[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - October 6, 2009

[Voliva, Cliff]

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Oct. 6: (The Oregonian) 1000 Friends of Oregon looking for next director, while Metro Council presidency attracts candidates
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/1000_friends_of_oregon_looking_1.html
Bob Stacey has stepped down as director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, the state's best known conservation group, and will seek election next year as president of the Metro Council...

Oct. 5: (The Oregonian) As Portland area makes growth decisions, small cities want their voices heard
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/as_portland_area_makes_growth.html
Portland's development issues get a lot of attention, but the region's smaller cities also have a stake in how the area grows. Troutdale Mayor Jim Kight reminded Metro officials of that point during a public hearing last week in Gresham...

Oct. 5: (Medford Mail Tribune) 'A pretty cool little town'
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091005/NEWS/910050310
Quaint, quiet and surrounded by both history and wineries, Jacksonville is named one of the top 10 "Coolest Small Towns in America" in the October 2009 issue of Arthur Frommer's "Budget Travel" magazine...

Oct. 5: (Corvallis Gazette-Times) Council puts off OSU's suggestions for changes to city historic preservation rules
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_6d5348f6-b20e-11de-a507-001cc4c03286.html
The Corvallis City Council decided Monday not to take up a list of changes proposed by Oregon State University concerning rules over historic preservation within the city's land development code...

Oct. 5: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Pace changes at Cedar Mill
http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/05/pace-changes-at-cedar-mill/
Washington County planners want the Cedar Mill area to look like a town's main street, with buildings spilling out onto sidewalks, rather than a strip of parking lots...

Oct. 4: (San Francisco Chronicle) Push for LNG pipeline from Oregon's Coos Bay
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/10/04/MNGM19SPCT.DTL
Coos Bay snakes from the Pacific into the hilly Oregon coast, its waters sheltered from the ocean by a long, sandy spit...

Oct. 4: (East Oregonian) Floodplain revision causes trouble for Stanfield church
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=98649&TM=50635.62
Pastor Mike Kinlock of Crossroads Community Church in Stanfield is facing a new battle since the floodplain was revised...

Oct. 3: (Commentary, The Oregonian) Up vs. out: Multiple pieces in play for solving growth puzzle
http://www.oregonlive.com/hovde/index.ssf/2009/10/up_vs_out_multiple_pieces_in_p.html
The idea of putting a million more people into a region you love can be unsettling or downright scary. Some of us don't even like it when a neighbor takes in a roommate or buys a third car...

Oct. 3: (East Oregonian) City mounts challenge to FEMA flood zone map
http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=98600&TM=50635.62
The city of Milton-Freewater has bought some time for the taxpayers in what could be a flood zone of the Walla Walla River. In August the city challenged maps published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency...

Oct. 1: (Portland Tribune) Price of growth: $10 billion: Metro looks for ways to pay for next wave of infrastructure
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125434317923009900
In recent years, Metro has convinced regional voters to increase their taxes millions of dollars to operate the Oregon Zoo, which it manages. Metro also has convinced voters to tax themselves millions of dollars to preserve thousands of acres of open spaces throughout the region...

Oct. 1: (Editorial, Medford Mail Tribune) Hearings officer saw the cabins, not the trees
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091001/OPINION/910010320
The headline in Tuesday's newspaper read, "Ruling puts brakes on Hyatt resort expansion." The brakes were properly applied. It is unfortunate they were not applied sooner, and that the expansion was allowed to proceed in the first place...

Oct. 1: (Portland Tribune) Landslide still changing lives
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125434338207750700
Grass is now growing where the Hendricksons and Chous used to live. It's been a year since an early morning Oct. 8 landslide destroyed their Hillsdale homes and endangered at least four others...

Oct. 1: (Roseburg News-Review) Costco to chip in before receiving permits
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910019996
Costco Wholesale will be required to contribute the $700,000 it agreed to put up for road improvements for its new north Roseburg store before it obtains building permits, according to an agreement between the company, Douglas County, the city of Roseburg and the Oregon Department of Transportation...

Oct. 1: (Roseburg News-Review) Mercy heliport landing pad approved
http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910019980
Helicopters will be landing in the rear parking lot at Mercy Medical Center in the not-too-distant future...

Sept. 29: (AP, The Oregonian) Western states must make sure water is available before adding development, gov says
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/western_states_must_plan_futur.html
DENVER -- Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter says Western states must work together on water issues if the region is to continue to grow....

Sept. 29: (The Oregonian) Urban planner says Portland's development holds lessons for other cities
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/urban_planner_says_portlands_o.html
We Portlanders can't help it. We want to know what other people are saying about us -- especially if it's flattering. Noted planning expert William Fulton has spent a lot of time looking at how we do things here and writes about it in the California Planning and Development Report<http://www.cp-dr.com/>. Among Fulton's observations...

Sept. 29: (The Oregonian) ODOT OKs $14.3 million in sidewalk, bike projects statewide
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/odot_oks_143_million_in_sidewa.html
The Oregon Transportation Commission recently approved 13 projects totaling $14.3 million statewide that are eligible for federal money aimed at sidewalks and historic preservation projects...

Sept. 25: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Don't sacrifice farmland for development dreams
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/dont_sacrifice_farmland_for_de.html
A recent commentary by officials from the city of Cornelius implied that it can be a great little city only if it's allowed to expand its urban growth boundary ("Denying smaller cities the benefits of growth," Aug. 3)....

Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer
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