Valuable private land requires realistic payment from City.
When the City of Portland decided to “take” a portion Dick and Gayanne Courter’s property for a future water tower, they offered as “just compensation” a fraction of the value of the property — the last remaining large parcel of developable land in Portland’s West Hills. That’s when they called us. After a hotly contested lawsuit in which the City also sued Gayanne’s 95-year-old mother, Kelly Clark and the OCC trial team won a jury verdict that was nearly five times the settlement offer, along with a requirement that the City pay the Courter’s attorney fees.