From Cliff.Voliva at state.or.us Tue Mar 10 10:08:22 2009 From: Cliff.Voliva at state.or.us (Cliff Voliva) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:08:22 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - March 10, 2009 References: <49ACF91C0200002300018389@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49AE46120200002300018400@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49AE55150200002300018409@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0D8CA02000023000184C4@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0D95E02000023000184C7@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0DDD102000023000184E0@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0EDF502000023000184E4@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0EEA902000023000184E7@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0F12802000023000184EA@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0F15802000023000184ED@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B0F1BB02000023000184F0@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B4CF2B0200002300018535@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B4D0820200002300018538@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B4D37D020000230001853B@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B4D385020000230001853E@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B4DAE10200002300018541@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B4EBE80200002300018569@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B51F550200002300018586@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B62BF602000023000185DA@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B62DA302000023000185DD@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B6306502000023000185E5@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B63C0B02000023000185FD@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> <49B63C160200002300018601@dlcdsgwava.dlcd.state.or.us> Message-ID: <49B63B85.0046.0023.0@lcd.state.or.us> Welcome to the Land Use News e-mail 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 e-mails 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 ____________________________________________________________ March 10: (Medford Mail Tribune) MEASURE 37 CLAIMANTS MAY SEE SOME RELIEF http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090310/NEWS/903100313 Property rights advocates are drumming up support for proposed legislation to help Measure 37 claimants who feel left in the lurch by recent land-use laws... March 10: (Bend Bulletin) Setting the tone for resort debate http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090310/NEWS0107/903100416/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 SALEM Chris Doty, Redmonds public works director, stresses that neither he nor his employer are anti-destination resort. And yet, he said, the states current resort rules have completely flipped the intent of land use in Oregon... March 9: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Commission mulls city planning goals as to-do lists shrink http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090309/NEWS02/903090318/-1/NEWS As the economy has soured, the Ashland Planning Commission's to-do lists have shrunk: Suddenly very few people are submitting applications to build in the city... March 9: (AP, MSNBC.com) Transit ridership up, highway travel down http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29597893 WASHINGTON - Americans hopped on buses, subways and commuter rails more last year amid record-high gas prices and drove less on the nation's highways, according to industry figures to be released Monday... March 9: (Statesman Journal) GOP leader wants proposed line moved http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090309/LEGISLATURE/903090333/1042 BAKER CITY - The Republican leader of the Oregon Senate has introduced a bill he says is designed to get an Idaho utility company to move the proposed route of a high-voltage line off Eastern Oregon farmland... March 9: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Council votes for 12 lanes for Columbia River Crossing http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/03/09/Council-votes-for-12-lanes-for-Columbia-River-Crossing-Formation-of-Mobility-Council-would-provide-p In what Columbia River Crossing Project Council Chair Hal Dengerink called one of the councils most important meetings, the bi-state council that helps oversee the project on Friday voted to recommend a 12-lane bridge option and the formation of a Mobility Council for accountability purposes... March 8: (AP, The Oregonian) Oregon wine acreage increases despite recession http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/03/oregon_wine_acreage_increases.html Wine grape acreage and wine sales in Oregon are growing despite the recession. The National Agricultural Statistics Service says total grape acreage grew by 1,570 acres in 2008, the third consecutive year of record plantings... March 6: (Daily Astorian) Bradwood?opponents' challenge rejected http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=58953 The Oregon Court of Appeals has rejected Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas project opponents' challenge to a recent Land Use Board of Appeals decision because it was filed too late to be considered and didn't contain proof of mailing date... March 6: (Madras Pioneer) County proposes its own Metolius protection plan http://www.madraspioneer.com/MAPNews2.shtml With hopes of controlling its own destiny, the Jefferson County Commission is jumping into the controversy swirling around the Metolius River basin by proposing its own protection plan... March 6: (Madras Pioneer) Fight moves to Round Butte http://www.madraspioneer.com/MAPNews1.shtml The fracas over development in the Metolius basin has spilled over onto farm land, upsetting Jefferson County agricultural interests and bringing them into the controversy... March 6: (Madras Pioneer) New round of appeals -- this time on map of Camp Sherman http://www.madraspioneer.com/MAPNews4.shtml After more than two years of appeals of Jefferson County's Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance, a land-use group last week launched another round... March 5: (Roseburg News-Review) Jaques, Mast replaced on planning commisison http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20090305/NEWS/903059963/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Jaques%2C%20Mast%20replaced%20on%20planning%20commisison Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday chose two new members of the county Planning Commission, prompting complaints from the outgoing chairman... March 5: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Linn waives building permit fees http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2009/03/05/news/local/4aaa03_permit.txt Come on down, its sale time at the Linn County Planning and Building Department. The county is waiving fees for building-related permits... March 5: (Tualatin Times) Tigard council, resident at odds over land use zoning http://www.tualatintimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=123629621123858800 What does Tigard need more, industrial land or residential land? The question is at the center of an almost yearlong controversy between City Council, staff and Tigard property owner Fred Fields... March 4: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Ashland joins pact to guide growth in Valley http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090304/NEWS01/903040312 The city of Ashland will sign onto an agreement that tries to guide growth throughout the Rogue Valley, thanks to the tie-breaking vote of Mayor John Stromberg... March 4: (MSNBC) Tamarack to close Wednesday, future remains uncertain http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29473125/ BOISE -- It is certainly not what investors or homeowners expected when they bought into Tamarack -- but five years later, the highly touted resort is shutting down... March 4: (The Bee) Sellwood-Westmorelands quality-of-life monitor eyes City zoning codes http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=123594471403302000 Sellwood resident Mat Millenbach was one of a roomful of people who spent the better part of their Saturday delving into the intricacies of Portlands land use policies on January 24th... March 4: (Bend Bulletin) The big picture at Juniper Ridge http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090304/NEWS01/903040389/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 It will likely be decades before all the city of Bends plans for the 1,500-acre Juniper Ridge development - a business park, shopping areas, hundreds of homes, parks, trails and a university - become a reality... March 4: (Bend Bulletin) Alternative proposed for Metolius http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090304/NEWS01/903040361/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 Jefferson County unveiled its draft plan for protecting the Metolius River Basin from overdevelopment on Tuesday, offering an alternative to the proposals developed by the state Department of Land Conservation and Development... March 2: (Statesman Journal) Salem's chicken ban faces debate http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090302/NEWS/903020345/1001 A ban against chickens in residential zones has ruffled some feathers with a determined group of Salem city dwellers... END Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer OregonDept. of Land Conservation and Development 635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540 Office: (503) 373-0050 ext. 268 | Fax: (503) 378-5518 cliff.voliva at state.or.us| www.oregon.gov/LCD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: