Weeks after the city of Lake Oswego drew activists’ ire for issuing a de facto ban on public access to Oswego Lake during the week of July 4, the city is making a small concession: nonresidents can now do as they please on the lake for 8 hours Saturday afternoon.
The back-and-forth between the city and public access activists comes on the heels of a court ruling in March that the city can’t restrict public access to the lake.
Prior to the ruling, the only people who could legally access the waterway were residents with shoreline properties — a state of affairs that activists Mark Kramer and Todd Prager challenged in a 13-year legal battle with the city. Clackamas County Judge Kathie Steele ultimately ruled in favor of the plaintiffs…