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

[David Morelli]

Thanks, it is nice when someone can do the digging for the background  
on the campaign literature.

David

On Oct 22, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Bonnie Combs wrote:

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> --- Gerik Kransky <gerik at friends.org> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>> Please forward this message to a friend.
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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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