From Cliff.Voliva at state.or.us Tue Sep 9 10:45:27 2008 From: Cliff.Voliva at state.or.us (Cliff Voliva) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:45:27 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD References: <48BD58900200002300012AE1@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BD62280200002300012AF1@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BD62700200002300012AF4@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BE51250200002300012B14@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BE51600200002300012B17@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BE560A0200002300012B23@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BEBBB40200002300012BBF@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BEBBC00200002300012BC2@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BFA7610200002300012BDF@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BFA80A0200002300012BE2@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BFB2B10200002300012BE6@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48BFB5EE0200002300012BE9@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C0FD040200002300012C36@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C103150200002300012C3B@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C104F90200002300012C3E@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C4F3310200002300012C8C@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C4F73A0200002300012C93@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C4F79A0200002300012C96@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C4F9B00200002300012C99@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C4FB480200002300012CA1@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C4FCA10200002300012CA9@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C501090200002300012CB9@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C501D70200002300012CBC@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C62FB90200002300012CF6@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C633CF0200002300012CF9@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C634200200002300012CFC@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C634910200002300012CFF@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C640AA0200002300012D02@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C652420200002300012D05@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <48C653C70200002300012D09@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> Message-ID: <48C6534E.0046.0023.0@lcd.state.or.us> Welcome to the Land Use News email list! Land Use News is an electronic news clipping service provided by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development. Land Use News emphasizes local reporting and commentary on land use in Oregon and other states. (Measure 49 articles have headlines in ALL CAPS.) The links to copyrighted news stories in Land Use News are not archived by DLCD, and the archiving policies of these sources vary. The stories, if available, reside on the site of the original news source. Please direct requests for archived stories, or permission to reprint them, to the original news source. Past Land Use News weekly emails can be found here: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/landuse-news/ Anyone can subscribe to the free service by visiting this site: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/landuse-news ____________________________________________________________ Sept. 9: (Statesman Journal) Salem OKs buying part of golf course for flood control http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080909/NEWS/809090323/1001 Salem City Council approved Monday night to buy a portion of the Battle Creek Golf Course site. The $3.5 million purchase will buy 40 acres in the southern half of the former golf course. City leaders intend to turn the property into a flood control and environmental enhancement project... Sept. 9: (OPB News) Mine Owners Resume Legal Battle In Southern Oregon http://news.opb.org/article/3006-mine-owners-resume-legal-battle-southern-oregon/ A landowner in the city of Jacksonville, near Medford, has sued Jackson County in state and federal court over a proposed mining operation... Sept. 9: (Bend Bulletin) Nitrate rule spurs annexation effort http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080909/NEWS01/809090430/1001/NEWS01&nav_category= In an attempt to avoid complying with a new ordinance that regulates septic systems in south Deschutes County, one resident recently launched an effort to annex portions of land into the city of La Pine... Sept. 9: (Bend Bulletin) Bend gets a look at 3 potential UGB plans http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080909/NEWS01/809090438/1001/NEWS01&nav_category= Bend?s urban growth boundary expansion began to take shape Monday evening as city planning officials unveiled three proposed alternatives to a standing room-only crowd at a meeting of the Bend Planning Commission... Sept. 9: (Bend Bulletin) Judge calls CEC actions ?egregious? http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080909/NEWS01/809090421/1001/NEWS01&nav_category= Calling Redmond-based Central Electric Cooperative?s conduct ?inexcusable,? ?contemptuous and egregious,? a Deschutes County judge has ordered the company to pay more than $50,000 in legal fees to a Sisters landowner and threatened to cut the company?s court case off at the knees... Sept. 8: (The Dalles Chronicle) Land use plans draw Mosier concerns http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2008/09/news09-08-08-01.shtml The Wasco County Planning Commission has ruffled a few feathers around Mosier with its latest amendments... Sept. 8: (Medford Mail Tribune) Opp Mine owners sue county http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/NEWS/809080308 JACKSONVILLE - Opp Mine owners have again filed suit against Jackson County, claiming that decisions to deny them historical use of their land has resulted in a taking of their property without payment of just compensation... Sept. 8: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Gresham forms city?s first design commission http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/09/08/Gresham-forms-citys-first-design-commission-Architect-Rick-Potestio-will-lead-group-in-its-first-tas The future of building design in the city of Gresham may be turning a corner, as the city forms its first design commission... Sept. 8: (AP, Coos Bay World) Roseburg Costco site faces new appeals http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/09/08/news/doc48c1e07e6ec44373178717.txt ROSEBURG (AP) - Two new appeals have been filed against a proposed Costco Wholesale site in Roseburg. The appeals were filed by the attorney representing former Douglas County Commissioner Joyce Morgan... Sept. 8: (Bend Bulletin) Planned resort near Crescent