From cliff.voliva at state.or.us Tue Nov 3 09:25:14 2009 From: cliff.voliva at state.or.us (Voliva, Cliff) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:25:14 -0800 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - November 3, 2009 Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B5917F697F82F@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 Nov. 2: (The Oregonian) Pearl District wins award for brownfield redevelopment http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/pearl_district_wins_award_for.html The Canadian Urban Institute has honored Portland for the Pearl District redevelopment. The city and Portland Development Commission received a Special Recognition Award... Nov. 2: (Bend Bulletin) Software firm can stay at Bend airport http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091103/NEWS01/911030381/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=news01 A Deschutes County official approved a conditional use permit Friday to allow a small software development business to remain at the Bend Municipal Airport... Nov. 2: (The Oregonian) Note to Portland transportation planners: Not everyone can ride transit http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/note_to_portland_transportatio.html Metro's proposed Regional Transportation Plan for the Portland area emphasizes the need to provide transportation options that will get people out of their cars. But as always, the devil is in the details.... Nov. 2: (OPB News) Tree Farmers May Profit From Climate Regulation http://news.opb.org/article/6131-tree-farmers-may-profit-climate-regulation/ Some airlines are starting to do it. Some Northwest ski resorts, too. Not to mention event organizers. They're inviting people like you to pay a little bit extra to offset the global warming pollution... Oct. 31: (The Oregonian) Portland-area builders shift to small, efficient homes http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/portland-area_builders_shift_t.html Renaissance Homes will pull back from Bend to focus on its core markets in Portland's affluent suburbs. Buena Vista Custom Homes will abandon 5,000-square-foot ramblers for homes one-third the size and half the price... Oct. 31: (The Oregonian) Contamination at Umatilla clouds land-use issue http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/contamination_at_umatilla_clou.html HERMISTON -- With the Army on track to destroy the last of the deadly mustard agents at its Umatilla Chemical Depot in 2011 and return the sprawling property to public use, developers from ports to tribes are drawing up plans... Oct. 31: (The Oregonian) LNG developers push back plans to 2011 for North Spit of Coos Bay http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/lng_developers_push_back_plans.html COOS BAY -- Developers hoping to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the North Spit of Coos Bay have pushed back plans to start construction until spring 2011... Oct. 30: (The Oregonian) Linking a sustainable Portland with how fair it is to all http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/expert_says_portlands_sustaina.html Everyone tells us we're great. We recycle, use trains and buses, capture our rainwater, support local farmers and protect our wetlands. The urban growth boundary around metropolitan Portland keeps sprawl on a leash and farmland protected. We're so sustainable that scholars and land-use planners come from all over to gawk and gush... Oct. 30: (Eugene Register-Guard) Historic hassle: 263 Cottage Grove homes at center of labeling controversy http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/22184363-35/story.csp COTTAGE GROVE - James Henry McFarland arrived here with his brother John in the summer of 1853, buying land and establishing a cemetery on the north side of what's now known as McFarland's Butte, becoming one of the founders of Cottage Grove... Oct. 30: (Roseburg News-Review) Forum focuses on driving down emissions http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091030/NEWS/910309979/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055 Reducing carbon footprints and going green is all the rage right now for many people. However, those who are working toward a leaner, greener Earth... Oct. 29: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Taking voters to school in Vernonia http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/29/taking-voters-to-school/ The Vernonia School District expects voters next week to pass a $13 million bond to help pay for construction of a new $37 million LEED-platinum school outside the flood plain where high waters destroyed one district school and damaged two others in 2007... Oct. 29: (Capital Press) Farmer works to make Umatilla basin bloom http://www.capitalpress.com/orewash/ml-levy-innovator-103009-art HERMISTON, Ore. -- On either side of Feedville Road just south of Hermiston are two fields farmed by Oregon State Board of Agriculture Chairman Bob Levy. On one, where Levy has a full season's access to water, a potato crop is sprouting that could gross upwards of $3,500 an acre... Oct. 29: (Guest Commentary, Lake Oswego Review) City's zoning, land use create attainable housing barriers http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=125676847870522500 I would like to commend Paul Lyons, Ralph Tahran, city Councilor Roger Hennagin and other Lake Oswego volunteers for focusing the community's attention on "attainable housing..." Oct. 29: (Bend Bulletin) Thornburgh resort faces foreclosure http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/NEWS01/910290390/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 