From Cliff.Voliva at state.or.us Fri Dec 5 09:53:06 2008 From: Cliff.Voliva at state.or.us (Cliff Voliva) Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:53:06 -0800 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - Dec. 9, 2008 Message-ID: <4938FA010200002300015B5B@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.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 ____________________________________________________________ Dec. 5: (Bend Bulletin) Crescent resort gets tentative approval http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081205/BIZ01/812050468/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 Klamath County gave preliminary approval this week to a proposed 5,574-acre destination resort west of Crescent, with 1,965 single-family homes and 785 overnight lodging units... Dec. 5: (Bend Bulletin) Surface mine hearing continued to Dec. 17 http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081205/BIZ01/812050414/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 A public hearing before the Deschutes County Commission on an application to rezone a surface mine west of Terrebonne lasted until about 9 p.m. Wednesday and was continued to Dec. 17 at 4 p.m... Dec. 5: (Eugene Register-Guard) Cities nervously await population forecast http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/3697104-35/story.csp As far as Lowell Mayor Warren Weathers is concerned, the business of predicting the future is taking so long the future might get here first. Weathers watched this week as Lane County kicked off a new plan for projecting future populations in local cities, numbers that are critical to the cities? growth plans... Dec. 4: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Transportation planning http://www.oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1228352121215940.xml&coll=7 Last spring and summer, during the heated debate over the nature of the future Columbia Crossing, the price of crude oil was approaching $150 a barrel and the price of gasoline appeared to be on an inexorable march to $5 a gallon... Dec. 4: (Bend Bulletin) Bend council closer to decision on UGB http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081204/NEWS01/812040444/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 Bend?s more than yearlong urban growth boundary expansion process hit another speed bump Wednesday as a divided Bend City Council voted to hold off on giving tentative approval to a UGB map until later this month... Dec. 4: (Medford Mail Tribune) County reduces planning positions http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081204/NEWS/812040320 Jackson County's planning and building staff received bad news Wednesday, when they learned of another round of layoffs... Nov. 29: (Central Oregonian) Planning department proposing changes to City?s Comprehensive Plan http://www.centraloregonian.com/PCONews10.shtml If you're one of the 600 people who received a notification from the City of Prineville regarding possible impacts to your property due to proposed land use regulations, you might want to mark your calendar for an upcoming meeting... 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