[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - June 3, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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June 1: (Medford Mail Tribune) Central Point may relax its zoning codes
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100601/NEWS/6010317
CENTRAL POINT - City officials are hopeful that making some changes in commercial zoning codes will spark development after a recent dry spell. The changes also might lure a big-box retailer to town...

June 1: (AP, Ashland Daily Tidings) Oregon town plans first tsunami-resistant building
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100601/NEWS02/6010310/-1/NEWS
CORVALLIS - An Oregon coastal town hopes to put its new City Hall on stilts and become the first U.S. city to raise a municipal building to withstand the major earthquake and tsunami that scientists say are coming sooner rather than later...

May 30: (Medford Mail Tribune) Advocacy groups suggest increasing population density http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100530/NEWS/5300325
A trio of land-use watchdog organizations say a proposal to eventually add 8,500 acres around six Jackson County cities would gobble up too much farmland...

May 27: (The Oregonian) Wind farm near Boardman has six months to quiet down, Morrow County planners say
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/wind_farm_near_boardman_has_si.html
HEPPNER -- The Morrow County Planning Commission voted to give the owners of a wind farm six months to comply with state noise regulations...

May 27: (OPB News) Oregon Wind Farm Violates State Noise Regulations
http://news.opb.org/article/7457-oregon-wind-farm-violates-state-noise-regulations/
People living near the Willow Creek wind farm in Morrow Country felt the winds shift in their favor this week. Tuesday night The Morrow County Planning Commission found the plant in violation of state noise regulations...

May 26: (OPB News) Bend Suffers Biggest Decline In Home Prices In U.S.
http://news.opb.org/article/7445-bend-suffers-biggest-decline-home-prices-us/
Homeowners across Oregon are grappling with collapsing home prices, but nowhere is the depreciation felt more acutely than in the Bend area...

May 26: (Eugene Register-Guard) No counting chickens: For now, Eugene suspends a limit on the number of backyard fowl
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24833092-41/chickens-chicken-eugene-friendly-ordinance.csp
Robin Scott relaxed when she heard that Eugene officials have suspended the city's two-chicken limit. Scott and her husband keep six chickens at their Friendly neighborhood home...

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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