A firm that loaned $11.3 million to the manager and CEO of the proposed 1,970-acre Thornburgh resort near Cline Buttes has initiated foreclosure proceedings on the resort property, which is currently owned by a member of the Thornburgh family... Oct. 29: (Bend Bulletin) States pushes development on disputed site near Bend http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/NEWS01/910290392/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 SALEM - Neighbors and visitors should not be alarmed by the scary-sounding signs soon to sprout on a plot of land on the southeast edge of Bend - even though they warn of asbestos and a "potential health hazard..." Oct. 29: (Bend Bulletin) Hooker Creek silos are OK'd to stay put http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091029/BIZ0102/910290362/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 When construction began in 1996 on the Bend Parkway, proponents promised an efficient way to speed traffic through the city as well as eye-popping views of the Cascades as the parkway cut past the Old Mill District... Oct. 29: (The Oregonian) Agri-tainment offers fun on the farm, with a side of conflict http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2009/10/agri-tainment_offers_fun_on_th.html Lunchtime at Leaping Lamb Farm in Alsea and a toddler scrambles around the henhouse looking for eggs. By the end of the day, this urban tyke will feed sheep and horses... Oct. 28: (Portland Tribune) Council adopts aggressive Climate Action Plan http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125678469206117000 Portland's City Council approved Wednesday afternoon a 40-year plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions, voting 4-0 to enact one of most ambitious programs in the nation, if not the world, to counter global warming... Oct. 28: (McMinnville News-Register) Friedman wins top SWCD award http://www.newsregister.com/article/42058-friedman+wins+top+swcd+award Decades of work to protect farmland and his stewardship of his own rural Yamhill acreage have earned Sid Friedman the Yamhill Soil & Water Conservation District's major annual award Cooperator of the Year... Oct. 28: (Daily Journal of Commerce) City, county consider climate goals http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/28/city-county-consider-climate-goals/ Emissions-reduction efforts in Portland and Multnomah County have been a success by one measure: the area has reduced its per-capita greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent since 2000... Oct. 28: (Daily Journal of Commerce) PSU eager to share resource http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/28/psu-eager-to-share-resource/ At the Green Building Research Lab at Portland State University, researchers have all of the tools they need to build a better building... Oct. 28: (KOHD-TV, Bend) CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO OREGON LAWS http://kohd.com/page/146878 Sitting in front of the Deschutes County Commissioners, David Hurtley waits for a decision. He says his future retirement is on the line... Oct. 28: (The Oregonian) PSU, city planners to discuss Eco-district for campus area http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/psu_city_planners_to_discuss_e.html A handful of downtown city blocks including parts of Portland State University and other nearby acres could become united in an Eco-district, a neighborhood where properties share utilities and other infrastructure... Oct. 28: (The Oregonian) Proposed Fanno Creek Trail extension upsets Beaverton neighborhood http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2009/10/proposed_fanno_creek_trail_ext.html BEAVERTON - Patty Russell lugs a blue tote bag out of a back room in her house on Rollingwood Avenue and decades worth of letters, meeting minutes and maps spill out... Oct. 28: (The Oregonian) Portland adopts ambitious goal to reduce area's carbon footprint http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_adopts_ambitious_goal.html In Portland in 2050, the population will be almost double what it is today. So when local leaders say that's their target date to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent of what they were in 1990... Oct. 27: (The Oregonian) I-5 connector between Wilsonville and Sherwood hits snag http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/10/i-5_connector_between_wilsonvi.html With only weeks for the region's southwest suburban governments to finalize funding requests for major transportation projects, the fate of a long-planned connector between Interstate 5 and Oregon 99W remains as unresolved as ever... Oct. 27: (Medford Mail Tribune) City plans new streets in west Medford http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091027/NEWS/910270330/-1/COMM01 West Medford residents could see the number of neighborhood roadways more than double in 20 years, based on a proposal city officials are developing to ease congestion and provide alternate transportation.... Oct. 27: (The Oregonian) City's climate plan is ready for action http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/citys_climate_plan_is_ready_fo.html After eight town hall meetings, more than 400 responders and some 2,500 comments and suggestions, Portland's Climate Action Plan is ready for review... Oct. 24: (Coos Bay World) Ex-mill site sees activity http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/10/24/news/doc4ae2afd7bdff7948885030.txt Developers are starting to move dirt that has sat untouched for almost 20 years at the old Georgia-Pacific mill site in Coquille... 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