Reform land use to make it fair and just for all
Yamhill County commissioner shares his thoughts on creating a balanced land use system
One foundation of society is property rights: the right to do what you want with your land. The flipside is the right to not have a neighbor s protected activities extend past their boundaries onto your land or to land held in trust (rivers, air, roads, parks).
In Oregon, the laws that govern where activities and development are allowed are land use. At their heart, the land use laws are about respecting property rights and protecting neighbors from impacts of adjacent activities in order to protect our green spaces and commercial activities and provide certainty to developers and landowners as they change the use of their land.