Stacey v. Myers

This ballot title review proceeding brought under ORS 250.085(2) concerns the Attorney General’s certified ballot title for a proposed initiative measure that the Secretary of State has denominated as Initiative Petition 45 (2008). The proposed measure, which we describe in greater detail below, would permit owners of land zoned for exclusive farm use to build one (or, in some circumstances, two) single-family residences where current zoning restrictions generally prohibit such building.

Petitioner is an elector who timely submitted written comments to the Secretary of State concerning the…