[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - April 21, 2009

[Cliff Voliva]

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April 21: (Bend Bulletin) More tests for former mine
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090421/NEWS01/904210410/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 
A 557-acre mine and former hazardous waste site west of Terrebonne will require more environmental testing before it can be used for a residential development, according to a report released Monday by the Oregon Department of Human Services Public Health Division...

April 20: (Ashland Daily Tidings) City proposes stream, wetland buffer rules
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090420/NEWS02/904200316/-1/NEWS 
The Ashland City Council will consider a new ordinance meant to protect streams and wetlands that could affect about 1,800 properties in town...

April 19: (Bend Bulletin) Backup resort ban put forward in Salem
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090419/NEWS01/904190414 
SALEM - Backers of the proposed Metolius River Basin destination resort ban are finding it may be more difficult to pass than they once thought. The heightened concern stems from a two-pronged lobbying effort by Jefferson County officials and the developers of the Metolian project...

April 19: (Guest Commentary, Statesman Journal) Ranchers are good land stewards, have a major effect on economy
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090419/BUSINESS01/904190306/1040/ARCHIVE 
We were No. 2, and now we're No. 1. And we're darned proud of it. For the sixth consecutive year, Oregon's farmers and ranchers have experienced positive sales growth, grossing an estimated $4.9 billion in 2008...

April 19: (McMinnville News-Register) Homeless shelter wins expansion OK
http://www.newsregister.com/article/38659-homeless+shelter+wins+expansion+ok 
McMinnville's homeless shelter won authorization from the planning commission Thursday to expand its operations...

April 18: (AP, Capital Press) High-end hotel goes up in Newberg, Ore.
http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=801&ArticleID=50614&TM=52408.46 
NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) - Despite a sagging economy, Oregon's first wine-country resort hotel is going up amid Oregon's high-dollar pinot noir vineyards...

April 17: (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) Commissioner unhappy with M-F flood map revision meeting
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/17/local_news/090417local05floodfolo.txt
PENDLETON -- A meeting on new flood maps for Milton-Freewater wasn't a high-water mark for Umatilla County Commissioner Larry Givens...

April 17: (The Oregonian) Metro counties on track to designate Portland growth areas
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/04/metro_counties_on_track_to_des.html
The Portland area is edging closer to designating where it will grow over the next 40 to 50 years and which areas will remain as farms, forests or natural areas...

April 17: (Medford Mail Tribune) Jacksonville's miffed over being booted off countywide committee
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090417/NEWS/904170335
Jacksonville officials are crying foul after they were mistakenly booted off a regional committee that is helping decide the fate of Jackson County's growth over the next 50 years...

April 16: (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) Crowd floods insurance meeting
http://union-bulletin.com/articles/2009/04/16/local_news/090416local01floodmeet.txt
MILTON-FREEWATER -- A flood study provoked a flood of questions Wednesday. At a meeting in the Community Building, a crowd of about 160 residents...

April 16: (East Oregonian) Levee Qs go without answers
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=91312&SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&S=1
Citizens didn't get the answers they wanted from the meeting put on by the Federal Emergency Management Agency about new flood maps of the Walla Walla River system...

April 16: (Statesman Journal) BILL ALLOWS SOME LAND-USE CLAIMS TO BE CONSIDERED
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090416/LEGISLATURE/904160328/1042/NEWS
Some landowners who failed to file Measure 49 claims with all affected governments, or who missed last year's deadline for choosing options, would have their claims considered under legislation pending in both chambers...

April 16: (Portland Tribune) What's future for Stafford?
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=123983143209729400
Politicking is feverish in the Stafford Basin, where residents, surrounding cities and developers are weighing in on whether to preserve its rural character. As regional government Metro plots the next phase of growth...

April 16: (Coos Bay World) County IT budget grows, planning shrinks
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/04/16/news/doc49e61d0e5a727103838308.txt
COQUILLE - No Coos County department budgets are final yet, but some county managers have a good idea of how theyd like to spend money next year...

April 15: (Baker City Herald) Council wants details on privatizing planning
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Council-wants-details-on-privatizing-planning
After a long cost/benefit analysis over the merits of privatizing Baker Citys planning department, the City Council decided Tuesday they want City Manager Steve Brocato to bring back a proposal to the April 28 meeting...

April 15: (The Oregonian) Court reverses Dorothy English land-use decision, orders Multnomah County to pay $1.15 million
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/04/court_reverses_multnomah_count.html
The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a decision in the long-running Dorothy English land-use case, and sent it back to Multnomah County with instructions that the county pay compensation of $1.15 million...

April 15: (Bend Bulletin) Jefferson offers to sign off on protections - for a price
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090415/NEWS01/904150372/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
SALEM - Jefferson County officials have informed the state that in return for an 18-hole golf course and a green light for the Metolian destination resort, its legal and political opposition to the Metolius River Basin protection plan will go away...

April 9: (Guest Commentary, Daily Journal of Commerce) Five debates about rural residences: Sam Lowry's The Big Looks Rural Residential Dilemma shouldn't be overlooked
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/04/09/Five-debates-about-rural-residences-Sam-Lowrys-The-Big-Looks-Rural-Residential-Dilemma-shouldnt-be-o
In a recent article, The Big Looks Rural Residential Dilemma, available at www.oregonbiglook.org/mediacenter, author Sam Lowry asks the state Legislature to delve deeper into what drives the rural residential land debate...

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