The Sonoran Institute has a publication entitled Economic Benefits of Integrating Open Space in Development. Order by calling 520-290-0828. There is a small charge. Also check out the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's web site. They have a number of potentially helpful publications. It is going to be up to Oregon's environmental lawyers, planners, etc.to re-define land economics now. It seems clear to me that a lot of suits will have to be brought under the new amendment alleging that local government approval of a development is a taking of the neighbor's property values. If that strategy is pursued aggressively enough (and it had better be) it will paralyze land use decision making and destroy the effect the proponents of the amendment hoped to achieve, hopefully leading to repeal.
