'It feels unfair': Lake Oswego expected to use eminent domain to force out businesses for new wastewater plant

Lake Oswego needs a new treatment facility and the state-of the-art water treatment plant will be placed in a 6-acre footprint, forcing those businesses out.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Lake Oswego needs a new water treatment facility. The city knows where it wants to put it; the problem is that long-time local businesses reside in that new footprint. 

Because of what’s called “eminent domain,” those businesses will be forced to move. For some, that’s not a realistic option.

“I need a job. I need my job, what I do for my living,” said Bill Erickson, who has anchored his auto repair business on Foothills Road

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