to get hearing http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/NEWS01/809080373/1001/NEWS01&nav_category= Residents and others who want to weigh in on a proposal to build near Crescent what could be Central Oregon?s largest destination resort will have a chance Tuesday, when Klamath County holds a public hearing... Sept. 7: (Editorial, Bend Bulletin) Affordable housing is not just more housing http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/NEWS01/809080314/1050/OPIN&nav_category= The city of Bend?s affordable housing fund has already been diverted to one questionable purpose - paying lawyers to defend the city?s flawed mobile home park ordinance... Sept. 7: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Nature-area proposal goes to council http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2008/09/07/news/local/1loc02_natureproposal.txt Some residents of North Albany have been working on turning the site of a proposed subdivision along East Thornton Lake into a nature area instead, and on Monday the city council will be asked if it?s interested in pursuing such a plan... Sept. 6: (McMinnville News-Register) Developer wins city council audience http://www.newsregister.com/article/20622-developer-wins-city-council-audience Repeated discouragement from the city council and its planning staff notwithstanding, local developer Alan Roodhouse wants to revamp the development plan for industrial-zoned land along Three Mile Lane. And he wants to do it his way... Sept. 5: (Capital Press) E. Idaho group wants court to look at wind farms http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=801&ArticleID=44320&TM=47020.99 BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) - A limited partnership in southeastern Idaho has requested a judicial review of the Bingham County commissioners' approval of two wind farms... Sept. 5: (Bend Bulletin) Debate over planned resort in Crook County to continue http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/NEWS01/809050432/1001/NEWS01&nav_category= The Crook County Planning Commission declined to decide on the fate of a proposed destination resort at its meeting Wednesday night but plans to take up the issue again when it meets Tuesday... Sept. 4: (Coos Bay World) Coquille works on development deal for old mill site http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/09/04/news/doc48c026142b581793092170.txt COQUILLE - The city of Coquille is in the beginning stages of working out a deal with Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative Inc. for the sale and development of a 2.67-acre piece of the old Georgia-Pacific mill site... Sept. 4: (East Oregonian) Finding transmission lines solutions http://www.eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=82261&TM=41968.24 Giant wind turbines are already dotting much of the Eastern Oregon landscape. And as they continue to multiply, transmission lines are sure to follow... Sept. 4: (AP, Corvallis Gazette-Times) Oregon farm profits hit $1.5 billion record http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/09/04/news/community/4loc19_farmprofits.txt SALEM (AP) - Farm profits in Oregon have hit a record of nearly $1.5 billion. The Oregon Department of Agriculture says net income for farms was $1.48 billion in 2007 compared to the previous record of $1.21 billion in 2004... Sept. 4: (Editorial, The Oregonian) The winds of change http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1220491513280020.xml&coll=7 America remains desperate to free itself from the tyranny of foreign oil. Oregon is showing the way. No state stands ahead of us in promoting the development of alternative energy... Sept. 3: (Daily Astorian) Sign code changes sent to Planning Commission http://www.dailytidings.com/2008/0903/stories/0903_council.php The Downtown Task Force's recommendations for relaxing the city sign code are headed to the Ashland Planning Commission for review... Sept. 3: (Curry County Reporter) Tidewater gravel mining site application denied http://www.currycountyreporter.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=3880 Tidewater Contractor's request for a conditional use permit to mine gravel, and construct a processing facility five miles up the Rogue near the Old Mill Site was rejected by the Curry County Planning Commission... Sept. 3: (The Oregonian) Plan to annex Oregon City golf course faces hurdle http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/122040691910030.xml&coll=7 OREGON CITY -- A state Land Use Board of Appeals opinion has put into question whether a proposal to annex the 120-acre Oregon City Golf Course tract will appear on the November ballot. The proposal was defeated in March... Sept. 3: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Hillsdale to focus on town center development http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/09/03/Hillsdale-to-focus-on-town-center-development Portland?s Bureau of Planning will hold three public meetings in the coming months to get public input on developing Hillsdale?s town center... Sept. 3: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Neighbors push to downsize condo project http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/09/03/Neighbors-push-to-downsize-condo-project-Neighborhood-association-developer-squareoff-over-height-of After two years of battling, members of the Irvington Community Association say they are close to prevailing in their effort to downsize a proposed development called the Irvington Squire... Sept. 2: (Daily Astorian) Governor tweaks concept of marine reserves http://www.dailyastorian.com/Main.asp?SectionID=2&ArticleID=54021 The state of Oregon has surprised sport and commercial fishers by changing the rules on its marine reserves plan a month before site proposals are due to the Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory Council... Sept. 2: (East Oregonian) Planner measures city's ups, downs http://www.eastoregonian.info/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=82191&TM=67390.34 With a little help, Hermiston might be looking to spruce up its downtown in the future. As part of the periodic review the city completes every 10 years... August 29: (East Oregonian) Changing the view of the Blues http://www.eastoregonian.info/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=82118&TM=67390.34 Drivers along Highway 11 and residents in and around Milton-Freewater, Athena, Weston and Adams seem to be looking at two possible futures for their view of the Blue Mountains: One much like the current view or one full of windmills... END Cliff Voliva Communications Officer Department of Land Conservation and Development 635 Capitol St. NE, Suite 150 Salem, OR 97301-2540 Phone: (503) 373-0050 x268 Fax: (503) 378-6033 cliff.voliva at state.or.us http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/index.shtml