Mayor says City will recognize will of voters
Mayor Buck opened yesterday’s City Council meeting with a statement regarding Measure 3-568. While not a formal apology for City Council’s incendiary comments, Mayor Buck vowed to “not bring…
LoveLOParks Steering Committee Condemns City Council’s Rebuke of Voters
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – January 15, 2022 – LoveLOParks Steering Committee issues statements condemning Lake Oswego City Council’s rebuke of Lake Oswego voters for ratifying citizen-initiated…
Council should elevate discussion on park measure
City Councilors contemptuously berating citizens for their majority vote on initiative 3-568 as being stupid and they should feel ashamed exposes more about the Council than they may wish….
Vote for parks is historic moment
With the passage of the citizens’ Measure 3-568, Lake Oswego voters have chosen to leave an everlasting legacy of wilderness to future generations. They have chosen to help in…
Citizen-initiated Measure 3-568 Passes!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 2, 2021 – LoveLOParks announces Citizen-initiated Measure 3-568 passes to enact legal safeguards to limit development in Lake Oswego natural parks….
LoveLOParks: Vote YES on Citizens’ Measure 3-568
On behalf of every volunteer, donor, and 4,800+ petition signers, the LoveLOParks Steering Committee hopes you’ll join us and vote YES on citizen-initiated Measure 3-568 — the only natural…
Let’s keep our promises
As 32+ year residents of Lake Oswego, it pains us to think that we can’t trust Lake Oswego City Council. Rather than work with the community they represent, City…
What would Marjorie do?
In 1993 I purchased the farmstead from Marjorie and John Emery that bordered the 42 acre Cooks Butte Park that they deeded to the City of Lake Oswego in…
Don’t miss chance to protect parks
I am a research scientist with over 25 years of experience examining the many factors that affect water quality. I enthusiastically support ballot measure 3-568 because it places sensible…
Facts and the future
I’ve had several interesting conversations with my young granddaughter where we’ve talked about the upcoming election and the two competing ballot measures regarding Lake Oswego’s natural parks. Recently, after…
Measure 3-568 is gift for the future
“Don’t it always seem to go … You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone …” The notion of “improvements” means “development”, and loosing forever the tiny plots,…
Not confused on measures
My Voters’ Pamphlet and ballot arrived today. I found it surprising the stark contrast between the quality in the explanatory statements, arguments, and endorsements between the two LO natural…
Voters deserve the facts
Did you receiving a text on behalf of Measure 3-575 this week asking to support a citizen-guided initiative to preserve our parks? I experienced a moment of doubt. Of…
Don’t let politicians exploit parks, natural areas
As a 28 year resident of Lake Oswego, please don’t be confused. Don’t let the Lake Oswego politicians exploit our natural parks. We need to protect and preserve these…
Citizens Taking Initiative
Springbrook Park, Canal Acres, Bryant Woods, Cooks Butte, and Stevens Meadows are examples of natural habitats within our neighborhoods resulting from grantors’ foresight to convey development restrictions and/or decades…
No accident
Oregon Wild and the Sierra Club’s Oregon Chapter chose to endorse Citizens’ Measure 3-568. Let that sink in. These organizations are recognized leaders in environmental and conservation efforts. Their…
Don’t be fooled by city measure
They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot! The politicians are up to their old shenanigans. This November there are two measures on the ballot both seemingly to…
Measures couldn’t be more different
One would think that Lake Oswego citizens have two reasonable measures to protect our natural parks. Digging deeper, you’ll find they couldn’t be more different. Measure 3-568, led and…
Save your right to vote
Look at the so called “Nature Park” on Iron Mountain Road next to the Hunt Club. Where is the natural beauty in the large paved parking lot the city…
Look to Woodmont when considering measures
Woodmont Natural Park would be in a more natural state as life-long resident Donald Meyer had intended under citizen-initiated Measure 3-568. The deed included language such as: “be maintained…
Citizens’ measure would fully protect parks
I have done my research into the competing parks measures. 3-568 (citizens’ initiative) was written with the full and clear intent to protect our parks without the influence of…
The Devil’s in the details
LO voters have an important decision on the direction to take to protect our natural parks this November. This isn’t a popularity contest about who we like; it’s about…
Measure 3-568 has integrity
Residents have been working hard for at least 18 months, as a part of a grass roots effort, to get the Citizen’s Measure 3-568 on the ballot. The driving…
Don’t be fooled
We can’t trust the City of LO to protect our natural parks. Three times since 1993 the City has tried to build a large communications tower in Cooks Butte…
Vote to truly protect parks
Initiative 3-568 better protects our natural area parks than the City’s Referendum 3-575. Initiative 3-568 places the current natural park areas into the Charter. Referendum 3-575 causes the natural…
Concrete and asphalt are not the only ways to make an ADA trail
My young adult kids have mobility issues and sometimes they use wheelchairs. Measure 3-568 does NOT conflict with Federal ADA Laws in any manner whatsoever. Measure 3-568, which I…
