Ronald Salzer and his wife Christie support Measure 49 as a way to fix the development excesses careening out of control with Measure 37 claims.

"I voted for Measure 37, back in the day, but it didn't turn out the way it was intended," Ronald says.

Right near the Salzer home is a proposed development of 258 homes. "The roads won't support it. The bridge in Carver (over the Clackamas River) won't support it. The schools won't support it," Ronald says. A new elementary school opened just a few years ago and already is overcrowded with children in portable classrooms, Ronald says. If traffic from 258 new homes is added to the two-lane lane country road, travel would be dangerous and slow, he says. The wells from the new homes would tap into the same aquifer as current homes and farms "we would all have to dig new wells," he says. Neighbors all around the area are against this development.

Ronald knows that this kind of development is happening all over Oregon as a result of Measure 37. "It is not a good thing for Oregon," he says, "it takes our urban growth boundaries and shoves them in the ground. It will change the character of Oregon."

That is why Ronald and his wife Christie support Measure 49. "I think 49 is the way to go. The developer can have 3 or 4 new homes, and that won't hurt much. It is a good compromise."