Dorothy English Redux

June 28, 2010

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Did you see THIS op ed in the Zero? Here’s an  excerpt from a piece by a man named Jim Crawford about the plundering of private property continuing unabated even after the Dorothy English smack down from the Oregon Supreme Court.
Crawford writes that in much the same way Portland stole land from owners to appropriate Forest Park (making it too expensive to continue to own) and how Multnomah County and Metro did the same against Dorothy English, planning poobahs are doing the same thing in NW Portland:

These demands have become so extreme for the North Bethany area that some estimates of the SDCs exceed $1 million per acre, which is about double what the land might have been worth at the peak of the housing market.
The concept planning and zoning process has been even more abusive for the landowners of Bonnie Slope. After refusing to even begin the process for many, Multnomah County and the city of Portland and their hired consultants produced a collection of maps and studies that were inaccurate and misleading. Much of this misinformation has since been corrected after one of the landowners hired his own consultants to rebut it. But the bureaucrats and policy-makers — aided and abetted by activists from groups such as the Friends of Forest Park, Outer Northwest Neighborhood Association and the Bicycle Transportation Alliance — have dominated the concept planning and zoning process.
Tell ’em where you saw it. Http://www.victoriataft.com