Stop the Confusion
As 32+ year residents of Lake Oswego, it pains us to think that we can no longer trust the Lake Oswego City Council. Rather than work in concert with…
Officials’ actions on natural parks don’t match words
Do “actions speak louder than words”? Now “misinformation” and “malinformation” are amplified louder. As an environmental scientist, I respectfully ask my fellow citizens to carefully review the Charter language…
Support citizens’ parks measure
The citizens’ Measure 3-568 will provide all our natural parks the same protections that Spring-brook has. It does so by clarifying specific parks by name and extending to these…
Measure would protect LO beauty
600 acres of parkland, 460 acres of natural and open space areas, and our homes surrounded by tall fir trees are leading reasons Money.com cites Lake Oswego as #14…
Rainbow Terrace Endorses Measure 3-568
Rainbow Terrance is a subdivision in the Uplands Neighborhood nestled between Boones Ferry Rd, the tennis center, and Springbrook Park. Many of the residents have a long history advocating…
City referendum is attack on citizen initiative
I am disturbed by the city’s referendum which would strip away Springbrook Park’s charter protection — and preclude this protection to the remaining parks — while professing to be…
Of sparrows, zombie fires and the tipping point
In this week’s LO Review, Pierre Zubrinsky’s Citizen View asks “Does our City Council not yet recognize the severity of the current crisis?” PIERRE ZUBRINSKY’sREADERS’ LETTER With Pierre…
Protect our parks
“There is so little we can count on these days. I’d like to think that walking in our local parks and natural areas is one of them. Getting outdoors,…
Sierra Club’s Oregon Chapter Endorses Measure 3-568
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – September 4, 2021 – LoveLOParks is pleased to announce that, after careful review of Lake Oswego’s two competing natural park measures on…
Does Lake Oswego really want to protect its parks?
In this week’s LO Review, a Letter to the Editor submitted by Jean Eves — a long time Uplands Neighborhood resident and advocate for Springbrook Park — touches upon…
Oregon Wild Endorses Measure 3-568
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – August 24, 2021 – LoveLOParks is pleased to announce that Oregon Wild has endorsed citizen-initiated Measure 3-568. Founded in 1974, Oregon Wild’s…
LoveLOParks Petitions Circuit Court to Review City of Lake Oswego’s Ballot Title
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – August 13, 2021 – On behalf of LoveLOParks, Scott Handley filed a petition with the Clackamas County Circuit Court to review the…
City Council Will Forward Competing Referendum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – August 4, 2021 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is disappointed to announce that on August 3, 2021, Lake Oswego City Council…
Community Members’ Public Comments – RE: Agenda Item- Resolution 21-29
Over 50 Lake Oswego residents sent public comments to today’s City Council meeting asking City Council to reject a City referendum that would compete with our Citizen’s Measure on…
Scott Handley’s Public Comments – RE: Agenda Item- Resolution 21-29
Below are Scott Handley’s public comments asking City Council to reject referring a City referendum to the November 2021 ballot – Agenda item, Resolution 21-29: “Dear Mayor Buck and…
Betsy Wosko’s Public Comments – RE: Agenda Item- Resolution 21-29
Below are Betsy Wosko’s public comments asking City Council to reject referring a City referendum to the November 2021 ballot – Agenda item, Resolution 21-29: “Please do not pass…
Wide Support for Citizen Initiative Petition 2020IN-1
Updated: August 1, 2021 On June 23, 2023, the Clackamas County Elections Office certified that our citizen initiative petition, 2020IN-1, exceeded the 4,365 signatures required thereby qualifying our citizen…
Thanks For Doing This!!
Citizens from all across Lake Oswego have signed our citizen initiative petition, 2020IN-1, to protect our natural parks from development that’s inconsistent with maintaining them as natural habitats. Not…
Evaluating options on park measures
THERESA KOHLHOFF’sREADER’S LETTER The city is considering a referendum against a citizen’s initiative, Love LO Parks. The only park that is presently charter protected is Springbrook. It has been…
Citizen Initiative 2020IN-1 Qualifies for the November 2021 Ballot
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – July 7, 2021 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is pleased to announce that citizen initiative petition 2020IN-1 has obtained enough signatures…
City Council Recognizes & Files 2020IN-1
Per Oregon statute, on July 6, 2021, the Lake Oswego City Council adopted Resolution 21-23 thereby recognizing our citizen initiative petition, 2020IN-1, has qualified for the November ballot with…
Love LO Parks measure will appear on November ballot
Clara Howell’s LO Review article (posted online July 2nd), “Love LO Parks measure will appear on the November ballot,” is a disappointing mischaracterization of our citizen’s initiative that proposes…
Qualified!
Great news! Our citizen initiative petition limiting development in 15 natural parks has been certified by the Clackamas county elections office as achieving the required signature threshold…we are going…
City Council Discusses 2020IN-1
On June 15, 2021, Lake Oswego City Council discussed agenda item “7.3 Proposed Natural Areas Preservation Charter Referendum.” Martha Bennett, the City Manager, presented options before the City regarding our…