[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - February 9, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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Feb. 8: (The Oregonian) Metro and 3 Portland counties approve urban expansion, farm protections
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/02/portland_leaders_ok_urban_expa.html
Metro and the three Portland-area counties rolled the dice on a collaborative future Monday, approving a long-range planning map that designates which areas will be developed and which will be reserved for farms and forests for the next 40 to 50 years...

Feb. 8: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Business owners argue against Croman Mill plan
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100208/NEWS02/2080315/-1/NEWS
Three Ashland business owners have submitted complaint letters to the Planning Commission over the Croman Mill project because they believe the project will stifle economic development in the city...

Feb. 8: (The Oregonian) Supporters cheer Oregon House vote to ban off-shore drilling for 10 years
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/02/supporters_cheer_house_vote_to.html
SALEM -- Oregon's coastal waters -- at least the 3-mile-wide strip that the state controls -- would remain off-limits to oil and gas drilling for the next decade under a bill that passed the House on Monday...

Feb. 8: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Core 4 breaks up to reach agreement
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/02/08/core-4-breaks-up-to-reach-agreement-urbp/
With a deadline looming, members of the group deciding where cities can grow for the next half-century salvaged the process Monday despite not agreeing on the future of every parcel. The Washington, Clackamas and Multnomah county commissioners now need to reach individual agreements with regional government Metro on the disputed areas...

Feb. 8: (OPB News) Metro Urban Growth Battles Growing As Vote Nears
http://news.opb.org/article/6681-metro-urban-growth-battles-growing-vote-nears/
The Portland region's contentious two-year effort to identify where urban growth should go in future decades is heating up as it nears the finish line...

Feb. 8: (Coos Bay World) Museum wants to be development catalyst
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/02/08/news/doc4b6d0f4a851a0033531929.txt
If revitalizing the Coos Bay waterfront were a high school social, the Coos Historical & Maritime Museum would be the first to ask a girl to dance...

Feb. 7: (Editorial, Medford Mail Tribune) Protect, or destroy? The goal of land-use planning can conflict with the realities of farming
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100207/OPINION/2070323/-1/NEWSMAP
Oregon's land-use laws are worthwhile when they achieve their intended purpose: to encourage growth in and around cities and discourage sprawl that replaces farmland with subdivisions. But sometimes, the reality of commercial agriculture conflicts with the ideal, and some flexibility is called for...

Feb. 7: (The Oregonian) Oregon's Steens Mountain could soon have wind farms
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/02/oregons_steens_mountain_could.html
Ruggedly beautiful Steens Mountain stands in an area of southeast Oregon so isolated that it's barely changed since cattle king Pete French arrived in the late 1800s...

Feb. 5: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Cornelius 'ground zero' of dispute
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/02/05/growth-battle-down-to-the-wire-urbp/
On a map, an agreement that could prevent major land-use fights for a half century seems tantalizingly close. On the ground near Cornelius, however, it feels like the fight of a century...

Feb. 4: (Curry County Reporter) Destination resort zoning passed by County Planning
http://www.currycountyreporter.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=5615
The Curry County Planning Commission unanimously approved a destination resort ordinance that balances environmental stewardship with the opportunity for large-scale resort development...

Feb. 3: (Daily Astorian) Cannon Beach approves disputed trailhead
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=67556
CANNON BEACH - After five hours of testimony and deliberation, the City Council approved a controversial trail in Cannon Beach Monday night...

Feb. 3: (Medford Mail Tribune) A pond or a mine? Loophole creates discord between state, county on whether gravel operation is an agricultural excavation or mining
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100203/NEWS/2030314
PROVOLT - A loophole in state law has paved the way for an unwelcome gravel operation that has state officials at odds with Jackson County over whether it should be called a mine or an agricultural pond...

Jan. 29: (Hillsboro Argus) Town meeting on Forest Grove's future on Saturday
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/1264791028309270.xml&coll=6
Forest Grove isn't just at a crossroads of Highways 8 and 47.  It's also at a crossroads in time, and in planning, with one path leading toward becoming a distant suburb of Portland and the other becoming a self-supporting town...

Jan. 29: (Newport News-Times) Lincoln City advice surprises ODOT
http://www.newportnewstimes.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=22151&page=72
Project managers for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) were caught off-guard by a Lincoln City staff report recommending changes to a U.S. Highway 101 project alignment in that city...

Jan. 27: (Editorial, Bend Bulletin) State should pay for UGB appeals
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100127/OPIN01/1270321
Can Oregon offer a better example of bureaucratic excess than the state's vaunted land use process?

Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer
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