Clarke v. Port of Portland

The trial court ruled that plaintiffs’ inverse condemnation complaint failed to state a cause of action.

Plaintiffs alleged that the Port of Portland had adopted a Master Plan for expansion of the Portland Airport under which their property would eventually be condemned; that the Multnomah County Comprehensive Plan was amended to state the plaintiffs’ property “is to be acquired pursuant to The Port’s Master Plan”; that the Port has in fact “acquired property on both sides of the” plaintiffs’ property; that the Port initiated a condemnation proceeding against a portion of plaintiffs’ property,…