Update Nov 2, 2021: Lake Oswego voters approve Measure 3-568!
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Mayor says City will recognize will of voters
January 19, 2022
Mayor Buck opened yesterday’s City Council meeting with a statement regarding Measure 3-568. While not a formal apology for City…
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LoveLOParks Steering Committee Condemns City Council’s Rebuke of Voters
January 15, 2022
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – January 15, 2022 – LoveLOParks Steering Committee issues statements condemning Lake Oswego City…
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Council should elevate discussion on park measure
January 12, 2022
City Councilors contemptuously berating citizens for their majority vote on initiative 3-568 as being stupid and they should feel ashamed…
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Vote for parks is historic moment
November 11, 2021
With the passage of the citizens’ Measure 3-568, Lake Oswego voters have chosen to leave an everlasting legacy of wilderness…
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Citizen-initiated Measure 3-568 Passes!
November 2, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 2, 2021 – LoveLOParks announces Citizen-initiated Measure 3-568 passes to enact legal…
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LoveLOParks: Vote YES on Citizens’ Measure 3-568
October 27, 2021
On behalf of every volunteer, donor, and 4,800+ petition signers, the LoveLOParks Steering Committee hopes you’ll join us and vote…
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Let’s keep our promises
October 27, 2021
As 32+ year residents of Lake Oswego, it pains us to think that we can’t trust Lake Oswego City Council….
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What would Marjorie do?
October 27, 2021
In 1993 I purchased the farmstead from Marjorie and John Emery that bordered the 42 acre Cooks Butte Park that…
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Don’t miss chance to protect parks
October 27, 2021
I am a research scientist with over 25 years of experience examining the many factors that affect water quality. I…
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Facts and the future
October 27, 2021
I’ve had several interesting conversations with my young granddaughter where we’ve talked about the upcoming election and the two competing…
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Measure 3-568 is gift for the future
October 27, 2021
“Don’t it always seem to go … You don’t know what you’ve got ‘till it’s gone …” The notion of…
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Not confused on measures
October 27, 2021
My Voters’ Pamphlet and ballot arrived today. I found it surprising the stark contrast between the quality in the explanatory…
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Voters deserve the facts
October 27, 2021
Did you receiving a text on behalf of Measure 3-575 this week asking to support a citizen-guided initiative to preserve…
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Don’t let politicians exploit parks, natural areas
October 27, 2021
As a 28 year resident of Lake Oswego, please don’t be confused. Don’t let the Lake Oswego politicians exploit our…
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Citizens Taking Initiative
October 20, 2021
Springbrook Park, Canal Acres, Bryant Woods, Cooks Butte, and Stevens Meadows are examples of natural habitats within our neighborhoods resulting…
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No accident
October 13, 2021
Oregon Wild and the Sierra Club’s Oregon Chapter chose to endorse Citizens’ Measure 3-568. Let that sink in. These organizations…
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Don’t be fooled by city measure
October 13, 2021
They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot! The politicians are up to their old shenanigans. This November there…
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Measures couldn’t be more different
October 13, 2021
One would think that Lake Oswego citizens have two reasonable measures to protect our natural parks. Digging deeper, you’ll find…
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Save your right to vote
October 13, 2021
Look at the so called “Nature Park” on Iron Mountain Road next to the Hunt Club. Where is the natural…
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Look to Woodmont when considering measures
October 13, 2021
Woodmont Natural Park would be in a more natural state as life-long resident Donald Meyer had intended under citizen-initiated Measure…
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Citizens’ measure would fully protect parks
October 6, 2021
I have done my research into the competing parks measures. 3-568 (citizens’ initiative) was written with the full and clear…
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The Devil’s in the details
October 6, 2021
LO voters have an important decision on the direction to take to protect our natural parks this November. This isn’t…
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Measure 3-568 has integrity
October 6, 2021
Residents have been working hard for at least 18 months, as a part of a grass roots effort, to get…
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Don’t be fooled
October 6, 2021
We can’t trust the City of LO to protect our natural parks. Three times since 1993 the City has tried…
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Vote to truly protect parks
October 6, 2021
Initiative 3-568 better protects our natural area parks than the City’s Referendum 3-575. Initiative 3-568 places the current natural park…
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Concrete and asphalt are not the only ways to make an ADA trail
October 3, 2021
My young adult kids have mobility issues and sometimes they use wheelchairs. Measure 3-568 does NOT conflict with Federal ADA…
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Stop the Confusion
October 2, 2021
As 32+ year residents of Lake Oswego, it pains us to think that we can no longer trust the Lake…
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Officials’ actions on natural parks don’t match words
September 29, 2021
Do “actions speak louder than words”? Now “misinformation” and “malinformation” are amplified louder. As an environmental scientist, I respectfully ask…
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Support citizens’ parks measure
September 29, 2021
The citizens’ Measure 3-568 will provide all our natural parks the same protections that Spring-brook has. It does so by…
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Measure would protect LO beauty
September 29, 2021
600 acres of parkland, 460 acres of natural and open space areas, and our homes surrounded by tall fir trees…
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Rainbow Terrace Endorses Measure 3-568
September 28, 2021
Rainbow Terrance is a subdivision in the Uplands Neighborhood nestled between Boones Ferry Rd, the tennis center, and Springbrook Park….
