"There is a shameless threat to our environment and to the whole quality of life, an unfettered despoiling of the land. Sagebrush subdivisions, coastal ‘condomania,’ and the ravenous rampage of suburbia in the Willamette Valley all threaten to mock Oregon´s status as the environmental model for the nation. We are dismayed that we have not stopped misuse of the land, our most valuable finite natural resource.
"We are in dire need of a state land-use policy, new subdivision laws, and new standards for planning and zoning by cities and counties. The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism: that unlimited and unregulated growth leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life."
Governor Tom McCall, to the 1973 Legislative Assembly, January 8, 1973.
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How about a planning system that can deal fairly with individual property rights through user fees, markets, and other incentives rather than through regulatory taking and stealing. Our antiquated planning system deals dishonestly with people. Let's scrap it.
It's really need about a state policy for environment. Some of us at millionairematch.com planned to donate money for reforesting. I wonder if there are no policy for protecting the environment our efforts will in vain.
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