Comprehensive land-use planning such as we have in Oregon prevents the kind of problem that your recent story “Death, and taxes” addresses (HCN, 8/18/08). Agricultural and timber land is just that, and where it is located does not affect its property tax value. Having farmland adjacent to urban areas does not have to result in […]
Richard van Pelt
Posted inAugust 21, 2006: The Lure of the Lawn
Land is not chattel
Your otherwise excellent article on Measure 37 omitted one area that has cried for rebuttal — the term “property rights” (HCN, 7/24/06: Taking Liberties). All land in the United States (with the possible exception of tribal lands) comes as a conveyance from the government. That grant came and comes with strings, of which there are four: […]