[Grovenet] Fwd: Misleading Campaign Brochure from Opponents of 49

[Bonnie Combs]

--- Gerik Kransky <gerik at friends.org> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:29:22 -0700
> From: Gerik Kransky <gerik at friends.org>
> To: tosca at prodigy.net
> Subject: Misleading Campaign Brochure from Opponents
> of 49
> 
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> Misleading Brochure Hides True Development Plans and
> Distorts the Impacts of Measure 49
> 
> Opponents of Measure 49, some of whom are asking for
> up to 140 homes, issued a glossy 8-page brochure to
> Oregon voters this week making false claims about
> the effects of Measure 49.
> 
> Among the most egregious claims—
> 
> CLAIM: The Netters say: "If Measure 49 passes, we'll
> lose the value of our property.  We want to see the
> tradition go on... we want to farm."
> 
> WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU: The statement is
> false. The Netters filed a Measure 37 claim for a
> 60-lot housing subdivision on their 98 acres of
> exclusive farm use land.  The state denied the
> subdivision because the land was already protected
> farm land when Fred Netter acquired it in 1977. 
> Under Measure 37 they are allowed up to 3
> houses—Measure 49 would preserve these rights.
> 
> CLAIM: Marla Robison says in the brochure: “Measure
> 49 is about stopping us from passing our property
> rights on to our grandchildren.”
> 
> WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU: The opposite is true.
> Measure 49 specifically allows property owners to
> pass development rights on to their grandchildren,
> which is not allowed currently (by Measure 37).
> Marla Robison has proposed an 18-home subdivision,
> but her property was zoned agricultural when she
> bought it. Now she’s trying to create 2 homes—which
> Measure 49 would allow.
> 
> CLAIM: The Laraways say in the brochure: "If Measure
> 49 passes, our whole way of life -- as farmers -- as
> we know it, would be gone."
> 
> WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU: The Laraways have
> filed Measure 37 claims to build 144 housing units
> on their farm land: 42 houses on 10.5 acres, 70
> multi-family units on another 10.5 acres, 26 houses
> on another 26 acres, and 6 units on another 34-acre
> parcel.
> 
> CLAIM: The Currys say in the brochure: “If Measure
> 49 goes through
we won’t have anything left at all.
> Measure 49 would just take it all away.”
> 
> WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU: No property would be
> taken away under Measure 49. The Currys are trying
> to build a 110-home subdivision on their property
> even though their voters’ pamphlet statement says
> they just want homes for their kids and grandkids.
> Measure 49 would allow them between 1 and 10 homes.
> 
> CLAIM: Ollie Wilcox says in the brochure: “If
> Measure 49 passes we will lose all our rights – not
> only our rights, but our children’s and
> grandchildren’s.”
> 
> WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU: Measure 49 won’t take
> the Wilcoxes’ rights away. She has proposed a
> 16-home subdivision on 8 acres of rural land.
> Measure 49 will allow her between 1 and 3 homes, and
> will specifically give the same rights to her
> children and grandchildren—rights they don’t
> currently have under Measure 37.
> 
> CLAIM: Jennifer Helberg says of her mother, Mary
> Holtan: “If Measure 49 passes it means my mom can’t
> retire. Under Measure 49, families like ours have to
> go back to square one and even then we’re not
> assured of any rights
I’m worried about her
we all
> are. The farm is all she has.”
> 
> WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU: Mary Holtan has
> applied to divide one lot into 3 parcels and a
> second lot into two – Measure 49 would allow both.
> 
> CLAIM: The Bitzes say in the brochure "We told our
> kids we would give our property to them...We'd like
> to keep our farm for future generations."
> 
> WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU:  Measure 49 will allow
> property rights to transfer to an owner’s children,
> which Measure 37 does not. But the Bitzes don’t need
> Measure 37; under current zoning, Jerald Bitz can
> divide his property into seven lots.
> 
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