[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - February 23, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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Feb. 23: (Coos Bay World) Realtors see big jump in market
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/02/23/news/doc4b82d97098a52946337247.txt
Coos County's real estate market greatly improved last month, when compared with January 2009. Sales activity jumped 76.2 percent...

Feb. 23: (McMinnville News-Register) Land use hearing produces heated exchanges
http://www.newsregister.com/article/43397-land+use+hearing+produces+heated+exchanges
A bid to rezone 52 acres of Chehalem Mountain for five houses spurred a heated public hearing Wednesday...

Feb. 22: (Klamath Falls Herald and News) Plant would bring jobs to Chiloquin
http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2010/02/23/top_story/doc4b837f489b63e803032789.txt
CHILOQUIN - A proposed $16 million manufacturing plant at the former Chiloquin Mill site that would provide 100 jobs should be financed, a feasibility study indicates. P&M Plastics of New Mexico wants to build a 20,000-square-foot plant that would manufacture Altree, a wood plastic composite made from juniper wood chips and other recycled materials...

Feb. 22: (Baker City Herald) Idaho Power rules affect landowners along Brownlee
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Idaho-Power-rules-affect-landowners-along-Brownlee
Landowners along Brownlee Reservoir whose homes, sheds or fences encroach on Idaho Power property within 8 feet of the high water line will have to move the structures or pay a $100-per-year lease fee starting this year...

Feb. 22: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Some fear bridge will lead to sprawl
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/02/22/some-fear-bridge-will-lead-to-sprawl/
Despite rapid development in the area, Pioneer Street in Ridgefield, Wash., is distant from the congestion of Portland and Vancouver, Wash. Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams glow white, while red-winged blackbirds claim patches of wetlands between lots in mostly empty subdivisions...

Feb. 21: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Steens Mountain wind turbines are wake-up call to Oregonians
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/02/steens_mountain_wind_turbines.html
News that multiple wind farms are planned on the north flank of Steens Mountain should be a wake-up call to Oregonians. Flocks of wind turbines on such an iconic landmark are more than a cloud on the horizon. They're an approaching storm...

Feb. 19: (Editorial, The Oregonian) Move ahead on the Columbia Crossing
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/02/move_ahead_on_the_columbia_cro.html
It is a classic of governance that, at the tail end of an exhaustive public process, some critics will awaken and wail: "Stop! Why didn't you tell us about this before?"

Feb. 19: (The Oregonian) Helvetia persuades planners to preserve its farmland by hewing to motto: Don't be boring
http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2010/02/helvetia_persuades_planners_to.html
HILLSBORO -- You don't hear a lot of yodeling at government meetings. But last year, Helvetia residents faced a seemingly impossible task -- persuade Washington County and Hillsboro leaders to take 10,000 acres of undulating farmland off their list of land destined for urban development...

Feb. 19: (Medford Mail Tribune) Revised Lithia project approved
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100219/NEWS/2190324
The Medford City Council gave final approval Thursday to a downsized plan to revitalize downtown and build corporate headquarters for Lithia Motors...

Feb. 18: (USA Today) Oregon is first U.S. site for a wave-power farm
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2010-02-16-wave-energy_N.htm
The search for clean, renewable energy is turning toward the ocean, but not without some waves of skepticism. Construction has begun off Oregon on what would be the nation's first commercial wave-energy farm...

Feb. 17: (The Oregonian) Oregon, Washington governors call for no delay on I-5 bridge project
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/02/oregon_washington_governors_re.html
The governors of Oregon and Washington on Wednesday appeared to harden their position on a plan for a $3.6 billion Interstate 5 bridge, saying the project should proceed without delay and that state highway planners are working in good faith to address local concerns about pollution, sprawl and costly tolls...

Feb. 17: (The Oregonian) Portland City Council pushes PGE Park neighborhood agreement, new transportation plan
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/02/portland_city_council_pushes_p.html
The paperwork moves apace at City Hall on the renovation of PGE Park as a venue for Major League Soccer by April 2011...

Feb. 17: (Eugene Register-Guard) Development plans derailed
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/business/24468446-41/bank-development-mattox-meadows-project.csp
Dreams of the first thoroughgoing "nodal" planned community in Eugene - dubbed Royal Meadows - have crashed amid paperwork delays and a flaccid economy...

Feb. 17: (AP, Ashland Daily Tidings) NOAA drops appeal of LNG port
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100217/NEWS02/2170313/-1/news
GRANTS PASS - The Obama administration won't appeal federal approval of a liquefied natural gas port on the lower Columbia River...

Feb. 15: (Coos Bay World) Port Orford compromises on marine reserves
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/02/15/news/doc4b798887aed0c866276525.txt
COQUILLE - Coos County could learn from Port Orford's example. Two of the smartest fishermen in Oregon paid a visit to Coquille on Saturday to talk about the town's success finding a compromise over marine reserves...

Feb. 10: (Tillamook Headlight-Herald) New flood maps under scrutiny
http://tillamookheadlightherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=8&ArticleID=13048&TM=39129.75
New flood insurance rate maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have Tillamook city and county officials worried. They're concerned that some property owners may not be able to purchase flood insurance if the new maps are approved...

Feb. 9: (Tillamook Headlight-Herald) Tillamook looks to Third St. for growth
http://tillamookheadlightherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=8&ArticleID=13019&TM=39129.75
TILLAMOOK - One of this city's busiest - and bumpiest - roads may soon get a facelift, thereby laying the foundation for Tillamook to develop eastward...

Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer
Director's Office
Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development
635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540
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