I remember driving through Oregon years ago and seeing bumper stickers that read, "Don't Californicate Oregon" and "Keep Moving, Stranger." I guess the folks up there have finally decided to welcome the California developers and LA refugees.
I'm a Oregon refugee, born and raised there. I've moved to the reddest state in the union, Utah.
This is a complicated issue, and I worry that this law oversimplifies it. I agree with the law in theory, but say for example, I want to build a strip joint next to a school. Do I get compensation because the county/city/state won't let me do that?
What really needs to happen is a move back to constitutional government. "The powers NOT DELEGATED to the United States [the feds] by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." (10th amendment)
Goverment owns likes 40% of all land in the US and regulates the other 60%. Welfare, social security, mediscare, and a whole host of other programs are not to be administered by the feds.
In flyover country, public ownership of land can be as high as 90%. This drives up the price of land. All land ought to be private property except roads, bridges, miltary installations, property for government buildings, ports, etc.
I used to live in California. I can tell you its a disaster.
"I guess the folks up there have finally decided to welcome the California developers and LA refugees."
Not really, this has much more to do with the regulations that liberals want to pass to prevent people from moving to the country. It's "Smart Growth". In Oregon, these liberals have essentially made it impossible to build on your own land outside the 'green boundaries' around the cities. It's a form of socialism pure and simple. And, it's not confined to Oregon. Let these people have their way and we'll all be living in high rise apartment buildings using mass transit and tearing up the road system.