[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - April 20, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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April 20: (Statesman Journal) City supports purchase of S. Salem land
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100420/NEWS/4200330/1001
Salem City Council decided Monday night to amend the Parks and Transportation Master Plans to support the acquisition of 30 acres at the former Battle Creek Golf Course and establish Battle Creek Park...

April 20: (Bend Bulletin) County OK's 19th Street extension
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100420/NEWS01/4200425/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
Deschutes County commissioners voted 2-1 to add the 19th Street extension to the county's road development plan Monday, after residents of nearby neighborhoods and a land use watchdog group said some commissioners did not appear to be listening to opponents of the project...

April 19: (Klamath Falls Herald and News) Projects stymied by land use code
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_b5098d24-4c44-11df-b018-001cc4c03286.html
Inconsistencies in Klamath County's land-use planning code were among reasons developers decided not to build a big box store in a pasture at Washburn and the Southside Expressway...

April 19: (Statesman Journal) Park plan back on course?
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100419/NEWS/4190311/1001/news
Salem City Council will take another look tonight at plans to create a park on part of the former Battle Creek Golf Course...

April 19: (Statesman Journal) Keizer to consider building limits
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100419/NEWS/4190332/1001/news
Keizer City Council tonight will continue a public hearing about changes to building caps in Keizer Station. Public outcry at a public hearing April 5 prompted the City Council to continue the hearing tonight on a text amendment to soften restrictions on retail building caps in the Keizer Station Master Plan...

April 18: (The Dalles Chronicle) Planning commission ponders manufactured homes
http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2010/04/news04-18-10-03.shtml
When the city makes the next revision in it's Land Use and Development Ordinances (LUDOs) it will contain more precise language in the section about placement of manufactured homes on lots in the city...

April 17: (The Oregonian) Renting helps new farmers grow their businesses
http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2010/04/renting_helps_new_farmers_in_g.html
HILLSBORO -- All day long, Steve Radtke works on land that is not his. If he could, he would own the ground he tills and harvests. But acres aren't easy to come by these days, so Radtke pursues his farming dreams on someone else's soil...

April 17: (Ashland Daily Tidings) OSPIRG event raises awareness of transportation costs
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100417/NEWS02/4170312/-1/NEWS
The average Ashland household spends more than 28 percent of its income, about $10,000, on transportation annually, the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group says...

April 15: (Bend Bulletin) Deschutes may study resorts
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100415/NEWS01/4150387/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
A Deschutes County commissioner is pushing for a study of the economic costs and benefits of destination resorts, in response to contradictory reports on the issue by resort operators and a land use watchdog group...

April 14: (Baker City Herald) County debates building rules
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/County-debates-building-rules
A debate over a proposal to loosen regulations on building homes on some private lands in Baker County is proving to be a bottleneck in the effort to update the county's zoning ordinance...

April 11: (The Oregonian) Damascus advisory committee members resign, saying city officials routinely withheld needed information
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/04/damascus_advisory_committee_me.html
The entire membership of a Damascus citizen advisory committee resigned this week because city officials routinely withheld information the group needed to help plan for the new city, the group's former chairwoman said Friday...

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