[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - April 13, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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April 13: (AP, Ashland Daily Tidings) Oregon land board rejects LNG project
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100413/NEWS02/4130313/-1/NEWS
For the second time, an Oregon state land board has rejected Clatsop County's approval of the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas terminal near the mouth of the Columbia River...

April 12: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Historic building inventory effort gets funding
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/04/12/historic-building-inventory-effort-gets-funding/
Portland's Bureau of Planning & Sustainability is receiving $34,000 to manage the city's historic preservation efforts...

April 9: (Bend Bulletin) Family, friends stand up for Cyrus
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100409/NEWS01/4090392/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Deschutes County planning commissioners did something unusual at Thursday night's meeting: Each one declared he had not been influenced by another commissioner's personal interests...

April 9: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Business community split on Croman plan
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100409/NEWS02/4090312/-1/NEWS
Members of the business community have mixed views about whether the Croman Mill Site Redevelopment Plan would spur job creation or over-regulate and stall business growth on Ashland's largest chunk of undeveloped land...

April 8: (Portland Tribune) Beaverton development code: Changes could trigger business boost
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127074710197581400
Beaverton is nearing the end of the two-year process to update Chapter 20 of the city's development code. For the average person, this doesn't mean much. Residential zoning regulation remains largely unchanged. But the city is hoping that code changes for industrial and commercial uses...

April 8: (The Oregonian) Big buoy will help determine the future of wave energy off the Oregon coast
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/04/big_buoy_will_help_determine_t.html
NEWPORT - Two and a half years after a wave energy test buoy sank off Newport, the drive to harness energy from the ocean is heating up again with plans for at least one buoy to be deployed off the central coast before the year's end...

April 7: (Baker City Herald) Idaho Power puts Baker route in its application
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Idaho-Power-puts-Baker-route-in-its-application
Idaho Power Company has affirmed that it prefers a route that passes near the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center for the major transmission line the company wants to build starting in 2013...

April 7: (Guest Commentary, Daily Journal of Commerce) Oregon Supreme Court identifies potential water rights for farmers
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/04/07/oregon-supreme-court-identifies-potential-water-rights-for-farmers/
The great Klamath River basin water war intensified this month when the Oregon Supreme Court responded to a series of certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In Klamath Irrigation District v. United States...

April 7: (Hermiston Herald) Environmentalists, growers agree on using dry land
http://hermistonherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=13639&TM=58538.1
Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on something: that thousands of acres of cracked, salty farmland is the perfect site for a sprawling utility-scale solar farm...

April 7: (Statesman Journal) Changes to building caps opposed
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100407/NEWS/4070459/1001/news
Keizer city leaders Monday approved a $1.4 dollar land sale and $1.36 million land purchase - but those big-money issues did not draw the crowd that a proposed text amendment did...

April 6: (Hillsboro Argus) Combating global warming
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/127057804886280.xml&coll=6
PORTLAND - Global warming can't be stopped. Climate change can't be reversed. But regional leaders listening to a Nobel laureate...
April 6: (The Oregonian) Power corridor will spare Grant County, Ontario under new plan
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/power_corridor_will_spare_gran.html
LA GRANDE -- A power company's preferred route for a 299-mile "big extension cord" power line through eastern Oregon to Idaho will bypass both Grant County and a prosperous onion-growing area near Ontario -- both hotbeds of opposition to the project...

April 6: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Molalla fee waiver lures developers
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/04/06/molalla-fee-waiver-lures-developers/
Molalla City Council took a gamble in December when it approved the waiver of up to $1 million in system development charges<http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/04/06/djc-dictionary-system-development-charge/> to lure potential developers. Now, two Molalla development partners plan to take all of that money...

April 2: (Wall Street Journal) Oregon Pear Growers Sour on Land Law
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303960604575158080659141248.html?KEYWORDS=oregon+pear+industry
MEDFORD, Ore.-Farmers say conditions in southern Oregon's Rogue River Valley are among the best in the world for raising pears. Yet for the past decade, acreage planted in pears has been halved, as has the number of growers...

Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer
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