used for almost any industrial or
commercial use, including landfills, quarries or retail stores.
- The total compensation amount demanded from Clackamas County if claimants are not allowed to develop is more than $2.66 billion.
Some examples of Measure 37 claims in Clackamas County:
- Strip Mine Near Molalla River. Charles and Wanda Dougherty.
Approved claim to build a strip mine close to the Teasal Creek, within
a mile of the Molalla River.
- Development Near Clackamas River. John Rosebrook. Intends to
"divide into maximum utilization," 281 acres of Exclusive Farm Use
(EFU) land along the Clackamas River.
- Destruction of Productive Farmland. Richard and Shirley
Gingerich. Unless taxpayers pay $25,282,787.44, over 286 acres of
Exclusive Farm Use land would be used for "any and all available uses
at time of acquisition, including but not limited to single-family
residential dwellings on approximately 1-acre parcels".
- Huge Subdivision Near Clackamas River. Terry Emmert.
Construction of more than 185 houses on Exclusive Farm Use land
bordering the clackamas River.
- Massive Housing Subdivision of Forest Land. Avison Lumber
Company. Intends to develop over 930 acres into massive housing
subdivisions on farm and forest land.
- Subdivision, RV PArk and Rock Quarry. Carl W. Fischer. Twenty
acres of forestland near Colton would become a residential subdivision,
RV park and Rock Quarry.
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