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

[Cliff Voliva]

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Dec. 9: (Bend Bulletin) Traffic through Sisters: Compromise for
downtown bypass may save money
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081209/NEWS01/812090414/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Sisters could finally have a transportation plan that could ease
traffic through downtown, but the project still faces funding
hurdles...

Dec. 8: (OPB News) Ecotrust Software Charts Best Coastal Fishing
Grounds
http://news.opb.org/article/3733-ecotrust-software-charts-best-coastal-fishing-grounds/

One of Oregon’s leading environmental organizations received a
prestigious technology award on Monday. The Mellon Foundation has
awarded Ecotrust $50,000 in recognition of its mapping software designed
to chart the best coastal fishing grounds...

Dec. 8: (Klamath Falls Herald and News) No protests filed against
destination resort plan
http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2008/12/09/breaking/doc493dd06433c19759049230.txt

A destination resort proposed in northern Klamath County is one step
closer to development...

Dec. 8: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) A third way forward on our
ocean's future
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/12/a_third_way_forward_on_our_oce.html

There are two positions already staked out on the issue of creating
marine reserves off the Oregon coast. There is an emotional and often
irrational drive to lock up much of Oregon's ocean from commercial and
sport fishing, and there is the predictable response to that drive that
amounts to "no way."

Dec. 8: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Commission to tackle Siskiyou condo
complex
http://www.dailytidings.com/2008/1208/stories/1208_planningpreview.php

Should a proposed Siskiyou Boulevard condo complex be allowed to
sidestep some city building requirements?

Dec. 7: (AP, The Oregonian) Yamhill group advises against LNG lines
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/12/yamhill_group_advises_against.html

A committee appointed to study proposals for two liquefied natural gas
pipelines will advise Yamhill County's commissioners to oppose them...

Dec. 6: (McMinnville News-Register) Yamhill County is going urban
http://www.newsregister.com/article/23558-yamhill-county-going-urban 
Yamhill County's population continued to edge toward six digits in
2007. However, growth was incremental and limited largely to five cities
- Lafayette, McMinnville, Newberg, Sheridan and Yamhill...

Dec. 6: (McMinnville News-Register) Slowdown opens door for long-range
work
http://www.newsregister.com/article/23556-slowdown-opens-door-longrange-work

The abrupt slowdown in local building has given the city's planning
department time to finally begin working on some long-stalled
projects...

Dec. 6: (Curry Coastal Pilot) Curry County, City of Brookings on verge
of adopting storm water plan
http://www.currypilot.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=18699
The Storm and Surface Water Facilities Plan for the Brookings-Harbor
area, a project under development for almost four years, is on the verge
of adoption by the Brookings City Council and the Curry County Board of
Supervisors...

Dec. 5: (The Dalles Chronicle) Wal-Mart hearing draws crowd of 100
http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2008/12/news12-05-08-01.shtml 
A four-hour hearing on a site plan review for a 150,000 square foot
Wal-Mart building on property at the west end of town ended without any
decision — in fact without any deliberation by the planning
commission...

Dec. 5: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Transportation Commission formed anew
http://www.dailytidings.com/2008/1205/stories/1205_traffic.php 
The Traffic Safety Commission met for the final time Thursday night,
after which it was abolished along with the Bicycle and Pedestrian
Commission to prepare for a new Transportation Commission forming after
the first of the year...

Dec. 5: (The Oregonian) Panel says bigger I-5 bridge won't increase
sprawl
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2008/12/panel_says_big_i5_bridge_wont.html

One of the great concerns about widening the Interstate 5 bridge over
the Columbia River to 12 lanes was that suburban sprawl and more
congestion would be the inevitable and direct result. But it isn't
so...

Dec. 4: (Portland Tribune) City, neighbors scrap over Tabor land
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=122834389266162400

You might call this story: Pesky Mount Tabor Park Neighbors vs. City
Bureaucrats, Round III. In recent years, neighborhood activists fended
off a Portland Water Bureau plan to enclose Mount Tabor Park’s
open-air reservoirs...

Dec. 4: (Baker City Herald) County paves way for canyon RV park
http://www.bakercityherald.com/News/Local-News/County-paves-way-for-canyon-RV-park

County Commissioners approved a zone change Wednesday on a 76-acre
parcel alongside Hells Canyon Reservoir north of Oxbow, clearing the way
for a Colorado company to build a 60-site RV, tent and cabin development
at the site along Homestead Road...

Dec. 4: (New York Times) Vermont Town Turns to College in Bid to Guide
Change
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/04middlebury.html?_r=1 
STARKSBORO, Vt. - Old-timers in this hill town remember when a car
driving through at night would draw residents to their windows. Now
headlights routinely gleam on the narrow roads well past dark...

Dec. 4: (Capital Press) Big Look irritates two sides
http://www.capitalpress.com/main.asp?SectionID=67&SubSectionID=619&ArticleID=46734&TM=66868.61

Oregon's Big Look Task Force is proposing a new land-use wrinkle
designed to give local government more control over zoning. Whether the
proposal actually does what is intended, however, is debatable, as is
whether lawmakers will ultimately adopt the plan...

Dec. 4: (Guest Commentary, Capital Press) Activists use courts as
weapon to attack animal agriculture
http://www.capitalpress.com/main.asp?SectionID=75&SubSectionID=768&ArticleID=46706

A number of activist groups have long been opposed to modern livestock
production, but have found it difficult in many states to have animal
agriculture simply zoned out of existence...

Dec. 3: (Daily Astorian) Cannon Beach approves cell phone tower
http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=56428

CANNON BEACH - Despite testimony from several Cannon Beach residents
expressing concerns that a 60-foot cell phone tower could cause health
problems, the City Council approved a 25-year lease with Verizon
Wireless...

Dec. 3: (La Grande Observer) New public transit hub opens
http://www.lagrandeobserver.com/News/Business/New-public-transit-hub-opens

The timing was just about perfect. Monday at 10:25 a.m., a Greyhound
bus pulled up for the first time to the new Northeast Oregon Public
Transit Building at 2204 E. Penn Avenue. It let off a couple of
passengers and took on a couple more...

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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
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cliff.voliva at state.or.us
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