Legal Opinion
Petterson v. Resor
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided October 4, 1971No. Civ. 71-283PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SOLOMON, Judge:
The Port of Portland (Port) adopted a comprehensive plan to improve and expand the Portland International Airport (Airport) by enlarging the airport terminal and by constructing industrial, commercial, recreational, and highway facilities. The ultimate cost of these improvements will exceed 100 million dollars.
A small but essential part of the work will be to extend and relocate a runway over a fill to be constructed in what is now the South Slough of the Columbia River. To construct the fill, the Port proposed to remove all or portions of three small islands by…
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