Oregon Ballot Measure 63 (2008)

Measure 63
Exempts specified property owners from building permit requirements for improvements valued at/under 35,000 dollars.
Results
Votes %
Yes 784,376 45.79%
No 928,721 54.21%
Total votes 1,713,097 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 85.7%
Results by county
  
  
Source: Oregon Secretary of State [1]

Oregon Ballot Measure 63 (IRR 21) was an initiated state statute that appeared on the November 4, 2008 general election ballot in Oregon. It would have allowed homeowners to make improvements costing less than $35,000 to their home/real estate without first obtaining a building permit.

Background

On May 5, 2008, the Oregon Secretary of State announced that the measure had sufficient signatures to qualify for the November ballot. 82,769 valid signatures were required, and the initiative's supporters had turned in 83,869 valid signatures, or 65.65% of the 127,755 total signatures that were submitted. During the campaign to collect signatures, the pro-initiative committee paid Democracy Direct, a petition drive management company, a little under $40,000 to collect signatures for the measure.[2]

Specific provisions

If the measure had passed, the following provisions would have been enacted:

Estimated fiscal impact

The state's Financial Estimate Committee prepares estimated fiscal impact statements for any ballot measures that will appear on the ballot. The estimate prepared by this committee for Measure 62 says:

Supporters

The measure's chief petitioners were Alan Grosso and Bill Sizemore. The name of the officially-filed committee supporting the initiative was the "Fairness in Home Improvement PAC".

Arguments in favor of Measure 63

Notable arguments made in favor of Measure 63 included:

Donors in favor of Measure 63

Funds for signature collection for the proposal were donated by a group called Hire Calling Public Affairs, which was affiliated with Richard Wendt, founder of Jeld-Wen, a Klamath Falls manufacturing company.[6]

Opponents

Defend Oregon was opposed to Measure 63, as was a group called Oregonians Against Unsafe Housing.

Arguments against Measure 63

Notable arguments made against Measure 63 included:

Donors opposing Measure 63

Defend Oregon, as a committee, fought seven different ballot measures, and supported two others. As a result, it is not possible to discern how much of its campaign money was going specifically to defeat Measure 59. Altogether, the group raised over $6 million in 2008.[9]

Major donations to the Defend Oregon group as of October 8 included:[10]

Newspaper endorsements

Here is how Oregon's major newspapers endorsed on the measure.

Newspapers Yes No
The Oregonian No
Medford Mail-Tribune No
Statesman Journal No
Bend Bulletin No
Eugene Register-Guard No
Daily Astorian No
East Oregonian No
Corvallis Gazette Times No
Coos Bay The World No
Willamette Week No
Yamhill Valley News Register No
Gresham Outlook No

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