[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - January 26, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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Jan. 26: (Statesman Journal) Council advances consolidation plan for land-use code
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100126/NEWS/1260331/1001/news
It could soon be out with the old and in with the new in Salem, after council members agreed Monday to advance a proposal that would consolidate the city's land-use procedures into a new unified code...

Jan. 25: (The Oregonian) Farmers, conservation groups join to preserve farmland near Portland's suburbs
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/01/farmers_conservation_groups_jo.html
WILSONVILLE -- The region's unsettled growth questions round into view at Peter McDonald's 1870s farmhouse. All the long-range population and job projections. All the tense debate over designating land for houses, stores and factories, or for farms and forests...

Jan. 25: (Ashland Daily Tidings) New city transportation plan could reduce car use
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100125/NEWS02/1250319/-1/NEWS
The City Council has approved the creation of a $416,000 Transportation System Plan that could reduce people's reliance on cars while boosting walking, biking and riding the bus...

Jan. 25: (Ashland Daily Tidings) 'Recession extensions' at issue: Planning Commission considers extending permits by 18 months for delayed building
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100125/NEWS02/1250318/-1/NEWS
The Planning Commission will consider on Tuesday offering a "recession extension" to developers who have secured building permits but have delayed construction due to the economy...

Jan. 25: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Activist goes to work for 1000 Friends
http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_d9207e24-09ec-11df-8347-001cc4c002e0.html
Jim Just, a longtime activist on land-use issues in Linn County, has taken a part-time job with 1000 Friends of Oregon, the statewide advocacy group founded 35 years ago to support Oregon land-use laws...

Jan. 25: (Statesman Journal) City council to consider land-use code update
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100125/NEWS/1250335/1001/news
Salem City Council tonight is expected revisit a plan to clean up and make Salem's land-use regulations more user-friendly...

Jan. 25: (Corvallis Gazette-Times) New study finds increase in ocean-wave height
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_303f920a-09d2-11df-96c7-001cc4c002e0.html
A major increase in maximum ocean wave heights off the Pacific Northwest in recent decades has forced scientists to re-evaluate how high a "100-year event" might be, and the new findings raise special concerns for flooding, coastal erosion and structural damage...

Jan. 23: (Bend Bulletin) Bend seeks answers from state official on UGB denial
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100123/NEWS01/1230402
Bend city councilors said Friday they feel Land Conservation and Development Director Richard Whitman used a one-size-fits-all approach in his rejection of the city's plan for future growth...

Jan. 23: (The Oregonian) Oregon gas terminals' futures hang on global supplies
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/01/post_37.html
Five years after energy developers started sniffing around Oregon as a likely spot to build an import terminal for liquefied natural gas, the air has come flooding out of the gas market like a whoopee cushion...

Jan. 22: (OPB News) Stafford Triangle Presents Puzzle For Metro Planners
http://news.opb.org/article/6587-stafford-trangle-presents-puzzle-metro-planners/
Hundreds of people have spoken for hours at Metro meetings around the Portland area over the last week and a half...

Jan. 22: (Bend Bulletin) Remington Ranch files for Chapter 11
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100122/BIZ0102/1220360/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Remington Ranch, a Powell Butte resort where construction ended when the economic crisis began, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday...

Jan. 21: (Guest Commentary, Bend Bulletin) Where state land use department and city planners disagree
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100121/NEWS01/1210329
I read with great appreciation The Bulletin's Jan. 13 editorial ("Why boost taxes for more of this?") and thought it would be helpful to provide an additional perspective to the urban growth boundary debate...

Jan. 21: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Facebook data center to be built in Prineville
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/01/21/facebook-data-center-to-be-built-in-prineville-redv/
Facebook Inc. is growing, and it's planning to plant some roots in Oregon. And construction this year of a new $188.2 million data center may employ 200 construction workers...

Jan. 21: (Portland Tribune) Blazers get jump on coliseum plans
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=126402748494526000

Although the city has received more than 100 concepts and ideas for renovating the Memorial Coliseum, some think the deck is already stacked to favor just one submitter: the Portland Trail Blazers. The Blazers have proposed upgrading the coliseum...

Jan. 21: (Portland Tribune) The Beast has spoken: I-5 bridge commute is a mess
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=126392334523731100

Facts don't lie - the Interstate 5 bridge between Portland and Vancouver, Wash., is one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in the county. A study by The Daily Beast news Web site ranked the northbound Marine Drive area portion of I-5 as the 16th worst commute in the country...

Jan. 20: (Bend Bulletin) City to appeal state UGB report
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100121/NEWS01/1210408/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
The city of Bend will appeal the state's decision to send the city's plan for future growth back for a long list of revisions...