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City referendum is attack on citizen initiative
September 22, 2021
I am disturbed by the city’s referendum which would strip away Springbrook Park’s charter protection — and preclude this protection…
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Of sparrows, zombie fires and the tipping point
September 16, 2021
In this week’s LO Review, Pierre Zubrinsky’s Citizen View asks “Does our City Council not yet recognize the severity of…
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Protect our parks
September 16, 2021
“There is so little we can count on these days. I’d like to think that walking in our local parks…
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Sierra Club’s Oregon Chapter Endorses Measure 3-568
September 4, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – September 4, 2021 – LoveLOParks is pleased to announce that, after careful review…
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Does Lake Oswego really want to protect its parks?
August 25, 2021
In this week’s LO Review, a Letter to the Editor submitted by Jean Eves — a long time Uplands Neighborhood…
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Oregon Wild Endorses Measure 3-568
August 24, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – August 24, 2021 – LoveLOParks is pleased to announce that Oregon Wild has…
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LoveLOParks Petitions Circuit Court to Review City of Lake Oswego’s Ballot Title
August 13, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – August 13, 2021 – On behalf of LoveLOParks, Scott Handley filed a petition…
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City Council Will Forward Competing Referendum
August 4, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – August 4, 2021 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is disappointed to announce…
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Community Members’ Public Comments – RE: Agenda Item- Resolution 21-29
August 3, 2021
Over 50 Lake Oswego residents sent public comments to today’s City Council meeting asking City Council to reject a City…
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Scott Handley’s Public Comments – RE: Agenda Item- Resolution 21-29
August 3, 2021
Below are Scott Handley’s public comments asking City Council to reject referring a City referendum to the November 2021 ballot…
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Betsy Wosko’s Public Comments – RE: Agenda Item- Resolution 21-29
August 3, 2021
Below are Betsy Wosko’s public comments asking City Council to reject referring a City referendum to the November 2021 ballot…
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Wide Support for Citizen Initiative Petition 2020IN-1
August 1, 2021
Updated: August 1, 2021 On June 23, 2023, the Clackamas County Elections Office certified that our citizen initiative petition, 2020IN-1,…
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Thanks For Doing This!!
July 15, 2021
Citizens from all across Lake Oswego have signed our citizen initiative petition, 2020IN-1, to protect our natural parks from development…
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Evaluating options on park measures
July 15, 2021
THERESA KOHLHOFF’sREADER’S LETTER The city is considering a referendum against a citizen’s initiative, Love LO Parks. The only park that…
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Citizen Initiative 2020IN-1 Qualifies for the November 2021 Ballot
July 7, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – July 7, 2021 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is pleased to announce…
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City Council Recognizes & Files 2020IN-1
July 6, 2021
Per Oregon statute, on July 6, 2021, the Lake Oswego City Council adopted Resolution 21-23 thereby recognizing our citizen initiative…
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Love LO Parks measure will appear on November ballot
July 2, 2021
Clara Howell’s LO Review article (posted online July 2nd), “Love LO Parks measure will appear on the November ballot,” is…
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Qualified!
