[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - September 29, 2009

Tue Sep 29 15:40:37 PDT 2009

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Sept. 29: (Portland Tribune) Clackamas County may ban urban clear cuts
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125424492355203800
After a brief explosion of interest and nine months cooking in a task force, the county has finally come up with the meat of a tree-cutting ordinance to prevent clear cuts of properties in the urban area...

Sept. 29: (Ashland Daily Tidings) County halts expansion at Hyatt Resort
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/NEWS02/909290317/-1/NEWS
A Jackson County hearings officer has ruled against expansion plans at Hyatt Lake Resort in a decision that could lead to the removal of cottages, a restaurant and other improvements....

Sept. 29: (Roseburg News-Review) Costco OK'd for Roseburg
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20090929/NEWS/909299995
It's official. Costco Wholesale has all its ducks in a row in its bid to start building a new store in north Roseburg. At its Monday meeting, the Roseburg City Council approved on second reading an ordinance approving Costco's request to annex about 20 acres into the city and to rezone the property...

Sept. 29: (Roseburg News-Review) West Ave. Roseburg plan moves forward
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20090929/NEWS/909299994
A new plan for the West Avenue neighborhood is a step closer to reality. The Roseburg City Council approved on first reading an ordinance to approve a redevelopment plan for the neighborhood...

Sept. 29: (Eugene Register-Guard) State's growers again sell most Christmas trees
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/20841429-35/story.csp
Oregon has once again retained its title as the nation's Christmas tree champion...

Sept. 26: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Better business climate needed to create jobs
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/better_business_climate_needed.html
We do a very good job of attracting people to live in Oregon. But we underperform when it comes to attracting and sustaining high-wage, job-creating industries. That wedge is the fundamental cause of Oregon's persistently high unemployment rate...

Sept. 24: (East Oregonian) Transmission line route draws local scrutiny
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=98239&TM=49708.68
Idaho Power's strategy of letting locals plot their own route for the controversial Boardman to Hemingway transmission line is paying off. Project manager Kent McCarthy said he saw a dramatic turnaround at a recent mapping session in Baker...

Sept. 24: (Corvallis Gazette-Times) Critics maintain stacking land-use fees is a bad idea
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_efdc6e40-a99b-11de-8323-001cc4c03286.html
About a dozen people - mostly business owners and those involved in the local building industry - argued this week against a City Council plan to continue marching toward charging developers for the full cost of processing land-use applications in the city...

Sept. 24: (Editorial, Daily Astorian) Can local retailers survive Walmart?
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=64334
Everyone is talking about the new Warrenton Walmart. Is it cause for celebration, with cheaper prices and 300 jobs?

Sept. 24: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Climate change is now outpacing earlier estimates
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090924/LIFE/909240304/-1/NEWS
WASHINGTON - Climate change is happening faster and on a broader scale than the world's scientists projected in 2007, according to a new report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program...

Sept. 24: (Coos Bay World) Coalition offers resort planning workshops
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/09/24/news/doc4abbad7c07baa393945468.txt
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition is joining with 1000 Friends of Oregon to sponsor two Oct. 10 workshops, designed to help Curry County residents understand mapping and resort planning processes and to become involved...

Sept. 24: (Coos Bay World) County OK's flooding Kentuck Golf Course
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/09/24/news/doc4aba530200329149545882.txt
COQUILLE - Developers of a local liquefied natural gas terminal have cleared another hurdle in addressing environmental concerns, as they try to move forward with the project...

Sept. 24: (Bend Bulletin) Resort hearing to get county input
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090924/NEWS01/909240406/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
SALEM - Lawmakers considering whether to change the rules for new destination resorts will hear from Deschutes County officials next week. At a Sept. 30 hearing, the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to hear from Deschutes commissioners, as well as county Planning Director Nick Lelack, on a live video feed...

Sept. 24: (Bend Bulletin) Juniper Ridge master plan to be open to public input
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090924/BIZ0102/909240362/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Members of the public will soon be able to weigh in on a master plan for the 230-acre commercial area of Juniper Ridge as the plan heads to the Bend Planning Commission and then on to the City Council...

