Impact
As of March 12, 2007, 7,562 Measure 37 claims for compliance payments or land use waivers had been filed spanning 750,898 acres (3,038.78 km2) statewide in Oregon.
The claims filed included mobile home parks in sacred native burial grounds, shopping malls in farmland, and gravel pit mines in residential neighborhoods. There are no provisions in the law that public notice must be provided to neighboring property owners when a claim is filed. Because municipalities can not afford the billions in compensation, the laws were waived in every case but one.
Claims filed in Portland, Oregon, by December 4, 2006, totalled over $250 million. Many of these claims were filed by major area land developers.
Outside of Oregon, some contend that Measure 37 may have decreased support for national anti-urban sprawl legislation.
Read more about this topic: Oregon Ballot Measures 37 (2004) And 49 (2007)
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