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[Cliff Voliva]

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Nov. 12: (Statesman Journal) Survey provides downtown details
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081112/NEWS/811110340/1001&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL

What has more than 500 businesses and 154 buildings, but not one
full-service grocery store? The heart of Salem's downtown, according to
a recent city survey...

Nov. 12: (Bend Bulletin) As residents fight resorts, developer may
appeal county ban
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081112/BIZ01/811120346/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=
Destination resorts in Crook County continue to create controversy on
both sides of the issue — more than 40 people pooled $6,850 to
challenge the approval of Crossing Trails, while others are saying they
will appeal the county’s decision last month to block new resorts in
the area...

Nov. 12: (Bend Bulletin) Deschutes to update its blueprint for
development
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081112/BIZ01/811120386/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=
When Deschutes County officials last asked residents for their opinions
on how the county should develop, the timber industry was still a major
employer and people could only guess what issues the county would face
20 years into the future...

Nov. 12: (Roseburg News-Review) State land use director disagrees with
county's Costco interpretation
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20081112/NEWS/811129986/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=State%20land%20use%20director%20disagrees%20with%20county%27s%20Costco%20interpretation%20

The state Department of Land Conservation and Development is taking
issue with a Douglas County interpretation that would allow Costco
Wholesale to construct a store in the county’s M-2 medium industrial
zone without seeking a zone change...

Nov. 11: (The Oregonian) Sherman County farmers reap stability from
wind
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/sherman_county_farmers_reap_st.html

Hilderbrand Lane slices through acres of wheat fields as it heads east
out of Wasco, a tiny town burrowed into Oregon's poorest county. Stubble
from summer's harvest bristles in every direction. Nothing interrupts
the tawny expanse until the road rises to expose hundreds of wind
turbines...

Nov. 11: (The Oregonian) Legislature will consider a regional approach
to land use
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/legislature_will_consider_a_re.html

Economic recovery, climate change and the state's budget problems have
elbowed to the front of the issues line ahead of it, but a proposal to
revise Oregon's land-use planning system will get serious consideration
in the upcoming session of the Legislature, officials say...

Nov. 11: (Ontario Argus Observer) Big Look Task Force may propel big
land use changes
http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2008/11/11/news/doc4919c61611611007258494.txt

SALEM — If approved by the governor and the Legislature, the Big Look
Task Force’s proposed changes to Oregon’s land-use system may give
Malheur County officials some of the flexibility in land-use planning
they’ve sought for years...

Nov. 11: (Baker City Herald) Zoning ordinance gets first public
hearing
http://www.bakercityherald.com/News/Local-News/Zoning-ordinance-gets-first-public-hearing

After a half-dozen meetings designed to explain the county’s new
zoning ordinance, residents now have the chance to tell the Planning
Commission what they think of the document...

Nov. 10: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Private forest owners can profit with
subdivisions
http://www.dailytidings.com/2008/1110/stories/1110_forests.php 
ALBANY — Many private forest owners are facing a tough decision
during the economic downturn — sell timber or sell the land...

Nov. 10: (AP, Eugene Register-Guard) Amazon adds data center on river
in rural Oregon
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/2294140-35/story.csp

BOARDMAN - A huge data center linked to Amazon.com is going up quietly
at the end of a dirt road nearly a mile long in Eastern Oregon...

Nov. 10: (Daily Journal of Commerce) The Ulven Cos. feel at home in
Hubbard
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/11/10/Small-town-suits-style-of-The-Ulven-Cos-Four-incorporated-businesses-thrive-in-Hubbard-while-shippin

The five incorporated businesses that work closely with The Ulven Cos.
(TUC) are studies in contrasts. Four are located in the small town of
Hubbard, but many of their products are used around the world...

Nov. 8: (Eugene Register-Guard) Cautious reception for wave proposal
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/2213573-35/story.csp

COOS BAY - What is so far the largest proposal for a wave energy park
on the Oregon Coast met with some skeptical questions and criticism at a
federal public hearing on Friday, but not nearly with the same amount of
virulence that has faced another perceived threat to local livelihoods:
marine reserves...

Nov. 8: (McMinnville News-Register) Landfill makes case; opponents
blast plan
http://www.newsregister.com/article/23137-landfill-makes-case-opponents-blast-plan

Riverbend Landfill spent the last few months pleading its case to
Yamhill County voters. And it succeeded in persuading voters to strongly
reject a ballot measure it regarded as a threat to its expansion
plans...

Nov. 7: (Roseburg News-Review) Roseburg works to encourage downtown
dwellers
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20081107/NEWS/811079928/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Roseburg%20works%20to%20encourage%20downtown%20dwellers

Not that long ago, downtown Roseburg store owners often lived in
apartments above their stores. They, and other downtown dwellers, walked
to work, walked to nearby shopping and walked to nearby parks, said
Community Development Director Fred Alley...

Nov. 7: (The Oregonian) Tired strip malls present opportunities to
reshape the landscape
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/tired_strip_malls_present_oppo.html

It's an aging strip mall: Hair salons, a video poker outlet, coin
laundry, four businesses closed on a Monday morning and a series of
empty storefronts with "For Lease" signs in the windows. Fourteen lonely
cars dot the vast parking lot...

Nov. 7: (Medford Mail Tribune) City Council approves agreement on
Northgate Centre development
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081107/NEWS/811070327

MEDFORD - The City Council on Thursday signed off on an agreement
allowing for development of an 800,000-square-foot retail and business
center to proceed at the site of the former Medco timber mill near the
Rogue Valley Mall...

Nov. 6: (Medford Mail Tribune) Alba Village project gets a public
hearing today in Medford
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081106/NEWS/811060334

The Medford City Council could decide today whether to sign off on a
plan conceived six years ago to build a large shopping center and
business and industrial park at the site of the former Medco timber
mill...

Nov. 6: (Klamath Falls Herald and News) New resort wins approval
http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2008/11/07/breaking/doc4913f1e6bdbf1551967723.txt

A destination resort expected to cost nearly $1 billion to build in
Northern Klamath County has received preliminary approval - and a list
of nearly 70 conditions - from county planning officials...

Nov. 6: (Capital Press) Crook County resort decision under appeal
http://www.capitalpress.com/main.asp?SectionID=67&SubSectionID=619&ArticleID=45985&TM=42674.44

A citizens' group and the Oregon Department of Transportation on
Monday, Nov. 3, appealed a Crook County decision to allow a fourth
destination resort in Powell Butte...

Nov. 5: (Coos Bay World) Wave energy topic of meetings
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/11/05/news/doc4910a47298fdc477329229.txt

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hold joint meetings with
representatives from Oregon Wave Energy Partners I on Thursday and
Friday regarding a proposed wave energy park off the North Spit of Coos
Bay...

Nov. 5: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Sherwood moves forward on canned
development
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/11/05/Sherwood-moves-forward-on-canned-development-Redevelopment-of-old-Sherwood-Cannery-is-intended-as-a-

Throughout the 1990s, Sherwood was among Oregon’s fastest-growing
towns, with a population that increased by 350 percent. Now, with the
long-awaited Sherwood Cannery redevelopment poised to start construction
next summer, the city intends to keep growing its economic base...

Nov. 3: (Editorial, Corvallis Gazette-Times) Take advantage of
Evanite’s good offer
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/11/03/news/opinion/7edi01_evanite1103.txt

As the City Council weighs in today on the issues surrounding Evanite
Fiber’s proposal to grant the city an easement through its property
south of downtown, here are the equations it needs to keep in mind...

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Cliff Voliva
Communications Officer
Oregon 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
www.oregon.gov/LCD