Sighted in today’s
“I’ve been getting calls from California, Idaho, Washington, Alaska and Wisconsin,” said Ross Day, a Portland lawyer for the conservative group Oregonians in Action who co-wrote the law, Ballot Measure 37. “They all want to find out what our secret recipe was to get it passed.” Whatever the benefits of Oregon’s land-use rules, Mr. Day added, “the people paying the cost are property owners.” “If Enron does something like this, people call it theft,” he said. “If Oregon does it, they call it land-use planning.” Apparently, restrictive land-use policies are equivalent to blatant attempts to defraud investors. The mechanical reframing of the issue in terms of Enron takes me back to the days of “Enronomics” in 2001-2002.