[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - January 5, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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Jan. 5: (Statesman Journal) Salem planning panel to address West Salem school sites
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100105/NEWS/1050334/1001/NEWS
The proposed location of two new schools off Orchard Heights Road NW in West Salem will be discussed today at the Salem Planning Commission, and residents can voice their thoughts during a public hearing then...

Jan. 4: (The Oregonian) Energy regulators up timeline for liquid gas terminal
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/01/energy_regulators_up_timeline.html
The molasses-slow regulatory process governing proposed liquefied natural gas projects in Oregon moves to the high burner this week after federal energy regulators told their fisheries counterparts to get on with their analysis of whether the Bradwood Landing LNG terminal and pipeline would jeopardize endangered species...

Jan. 4: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Developments are ruining area, Eugene residents say
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100104/NEWS02/1040324/-1/NEWS
EUGENE - Deborah Healey said a successful year in her neighborhood is measured by how much tear gas is administered. A good week is when her blue- and white-trimmed home doesn't shake from a car's speaker bass...

Jan. 4: (The Oregonian) Measure 37 case heads to Oregon Supreme Court
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/01/oregon_supreme_court_gets_the.html
Dorothy English is gone but not forgotten, and not fully litigated, either. Oregon's longest-running property rights case, involving the late "poster girl" of Measure 37, will be taken up Wednesday by the Oregon Supreme Court...

Jan. 4: (The Oregonian) Portland-area counties close to designating land for urban and rural reserves
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/01/portland-area_counties_closing.html
The Portland area's two-year quest to make long-range designations for urban development and farms and forests is chugging to a close, with a final round of meetings this month and a collective decision by Metro and its county partners in February...

Jan. 4: (OPB News) Oregon's Land Use Planners Face The New Year
http://news.opb.org/article/6474-oregons-land-use-planners-face-new-year/
Ten years ago, Oregon's land-use planners were bracing for a seismic shift. The last of those tremors may subside in the early part of this year. A series of ballot measures...

Jan. 4: (Eugene Register-Guard) Web site to serve 'rural Northwest'
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24312405-41/rural-site-web-agency-communities.csp
A Eugene-based nonprofit agency has unveiled a new Web site designed to be a platform for the "views and voices of the rural Northwest..."

Jan. 4: (Eugene Register-Guard) Crest Drive: A tight squeeze
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24282346-41/streets-crest-drive-street-bus.csp
Unlike most streets, the newly rebuilt section of Crest Drive in south Eugene is not designed to make life easy for drivers. The narrow width...

Jan. 2: (Capital Press) Winery shindigs raise land-use questions
http://www.capitalpress.com/oregon/ml-winery-flap-122509-art
PORTLAND -- Can an Oregon winery hold a concert or host a wedding party on the farm? The answer depends on whom you ask...

Jan. 1: (Editorial, The Oregonian) The Northwest discovers that the once-scorned timber industry is better than the alternative: rural subdivisions
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/01/the_northwest_discovers_that_t.html
For 20 years, the Northwest all but demonized timberland owners, blaming them for everything from landslides to the demise of salmon...

Jan. 1: (Daily Astorian) State board rejects LNG foes' challenge
http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=66826
The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals has rejected a challenge filed by Bradwood Landing LNG opponents, clearing the way for the board to rule on the two land-use issues that were remanded back to the county...

Jan. 1: (Los Angeles Times) Federal agencies may have to consider climate before they act
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-climate-nepa1-2010jan01,0,438175.story
WASHINGTON - The White House is poised to order all federal agencies to evaluate any major actions they take, such as building highways or logging national forests, to determine how they would contribute to and be affected by climate change, a step long sought by environmentalists...

Dec. 31: (Portland Tribune) River fight ignites again
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=126220977694258500
Comments by a top Portland official are increasing business-related concerns about an ambitious city plan intended to improve the environmental and economic vitality in and around the Portland harbor...

Dec. 31: (Portland Tribune) Streetcar project sees five options identified
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=126220605429121700
The Portland to Lake Oswego Transit project is inching forward as Metro identifies five areas with additional options for streetcar routes...

Dec. 30: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Greening zoning codes to match city's sustainable mindset
http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/12/30/greening-zoning-codes-to-match-citys-sustainable-mindset/
Portland has a reputation of being at the cutting edge of sustainable building and design. But its current zoning codes that regulate installations of solar panels, eco-roofs and other energy-efficient technologies on new and existing buildings are behind the times...

Dec. 30: (Oregon City News) Clackamas County drops sewer lawsuit
http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=126220024344962500
Clackamas County has dropped its lawsuit against Milwaukie over maintenance at the Kellogg Treatment Plant despite not having received the permits that instigated the litigation...

Dec. 29: (Portland Tribune) Students wow Rockwood with ideas
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=126213403836079600
About half a year ago, Gresham urban renewal leaders parted ways with a promising developer whose vision for Rockwood didn't agree with theirs. Now, some of those same leaders are wide-eyed in amazement and awe at what a group of college students have proposed for the same area...

Dec. 29: (Corvallis Gazette-Times) Albany wins preliminary round in Gatorade suit
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_bdde2878-f50b-11de-974c-001cc4c002e0.html
ALBANY - The city of Albany has won another preliminary round in its $105 million lawsuit against the makers of Gatorade for breaking a contract to build a factory in the city...

Dec. 29: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Lebanon keeps growing
http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_5f6747d0-f4ba-11de-a3d0-001cc4c03286.html
LEBANON - Twenty years ago, when the bottom fell out of the timber and wood products industry, Lebanon faced bleak times. Downtown storefronts were empty and unemployment was rampant...

Dec. 29: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Urban growth boundary: an opportunity ripe for job creation
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/12/urban_growth_boundary_an_oppor.html
Much has been written recently about the correlation in this region between land and infrastructure on the one hand and jobs and economic growth on the other -- for two good reasons...

Dec. 29: (The Oregonian) Bandon's waterfront: retail shops or marine industrial facility?
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/bandons_waterfront_retail_shop.html
BANDON - In a dispute over the fate of a 1.28-acre chunk of coastal waterfront, the Port of Bandon and Pacific Seafood Group will try mediation to settle their differences....

Dec. 28: (Coos Bay World) Sidewalk crew finds artifacts
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2009/12/28/news/doc4b38f2f76da45763850020.txt
BANDON - Pouring concrete for a new sidewalk doesn't seem to be a complicated endeavor, unless it's in Old Town Bandon. When city workers recently began digging...

Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer
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Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development
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