June 23, 2021
Great news!Our citizen initiative petition limiting development in 15 natural parks has been certified by the Clackamas county elections office…
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City Council Discusses 2020IN-1
June 15, 2021
On June 15, 2021, Lake Oswego City Council discussed agenda item “7.3 Proposed Natural Areas Preservation Charter Referendum.” Martha Bennett, the…
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Every Signature’s Important
June 9, 2021
“It’s surely our responsibility to do everything within our power to create a planet that provides a home not just…
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Don’t take LO natural areas for granted
October 7, 2020
CLAIRE PUCHY’SCITIZEN’s VIEW The recent wildfires are a reminder of how precious our environment is to humans, as well as…
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Act locally, impact globally
October 7, 2020
MEGAN BUSBEE’SREADER’S LETTER Nausea, tightened chest, headaches and anxiety were my symptoms from the relentless toxic wildfire smoke that eerily…
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The debate is over, action is required now
September 30, 2020
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes…
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Woodmont A Natural Park No More
August 16, 2020
Shocking photos of Woodmont Natural Park, located in the Forest Highlands Neighborhood, shared by a neighbor who is disappointed at…
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Owners vs. Caretakers
April 15, 2020
LO citizens: I encourage all of you over the next few days/weeks to take some time to reflect upon the…
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Happy 45th Birthday Cooks Butte Nature Park!
April 4, 2020
On April 4, 1975, John and Marjorie Emery deeded the 42 acres we know as Cooks Butte Nature Park to…
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Reader’s Letter- The parks, the people and the future
March 12, 2020
LESLIE EMERY’SREADERS’ LETTER I am one of three sons of Marjorie Emery. It was Marjorie whose profound love of nature,…
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Lake Oswego’s Cooks’ Butte (VIDEO)
March 5, 2020
(What mysteries await us at the top?) Just on the other side of Stafford Hamlet… In this episode of Around…
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Dear Neighbors…
February 6, 2020
Dear Neighbors, Last September, our Palisades neighbors were confronted with insurmountable odds to protect Cook’s Butte for the 3rd time…
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Save LO Parks initiative: Remember McCall
February 6, 2020
Betsy Wosko reminds us about Oregon’s Comprehensive Plan and its priority for community involvement as a necessary balancing force against…
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Charter protection shouldn’t be exclusive to Springbrook
January 30, 2020
The Friends of Springbrook Park Board’s letter in the LO Review this week, “Please do not support LoveLOParks charter petition,”…
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Our Numbers Tell A Different Story
January 24, 2020
Doug McKean’s Citizen’s View in this week’s LO Review, “Opposition grows to initiative by LoveLOParks,” is another attempt to mislead…
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Our Charter Amendment Is The Better Way
January 17, 2020
Nancy Gronowski’s Citizen’s View, “Don’t be fooled by LoveLOParks: There’s a better way”, misrepresents our citizen-led initiative with misleading commentary…
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Our Community Should Decide
January 16, 2020
Rosemary DiCandilo offers a perspective on Lake Oswego’s natural areas and builds a case to protect them from future City…
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Citizen’s View- We must protect our natural areas
January 9, 2020
Scott Handley, a Lake Oswego resident and the chief petitioner for the community-led prospective initiative 2020IN-1, outlines the necessity to…
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Letter to the Editor- Welcome 2020 by helping protect LO natural areas
January 9, 2020
Kirsten Sommer offers the community to start the new year on a positive note and protect Lake Oswego’s natural areas…
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Tues, 12/17 @ 3:00 PM: Citizen Comment
December 17, 2019
Scott Handley, Chief Petitioner, introduced the community’s prospective petition initiative, 2020IN-1, to City Council. After Scott’s comments, several Councilors asked…
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Citizen Initiative Petition 2020IN-1 Receives Approval to Circulate
December 12, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – December 12, 2019 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is pleased to announce…
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Prospective Petition for a Local Initiative Meets Constitutional Provisions
November 14, 2019
LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 14, 2019 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is pleased to announce that Lake Oswego’s…
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Emery’s Rescind Consent for Telecommunications Tower at Cooks Butte
November 6, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 6, 2019 – Save Cooks Butte announced two major developments at our…
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