Sept. 24: (Bend Bulletin) Proposed wind farm seeks BLM's OK for line
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090924/NEWS01/909240385/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
With conditional approvals from Crook and Deschutes counties in hand, a company hoping to build a wind farm capable of powering 50,000 homes is now applying for the Bureau of Land Management's OK to build a transmission line and realign a 3.7-mile road on public land...

Sept. 24: (Daily Astorian) Clatsop County commissioners vote 4-1 to approve LNG pipeline zone change
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=64314&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398
Four of five Clatsop County Commissioners say they have no evidence a pipeline might pass through Westport property owned by Sam Karamanos...

Sept. 23: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Wilsonville aims to reduce traffic congestion
http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/09/23/wilsonville-aims-to-reduce-traffic-congestion/
Traffic congestion in Wilsonville has gotten so bad, city officials say, it could hamper future growth...

Sept. 23: (OPB News) Counties And Metro Working On 50-Year Growth Plan
http://news.opb.org/article/5876-counties-and-metro-working-50-year-growth-plan/
The regional committee responsible for designating where -- and how -- Portland will grow heard recommendations from a number of county leaders Wednesday...

Sept. 23: (The Oregonian) Affordable housing at issue in tax break fight
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/09/affordable_housing_at_issue_in.html
When Museum Place South opened in 2003, the downtown building was considered a model of how the city and private developers could finance affordable housing for low-income Portlanders...

Sept. 23: (Albany Democrat-Herald) City seeks input on development code changes
http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_0dfddc96-a871-11de-bace-001cc4c002e0.html
The City of Albany Community Development Department is periodically evaluating and making changes to the development code, and the public is invited to participate...

Sept. 23: (Roseburg News-Review) Industrial park seeks opportunities
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20090923/NEWS/909239998/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055
When Weyerhaeuser Co. announced last week that it plans to close its Wilbur utility pole plant, it dealt another blow to the Wilbur-Winchester Industrial Park....

Sept. 23: (Bend Bulletin) Measure 49 ruling favors utility in fight over poles
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090923/NEWS01/909230386/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
A Deschutes County official has ruled in favor of a local utility in a land use case in the latest phase of an ongoing dispute that at one point erupted into a tractor standoff...

Sept. 22: (Hillsboro Argus) AmberGlen plan's open space regains focus
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/1253641854240310.xml&coll=6
The final open house on the AmberGlen Concept Plan failed to attract much public interest.  Unlike previous sessions...

Sept. 22: (Editorial, The Oregonian) Roll up the welcome mat
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/roll_up_the_welcome_mat.html
There are plenty of Willamette Valley communities that would warmly greet the Klamath tribes if they came to town to develop manufacturing, retail shopping or a medical center to create jobs and care for tribal members...

Sept. 22: (Daily Journal of Commerce) City reaches out to public online
http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/09/22/city-reaches-out-to-public-online/
If left to the online masses, a redeveloped Memorial Coliseum would be used for games of hide and seek and capture the flag, or repurposed as an indoor water park. Those are some of the ideas submitted to Mayor Sam Adams' office, which is asking for ideas for the redevelopment project, and gauging public reaction to it in real time, via online social networks...

Sept. 22: (AP, KTVZ Bend) Ore. enviros target new legislation
http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=11179282
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Although the poor economy sidetracked some environmental bills this year, Oregon lawmakers can expect to be pressured again by conservationists to curb greenhouse gases, expand Oregon's bottle bill and tighten rules over siting of destination resorts...

Sept. 20: (Guest Commentary, East Oregonian) Wind-energy rush threatens historic sites
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=50&ArticleID=98091&TM=43049.62
In 1859, Oregon became a state because so many American settlers had come here on the Oregon Trail. In 1959, Oregon celebrated the centennial of statehood and commissioned public projects to identify and mark the Oregon Trail for the benefit of future generations...

Sept. 19: (East Oregonian) Boardman OKs interchange plan
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=98024&TM=33632.99
BOARDMAN - City officials have approved an Interchange Area Management Plan (IAMP) for the Main Street interchange with Interstate 84...

Sept. 15: (Roseburg News-Review) Roseburg's bike/pedestrian plan rolls over finish
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20090915/NEWS/909159991
Marissa Fink moved to Roseburg partly because "it's a bike-friendly community and a beautiful place to ride a bicycle." And once she got here in June and saw all the folks working on revising the city's bicycle and pedestrian plan, she felt even better about the city's cycling future...

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