BOLI insists private developers must pay more because public dollars funded infrastructure.
BY NIGEL JAQUISS
Oregon Journalism Project
On a rainy mid-November afternoon, the only sound coming from vacant building lots clustered along the Willamette River is the insistent honking of a flock of geese.
Gone are the hardhats, toolbelts and backhoes that for the past couple of years marked the beginning of the long-awaited conversion of industrial land along the river to…