Does Measure 37 permit the government to take a waiver granted under Measure 37 away in the future?
No. Once a regulation is waived by the government, the regulation is waived for the current owner and all subsequent owners of the property. At least one local government is trying to avoid the will of the people by inserting a provision into its local ordinances that requires a property owner to remove any development which the local government just granted under Measure 37 as soon as the property is transferred. For example, if the local government granted a property owner the right to build a home, they would force that property owner to tear down that home if the property owner wanted to sell that home. This is clearly contrary to the language of Measure 37, and is the type of argument that only a local government lawyer would love. These types of regulations fly in the face of the collective voice with which voters spoke on Measure 37. The whole point of Measure 37 was to restore rights a property owner had taken from them as a result of government regulation, rights that included
