[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - March 10, 2009

Tue Mar 10 10:08:22 PDT 2009

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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...

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