[LandUse-News] Land use News from DLCD - Dec. 30, 2008

[Cliff Voliva]

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Dec. 30: (Roseburg News-Review) Nonprofits board endorses Costco
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20081230/NEWS/812309968/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Nonprofits%20board%20endorses%20Costco

By a split vote, the three-member governance committee of the
nonprofits campus on Northeast Stephens Street has voted to endorse
Costco Wholesale’s plans to build a store just south of the campus...
 
Dec. 30: (Medford Mail Tribune) Board reverses land-use decision
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081230/NEWS/812300307

Oregon churches could have more options for where they can build under
a ruling from the state Land Use Board of Appeals on a Jackson County
couple's request to establish a church on their rural ranch...
 
Dec. 30: (Bend Bulletin) County rezones former mine
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081230/NEWS01/812300390/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01

The Deschutes County Commission voted unanimously Monday night to
rezone a 556-acre surface mine and former hazardous waste site west of
Terrebonne to allow residential development...
 
Dec. 28: (Editorial, McMinnville News-Register) City officials taking
bum rap on 'preventing' Costco store
http://www.newsregister.com/article/23883-city-officials-taking-bum-rap-039preventing039-costco-store

The city of McMinnville has been taking a beating in our Readers' Forum
recently, accused of preventing Costco from locating in the community.
We're compelled by common sense to come to its defense...
 
Dec. 27: (The Oregonian) Reinventing Estacada: from timber to
manufacturing
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/reinventing_estacada_from_timb.html

ESTACADA -- When Oregon's timber-dependent economy tanked in the early
1980s, few towns felt the blow more than Estacada. Log trucks that once
rolled through town at the rate of one a minute all but disappeared...
 
Dec. 24: (South County Spotlight) St. Helens needs more commercial
lands, less industrial
http://www.spotlightnews.net/news/story.php?story_id=123014045771996300

A recently released analysis of St. Helens’ economic opportunities
shows that, although the city is rolling in industrial lands, finding
commercial land in this town is getting tougher every year...
 
Dec. 24: (Newport News-Times) Meritage vacation rental appeal upheld by
Newport council
http://www.newportnewstimes.com/articles/2008/12/24/news/news05.txt 
The Newport City Council upheld a recent appeal filed by Dave and Toby
Graham to protest a denial for a Type II Conditional Use Permit for
vacation rental use of a townhouse in the Meritage development on NW
Oceanview Drive...
 
Dec. 24: (Ontario Argus Observer) Ontario welcomes new planning and
zoning chief
http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2008/12/24/news/doc495284bd1d149852733308.txt

Ontario — Though questions still surround the resignation of former
Planning and Zoning Administrator Evan MacKenzie in September, a new
planning and zoning administrator has emerged to take the reins...
 
Dec. 24: (Statesman Journal) Salem puts last details on golf course
deal
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20081224/NEWS/812240412/1001 
At a special Salem City Council meeting Tuesday, councilors addressed
final details on a deal to buy nearly 40 acres of the former Battle
Creek Golf Course...
 
Dec. 23: (Roseburg News-Review) Roseburg council approves UGB
expansion
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20081223/NEWS/812239952/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Roseburg%20council%20approves%20UGB%20expansion

Roseburg City Council member Steve Tuchscherer made another plea Monday
night for his colleagues to reconsider a plan to expand the city’s Urban
Growth Boundary by 1,358 acres...
 
Dec. 23: (Daily Astorian) Tongue Point purchase: Do the numbers add
up?
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=56980

The prospect of buying North Tongue Point has captured the imaginations
of Port of Astoria leaders, who see the industrial property as the key
to future economic growth in Astoria... 
 
Dec. 20: (The Oregonian) Fall in wood products market redirects
environmentalist strategy
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/fall_in_wood_products_market_r.html

You might guess environmental groups would be glad timber prices have
collapsed to where loggers' chain saws have fallen silent and sawmills
are shutting down...
 
Dec. 18: (Daily Journal of Commerce) University of Portland acquires 35
acres along Willamette
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/12/18/UP-acquires-35-acres-along-Willamette

Thirty-five acres of property along the Willamette River now belong to
the University of Portland. The university announced today that it has
completed a $6 million transaction to purchase property adjacent to its
campus from Triangle Park LLC...
 
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