For the past couple of decades at least, Oregon has served as a petri dish for breeding bad governing fads. As the place where old hippies seem to congregate, it has served as a testing ground for some of the most Draconian smart growth and “new urbanism” ideas out there — making it a mecca of sorts for the better-living-through-master-planning set, but a war zone for property owners. All this command and control spawned a backlash several years back, when Oregonians approved Measure 37. It required that property owners be compensated when a land control regulation diminished their property value....