Jan. 20: (Daily Journal of Commerce) LNG proponents, critics hone arguments
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/01/18/lng-proponents-critics-hone-arguments-enrgy/

If liquefied natural gas is needed in Oregon like proponents say, the state certainly isn't convinced.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski's office on Tuesday delivered on its promise to challenge a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision to allow...

Jan. 20: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Centennial Mills developer calls project the 'anti-mall'
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/01/20/centennial-mills-developer-calls-project-the-anti-mall-redv/
LAB Holding founder Shaheen Sadeghi made at least one thing clear Wednesday night at an open house for the long-planned Centennial Mills project: his plan for a mixed-use center at the site of the former flour mill is not a mall...

Jan. 20: (Eugene Register-Guard) Hearing to address riverfront proposal
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24372033-41/research-park-building-riverfront-plan.csp
Opponents of a planned research building fronting the Willamette River will get their first chance to formally argue their case against the project tonight...

Jan. 20: (Eugene Register-Guard) Springfield sets sights on future land needs
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24368173-41/acres-sites-industrial-commercial-springfield.csp
SPRINGFIELD - A review of the city's industrial and commercial land suggests that Springfield's got plenty of small lots to meet its needs for the next two decades...

Jan. 20: (Coos Bay World) LNG opponents appeal decision
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/01/20/news/lng_opponents_appeal_decision_424.txt
Opponents of the liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Coos Bay's North Spit have asked federal regulators to reconsider its approval of the project...

Jan. 20: (Bend Bulletin) Details trickling out on Prineville Data center
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100120/BIZ0102/1200346/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
More details about a soon-to-be-built data center in Prineville have been released, even though the name of the company behind "Project Vitesse" remains unknown...

Jan. 19: (Wilsonville Spokesman) City to take stand on urban, rural reserves
http://www.wilsonvillespokesman.com/news/2010/January/19/City.Region/city.to.take.stand.on.urban.rural.reserves/news.aspx
As Metro councilors take to the streets, looking for public input, the area around Wilsonville still leaves many questions...

Jan. 19: (The Oregonian) Oregon challenges the feds over liquefied gas terminal
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/01/oregon_challenges_the_feds_ove.html
The state of Oregon asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday to reconsider its December decision to approve a proposed liquefied natural gas import terminal and pipeline for Coos Bay on the south-central coast....

Jan. 19: (The Oregonian) Oregon farmers push for change, public outreach
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/01/oregon_farmers_push_for_change.html
Ask Oregon farmers how the New Year is shaping up and the issues ripen faster than Barry Bushue's strawberries. But most of them don't have anything to do with actually growing crops...

Jan. 19: (The Oregonian) Portland, Vancouver political leaders say new I-5 bridge plan 'unacceptable'
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/01/_portland_vancouver_political.html
In a stinging rebuke to Gov. Ted Kulongoski's top transportation project, political leaders from Portland and Vancouver have rejected the plan for a new Interstate 5 Columbia River bridge as "unacceptable" and now seek to wrest control away from state highway planners....

Jan. 19: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Check out big ideas for I-5 interchanges
http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_c3fb41d6-053d-11df-b12b-001cc4c03286.html
Transportation officials are trying to map out improvements at Albany's Interstate 5 interchanges, and the public is being asked to take a look at the plans...

Jan. 19: (Clackamas Review) Developer eyes massive mixed-use project in Happy Valley
http://www.clackamasreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=126392957884881800
Plans are underway for the development of a two-million-square-foot mixed-use development in Happy Valley that would include housing, retail, entertainment, an amphitheatre and more near the Eagle Landing Golf Course northeast of the Interstate 205 and Sunnyside Road interchange...

Jan. 19: (Portland Tribune) Parks bureau gets serious about SE community center plan
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=126385581189964600
Six years after purchasing part of the former Washington Monroe High School for future construction of a community center, the city parks bureau is finally looking to make it a reality...

Jan. 14: (Northwest Cable News) Damascus citizens consider 'No Means No' vote on mass transit
http://www.nwcn.com/news/oregon/Damascus-citizens-consider-No-Means-No-vote-on-mass-transit-81509947.html
DAMASCUS, Ore. -- If a new city ballot measure is successful in Damascus, any future light rail projects there would be decided a vote of the people...

Jan. 14: (Editorial, Portland Tribune) Outcomes, not acres, key to urban growth boundary plan
http://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=126341692765621800
During the next few months, essential choices will be made about the region's future for the next 40 to 50 years. We hope elected leaders...

Jan. 13: (Guest Commentary, Daily Journal of Commerce) Clarification on transportation planning rule
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/01/13/clarification-on-transportation-planning-rule/
The Oregon Transportation Planning Rule is one of the land-use hurdles for applicants seeking a zone change or comprehensive plan amendment to accommodate new development...


Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer
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