[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - Jan. 20, 2009

[Cliff Voliva]

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Jan. 20: (Statesman Journal) Project may add homes to Keizer Station site
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090120/NEWS/901200329/1001/news 
An affordable-housing project for low-income workers and obese people could come to Keizer Station...

Jan. 20: (Bend Bulletin) Wind projects in the air
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090120/NEWS0107/901200415/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 
The northeastern edge of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation has been targeted as a potential area for a commercial wind project that could generate enough electricity to power about 27,000 homes...

Jan. 20: (Statesman Journal) Salem City Club to discuss land-use planning system
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090120/LEGISLATURE/901200325/1001/NEWS 
Recommendations to the Legislature for revamping Oregon's land-use planning system will be the topic of the next Salem City Club luncheon, noon Friday at Mission Mill Museum, 1313 Mill St. SE...

Jan. 19: (Corvallis Gazette-Times) Southwest subdivision returns to Council
http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2009/01/20/news/community/7aaa03_council.txt 
The Corvallis City Council Tuesday night will take up a ruling by the state Land Use Board of Appeals about a 42-lot subdivision in southwest Corvallis...

Jan. 16: (The Dalles Chronicle) Wal-Mart plan wins commission approval
http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2009/01/news01-16-09-01.shtml 
An application to build a 150,000-square-foot Wal Mart store on two lots of newly created subdivision at the west end of town got unanimous approval from The Dalles City Planning Commission Thursday night...

Jan. 16: (Daily Astorian) Condo project OK'd
http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=57583 
A riverfront condominium project that divided Astoria is back in business. More than 50 people attended the Astoria Planning Commission meeting Thursday evening as scaled-down plans for Jon Englund's project were proposed and approved...

Jan. 16: (Baker City Herald) County moves forward on zoning rules
http://www.bakercityherald.com/News/Local-News/County-moves-forward-on-zoning-rules 
County residents got their third opportunity Thursday evening to tell the Baker County Planning Commission what they think about the proposed revisions to the county zoning ordinance...

Jan. 16: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Some planners frustrated with less attendance
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090116/NEWS02/901160315/-1/NEWS 
How many excused absences should Planning Commission members get? That's a question that came up at the commission's Tuesday meeting at the Civic Center...

Jan. 16: (Roseburg News-Review) Zone change approved for Dixonville repair business
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20090116/NEWS/901169993/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Zone%20change%20approved%20for%20Dixonville%20repair%20business 
A controversial zone change allowing establishment of a truck repair business on a 2.4-acre residential property on Stocks Lane in Dixonville was approved for the second time Thursday night by the Douglas County Planning Commission...

Jan. 16: (Coos Bay World) Ocean Shores concerned about sea level
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/01/16/news/doc496f7ecb9bc7e904452732.txt
Two feet - or there about. Thats how much sea levels could rise in the next 100 years, researchers say...

Jan. 16: (Bend Bulletin) Deschutes voters to decide on local rule
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090116/NEWS01/901160381/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Deschutes County voters will have a chance this spring to determine whether residents of the south county area will be required to connect to a sewer system or upgrade their septic systems...

Jan. 16: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Kulongoski plans to appeal federal Bradwood decision
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/01/16/Kulongoski-plans-to-appeal-federal-Bradwood-decision
Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Thursday announced his intention to request that the U.S. Court of Appeals review a decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to license a liquefied natural gas terminal in Bradwood...

Jan. 15: (Editorial, Bend Bulletin) Taking the Metolius
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090115/NEWS01/901150320/1050/OPIN&nav_category=
Gov. Ted Kulongoskis plans to prohibit destination resorts in the Metolius River Basin features two things Oregonians surely do not agree with: a public process with all the predictability of a show trial, and a brazen attitude toward private property...

Jan. 15: (Daily Astorian) Feds uphold LNG ruling on Bradwood Landing
http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=57496&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today upheld its September approval of the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas project, denying multiple requests for a rehearing...

Jan. 15: (Medford Mail Tribune) Paving the way: If approved, city will connect Coker Butte Road to create new four-way intersection at Highway 62
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090115/NEWS/901150321
MEDFORD City officials could pay a private landowner $294,100 to bulldoze and rebuild three structures off Crater Lake Avenue to make way for a new intersection and extension of Coker Butte Road at Highway 62...

Jan. 15: (Eugene Register-Guard) Florence landowners erect erosion protection
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/5820516-35/story.csp
FLORENCE George Bynon can finally sleep at night. No longer are giant waves lapping at the sloughing sand at the end of his lot on the banks of the Siuslaw River...

Jan. 15: (Eugene Register-Guard) Group seeks more protection on coast
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/5820589-35/story.csp
FLORENCE - One of the hallmarks of Oregon's revered and sometimes reviled land use planning system lies in a series of goals established by the Legislature in 1969, long before most had considered urban sprawl or the repercussions of a careless building boom...

Jan. 15: (Bend Bulletin) Planned projects are part of bigger picture
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090115/NEWS01/901150330/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Over the next few decades, the city of Redmond could grow by one-third of its current size, with projects to the east and south, and become the hub of Central Oregon industry...

Jan. 15: (Bend Bulletin) COCC plans mixed-use development
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090115/NEWS0107/901150341/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
A 40-acre combination of retail, residential and other revenue-creating development could be on the horizon as Central Oregon Community College considers creating a special district to build on much of its unused property...

Jan. 14: (Statesman Journal) Gas terminals face opposition
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090114/LEGISLATURE/901140403/1042/COLUMN0808
Oregon's new attorney general, John Kroger, gave a spirited anti-LNG speech Tuesday on the Capitol steps to just the people who wanted to hear it...

Jan. 14: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Planners deadlock on pact
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090114/NEWS02/901140315/-1/NEWS
A divided Planning Commission spent about two hours weighing whether to enter into a regional planning agreement at its Tuesday meeting, touching only briefly on an agenda item regarding changing the sign code...

Jan. 13: (Roseburg News-Review) Roseburg to discuss waterfront plan again
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20090113/NEWS/901139950/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Roseburg%20to%20discuss%20waterfront%20plan%20again%20
Although the Roseburg City Council recently voted not to hire a consultant to develop a waterfront plan, its members decided Monday to bring the idea back, at least for discussion...

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