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Bull Mountain, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Bull Mountain is located mostly on a hill for which the community is named. It is bordered on the east by Tigard, on the south by King City, and Beaverton lies to the north. The north-eastern part of the Bull Mountain hill is now within the Tigard city limits, as the city has steadily annexed portions of the unincorporated region on its boundary. In United States law, a region of land is unincorporated if it is not a part of any municipality. ...
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Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area Ranked 9th - Total 98,466 sq mi (255,026 km²) - Width 260 miles (420 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 2. ...
Tigard (IPA: ) is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. ...
King City is a city located in Washington County, Oregon. ...
Beaverton is a city located in Washington County, Oregon, seven miles west of Portland in the Tualatin River Valley. ...
Annexation and incorporation controversy
The Bull Mountain area has been considered candidate for annexation by the City of Tigard, which includes Bull Mountain in its ultimate planned boundary. The debate over Bull Mountain's future has been rather acrimonious. Ceremonies during the annexation of Hawaii. ...
In 2004 Tigard proposed to annex the entire area under Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS)-195 (Urban Service Provider Annexation method) instead of the more common ORS-222 method. At the time, ORS-195 was ambiguous regarding the method of counting votes, and Tigard had planned to use a single combined voting method were the unincorporated votes would be counted with the votes of the city voters, and thus the unincorporated voters would be heavily outnumbered. This variation of "gerrymandering" outraged most of the residents of the unincorporated area, and triggered a vigorous campaign against the annexation. A group called "Friends of Bull Mountain" was formed, they retained legal counsel Larry Derr and challenged the combined voting method under the provisions of ORS-268 requiring separate double majority vote counting for annexations within the Portland Metro Urban Growth Boundary.[1] 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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In the face of this legal challenge Tigard relented and allowed the double majority vote counting method.[2] As a result, the annexation measure [34-98] failed, a majority of city voters (64.71%)[3] favored the annexation, but 88.62% of unincorporated voters rejected the annexation.[3]
As is common in such annexation disputes, a key issue was taxes; many Bull Mountain residents thought that annexation with Tigard would increase their property taxes without a significant increase in public services, and that Tigard was only interested in annexation to expand its tax base. They also felt the ORS-195 combined voting method was "taxation without representation". Some residents of Tigard have complained in response that Bull Mountain residents use Tigard city parks and other services without paying for them. Property tax, millage tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the property being taxed. ...
However, Washington County has been actively encouraging suburban parts of the county to join cities, in order to limit the need for county-provided urban-level services. After the defeat of the referendum, Tigard has been examining small annexations on a case-by-case basis.
Many residents advocated incorporation in order to allow Bull Mountain residents to control their own destiny (and avoid further annexation by Tigard), in spring of 2006 a petition for a ballot measure was filed. In local government, incorporation occurs when municipalities such as cities, towns, townships, villages, and boroughs become self-governing entities under the laws of the state or province in which they are located. ...
The Washington County Board of Commissioners voted in August 2006 to allow the incorporation ballot initiative to proceed. A feasibility study was conducted by ECONorthwest and it was determined that Bull Mountain has a sufficient tax base to fund city government and services for its residents. The City of Tigard protested the city boundaries, noting that Tigard-owned properties were included in the proposed City of Bull Mountain, and asked that Washington County adjust the boundaries. That request was denied. Tigard also filed a request to annex 61.5 acres which are part of the proposed Bull Mountain boundaries. Many in Bull Mountain complained that Tigard's annexation attempt is little more than an 11th-hour attempt to acquire a large segment of land without due respect for the incorporation process and proposed incorporation boundary. The effort was challenged legally in the Washington County courts. This legal challenge was rejected by the state Land Use Board of Appeals: “the city had not unlawfully obtained consent to the annexation,” and the petition for appeal was dismissed by the Oregon Court of Appeals. Friends of Bull Mountain v. City of Tigard, 208 Or.App. 189, 144 P.3d 965 (2006). ECONorthwest is a consultancy based in the U.S. state of Oregon. ...
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The referendum on the incorporation question was on the November 2006 ballot and failed by a vote of 1,734 to 1,887. [1] 67 die and about 300,000 people are affected by floods in Ethiopias Somali Region of Ogaden after the Shabelle River bursts its banks. ...
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