Hood River County ballots will be mailed out Friday for the Nov. 6 special election.

There are two state measures and no local issues on the ballot.

The Secretary of State’s voter pamphlet summarizes the two measures as:

Modifies Measure 37 to give landowners with claims the right to build homes as compensation for land use restrictions imposed after they acquired their properties.

Claimants may build up to three homes if previously allowed when they acquired their properties; four to 10 homes if they can document reductions in property values that justify additional homes; but may not build more than three homes on high-value farmlands, forestlands and groundwater-restricted lands.

The measure increases the tax on cigarettes by 84.5 cents per pack, and increases the tax on other tobacco products. The measure will fund the Healthy Kids Program created by the 2007 legislature to provide affordable health care for uninsured children.

The measure will fund tobacco prevention programs, safety net clinics, rural health care and health care for Oregon’s lowest income families and individuals through the Oregon Health Plan.

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