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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
'Ball rolling' on land rights move
Farm Bureau files property initiative
The Washington Farm Bureau filed a property rights initiative Tuesday requiring government agencies to consider how regulations damage a landowner's ability to use private property and to pursue voluntary conservation programs.
The initiative will be updated with more detail after a Farm Bureau meeting next month. Officials said they wanted to get the ball rolling so they could start collecting the 235,000 signatures necessary to put the Property Fairness Initiative on the November ballot.
Environmental groups have been gearing up to fight an initiative similar to Measure 37 that Oregon voters passed in 2004, which requires governments to compensate landowners or waive environmental regulations.
Conservation groups call it a giveaway to developers and others who want to skirt land-use rules protecting natural habitats and rural communities.
The Washington Farm Bureau initiative doesn't address the compensation issue, but a more detailed bill with nearly identical language introduced in Olympia last week does.
It would require governments that pursue regulations that limit the use of property -- such as development-free buffers around streams or wetlands -- to pay landowners for damage.
Because final details haven't been settled, the initiative that will go before voters might look different from that legislation, Farm Bureau spokesman Dean Boyer said.
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