[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - Dec. 9, 2008

[Cliff Voliva]

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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...

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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
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