Oregon: City votes to give citizens more power
The Damascus City Council voted unanimously tonight to file a ballot initiative to amend the city’s charter to offer more resident power over the city’s future comprehensive plan and similar plans and ordinances. With the initiative on the ballot, Damascus residents will vote on whether to add an amendment to the Damascus Charter that would “require voter ratification of any ordinance or plan adopted by City Council before such ordinance or plan is submitted to Metro, Land Conservation and Development Commission or the Department of Land Conservation and Development or their successors, retroactive to March 1, 2011.”