Judge rules public access must be granted for Oswego Lake, but Lake Oswego Corporation says it will appeal

Judge rules public access must be granted for Oswego Lake, but Lake Oswego Corporation says it will appeal

Todd Prager was a planning commissioner for the city of Lake Oswego in 2011 when he discovered that the body of water that defined their community was in fact not a private lake, but rather a navigable public waterway. He says no one seemed to want to act on this information. The city went in the opposite direction, passing an ordinance in 2012 that barred the public from “trespassing” to the water from the three lakeside public parks. That’s wh…