Thank you for caring about your neighborhood enough to get involved. 1000 Friends of Oregon is a non-profit organization advocating responsible land use planning across the state. Allocating Our Limited Resources With more than 10,000 local land use decisions being made each year, we must focus our limited resources very carefully.
Litigation is a small part of our work and undertaken only as a last resort.
Unfortunately, this means we can rarely get involved in local issues, such as permit decisions or zone changes that may have significant impacts, but on a limited number of properties. On a few occasions, we participate directly in a local issue if we see an important legal precedent at stake, or a site of extraordinary statewide significance under threat. Resources You Can Use We can offer you recommendations and other resources, however, like our Citizen's Guides to land use proceedings and appeals. These two guides can help you participate effectively in local hearings, and undertake an appeal to LUBA, if necessary. Many citizens have waged successful appeals on their own using these guidelines.