There are people who have been harmed by changing rules and changing laws. The takings issue which is what this is part of has been a national subject, and there have been efforts to devise measures like this in Congress, efforts to devise it in other states. The idea being that when the government does anything to hurt your value of your property, you should be able to get recompensed for it. You should be made whole. On a practical basis, nobody's ever sure what that means.
Nobody knows if that's right, if that's too low, if that's too high.
It's also retroactive in a sense. I mean, it says that you bought your house 25 years ago and then a law, a regulation got imposed, you can go back. If they never have before. It's part of the movement as David said to try to make government be the bad guy in terms of reducing property values, in terms of changing the rules on some people and reducing the value on their property. I think the most difficult parted of the challenge they're going to have, though, is addressing the questions of what this would do to Oregon's land use laws.