Professionals
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Carrie Richter represents business, community, and government entities in land use planning and municipal law. She has successfully argued cases before the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA), the Oregon Supreme Court, the Oregon Court of Appeals and the New Mexico Supreme Court. Ms. Richter acts as deputy city attorney for Oregon City, advising the city in many contentious planning issues, most recently five challenges to master planning for areas recently added to the city's urban growth boundary.
With an M.S. in Historic Preservation, she has a passion for historic preservation and planning principles that complement her skills in representing her clients. Ms. Richter serves on a number of local and national organizations and has a zeal for serving her clients and community.
When she's not helping her clients, arguing in front of Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals, or donating her time to local causes including affordable housing, she is speaking or writing on Oregon's unique land use laws and planning for tomorrow's development initiatives. She contributes to a monthly column in the Daily Journal of Commerce - Oregon and frequently lectures on Oregon’s land use procedures and substance across the country.
Professional Activities
- Adjunct Professor, Land Use Law, Lewis & Clark Law School and the Portland State University Center for Urban Studies, 2009-present
- Member, American Planning Association Amicus Committee, 2009-present
- Secretary-Treasurer, American Planning Association, Planning and Law Chapter, 2008-2009; Member, 2005-present
- Commissioner, City of Portland Landmarks Commission, 2006-present; Vice-Chair, 2008-present
- Member, Oregon State Bar CLE Committee, Real Estate and Land Use sections, 2000-present
Publications
- "RLUIPA Issues Continue to Pop Up, 10 Years Later," The Daily Journal of Commerce, June 10, 2010
- "Impact of Measure 49 Still Hazy," Daily Journal of Commerce - Oregon, December 9, 2009.
- "Group is Content to Accept Climate Change," Daily Journal of Commerce - Oregon, November 11, 2009.
- "Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends," Daily Journal of Commerce - Oregon, October 7, 2009.
- "Beach Dispute Heads for Highest Court," Daily Journal of Commerce - Oregon, September 9, 2009.
- "Getting to the Blight of the Matter," Daily Journal of Commerce - Oregon, August 12, 2009.
- "Darkness Over the Land: Measure 37 and the Oregon Planning Program, Planning Lawyer's View of Measure 37," Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Spring 2006.
- "Out of the Chaos: Towards a National System of Land Use Procedures," 34 Urban Lawyer 449, 2002.
- "Out of the Chaos: Towards a National System of Land-Use Procedures," 34 Urban Lawyer 449, 2002.
