From cliff.voliva at state.or.us Tue Jun 9 11:15:50 2009 From: cliff.voliva at state.or.us (Voliva, Cliff) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:15:50 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - June 9, 2009 Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B5917E4988727@dlcdsxch01> 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 ____________________________________________________________ June 9: (OPB News) Urbanization Not All Gloom And Doom For Bird Life http://news.opb.org/article/5161-urbanization-not-all-gloom-and-doom-bird-life/ A long-term bird research project is pecking some holes in the conventional wisdom about the environmental effects of suburban sprawl... June 8: (Medford Mail Tribune) LUBA rejects brings across Applegate River http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090608/NEWS/906080311 The state Land Use Board of Appeals has rejected a decision by the Jackson County Board of Commissioners to approve a proposed bridge across the Applegate River, citing lack of a public hearing... June 8: (Daily Journal of Commerce) City Club group to discuss '80 Portland Comprehensive Plan http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/06/08/City-Club-group-to-discuss-80-Portland-Comprehensive-Plan The City Club of Portland's Agora group on Tuesday will present a talk on the 1980 Portland Comprehensive Plan. The talk is part of the City Club's Civic 101 outreach program... June 5: (Commentary, The Oregonian) Once more into the Metolius http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2009/06/once_more_into_the_metolius.html This is power, folks. This is control. This is why you dine with the Rotary Clubs, cuddle the babies and press the flesh at retirement homes... June 5: (The Oregonian) I-5 bridge planners want public's thoughts about tolls http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/06/i5_bridge_planners_want_public.html The Columbia River Crossing project, a $4.1 billion plan to replace the Interstate 5 bridge between Portland and Vancouver, is launching a campaign to hear residents' concerns about tolls... June 5: (Medford Mail Tribune) Medford delays challenge to WalMart ruling HTTP://WWW.MAILTRIBUNE.COM/APPS/PBCS.DLL/ARTICLE?AID=/20090605/NEWS/906050329 MEDFORD - The City Council Thursday narrowly rejected challenging a Land Use Board of Appeals decision that at least temporarily blocks a proposed WalMart store in south Medford.... June 5: (East Oregonian) Breweries, wineries get approval http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=93497&TM=49473.85 The Pendleton Planning Commission voted 5-0 Thursday night to allow brew pubs, wineries and leather working in the downtown zone... June 5: (Bend Bulletin) Fight over Metolius resort ban may hinge on money http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090605/NEWS01/906050421/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 SALEM - Will a proposed destination resort ban for the Metolius River Basin hit state taxpayers' wallets? And if so, for how much? These questions represent the latest battleground in the political war over the Metolius that could be settled in the waning weeks of the Oregon Legislature's 2009 session... June 5: (Bend Bulletin) Jury awards $1 million to Prineville developer http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090605/NEWS01/906050406/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 PRINEVILLE - After a six-year battle with Crook County over a road, a federal jury awarded a Prineville-based developer more than $1 million in damages last week... June 5: (Bend Bulletin) Report: Deschutes housing overvalued http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090605/BIZ01/906050386/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 Home prices in Deschutes County in the first quarter of 2009 were 24.9 percent overvalued, according to the quarterly House Prices in America report... June 5: (Medford Mail Tribune) Oil flows in Sams Valley: Canola oil, that is. The crop thrives here, and is a good source of biodiesel http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090605/NEWS/906050327 Tired of searching for enough material to make his own biodiesel, Applegate Valley resident Roarke Ball is considering going into the oil business. Oil seed in the form of camelina sativa, or canola, that is... June 5: (Medford Mail Tribune) Hearings officer rejects park appeal http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090605/NEWS07/906040350 A county hearings officer has upheld park designation for 880 acres in Jacksonville's watershed. In the May 27 ruling, Hearings Officer Donald Rubenstein rejected appeals that the county's planning department had erred in making a decision to allow park designation in a woodland and forest zone... June 4: (Medford Mail Tribune) LUBA stalls south Medford WalMart http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090604/NEWS/906040326 A cloud has developed over a proposal to build a WalMart store in south Medford after the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals ruled this week that the city of Medford needs to complete a traffic study of the project.. June 4: (Statesman Journal) Council approves update to transportation plan http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090604/NEWS/906040356/1001/ARCHIVE Keizer City Council on Monday approved a transportation-plan update and amendments to a noxious-vegetation ordinance... June 3: (The Oregonian) Metolius resort bill gets new life in Salem http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/06/metolius_resort_bill_gets_new.html SALEM -- Legislation aimed at blocking the siting of resort developments in the Metolius River area gained new life late Wednesday... June 3: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Metro wants excise tax extension http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/06/03/Metro-wants-excise-tax-extension-Home-Builders-Association-opposes-agencys-plan-for-tax-on-new-const As counties continue to grapple with ways to raise revenue to pay for land-use planning, Metro looks to extend its excise tax on new construction for five more years so the metropolitan counties can afford to plan future growth... May 28: (Guest Commentary, Daily Journal of Commerce) Bill's effects on land use seem small http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2009/05/28/Bills-effects-on-land-use-seem-small-Is-HB-2229A-the-Big-Look-forward-for-Oregons-land-use-system-or In politics, it is often said that compromise is the key to getting anything accomplished. But the real question is whether the compromise bridges the differences... END Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer Director's Office Oregon Dept. 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: