[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - Dec. 2, 2008

[Cliff Voliva]

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Dec. 2: (Statesman Journal) Plan for Boise site advances
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081202/NEWS/812020333/1001 
Supporters of a plan to transform the former Boise Cascade site into a
mixed-use development have cleared another major hurdle...

Dec. 1: (The Oregonian) CONFLICTING RULINGS LEAVE RURAL LANDOWNERS
CAUGHT AND CONFUSED
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2008/12/conflicting_rulings_leave_rura.html

A percolating batch of legal rulings -- one in federal court and
several in state courts -- have thoroughly dissolved any agreement
Oregonians thought they had achieved on property rights...

Dec. 1: (Statesman Journal) Hearing set for Keizer transit center
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081201/NEWS/812010336/1001 
Keizer residents and landowners are objecting to a transit center that
could displace their homes. The transit center is planned at Chemawa and
Bailey roads NE...

Nov. 30: (Editorial, Medford Mail Tribune) Much ado about the Big Look
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081130/OPINION/811300306

A state task force has recommended changes in the way Oregon manages
its land-use issues and - surprise! - the entrenched forces on both ends
of the debate don't like it...

Nov. 29: (McMinnville News-Register) COUNTY SUED BY VESTING CLAIMANT
http://www.newsregister.com/article/23448-county-sued-vesting-claimant

A McMinnville couple whose Measure 37 claim for a subdivision was
approved in mid-2007 has sued Yamhill County after their subsequent
Measure 49 vesting claim was denied by hearings officer Todd Sadlo...

Nov. 28: (Baker City Herald) Commissioners mull RV, tent sites near
Oxbow
http://www.bakercityherald.com/News/Local-News/Commissioners-mull-RV-tent-sites-near-Oxbow

County Commissioners heard but took no action Wednesday on a proposed
zoning  change that would allow for the development of an RV park with
cabins and tent sites along Homestead Road in Northeast Baker County...

Nov. 28: (San Francisco Chronicle) New land-use law's message: build
near transit
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/27/MNON1491JM.DTL&tsp=1

Many California planning and environmental groups are heralding the
passage of legislation designed to address global warming by curbing
suburban sprawl as a watershed moment, perhaps the state's most
important land-use law in more than 30 years...

Nov. 26: (Lebanon Express) Planners approve new development code
http://www.lebanon-express.com/articles/2008/11/26/news/local/local05code.txt

New zoning and other development-related regulations for the city of
Lebanon are a step closer to adoption by the City Council, which will
consider them on Dec. 10...

Nov. 26: (Guest Commentary, Eugene Register-Guard) ‘Big Look’ at
land use sees only growth
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/opinion/3225520-47/story.csp

While Gov. Ted Kulongoski has excited the green community with solar
energy buy-backs, electric-car tax credits and marine reserves, the
committee he appointed three years ago to revise Oregon’s land use
program promises to accelerate the climate change and energy depletion
those other projects purport to curb...

Nov. 26: (Bend Bulletin) Deal to trade forestland for development
rights falls through
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081126/BIZ01/811260406/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01

WASHINGTON - A deal to trade development rights for thousands of acres
of timberland northwest of Bend - dubbed the Skyline Forest - is off the
table...

Nov. 20: (Portland Tribune) Tualatin recinds Metro’s minimum density
housing requirement
http://www.portlandtribune.com/metro_news/story.php?story_id=122722648576266000

TUALATIN - On Nov. 10, Tualatin rescinded the 80 percent minimum
density requirement which was first adopted to coincide with Metro. What
does that mean?

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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) 378-5518
cliff.voliva at state.or.us
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