From cliff.voliva at state.or.us Thu Jun 10 07:57:59 2010 From: cliff.voliva at state.or.us (Voliva, Cliff) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:57:59 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - June 10, 2010 Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B5917015DCD2F9A@dlcdsxch01> Welcome to the Land Use News e-mail list! Land Use News is an electronic news clipping service provided by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development. Land Use News emphasizes local reporting and commentary on land use in Oregon and other states. The links to copyrighted news stories in Land Use News are not archived by DLCD, and the archiving policies of these sources vary. The stories, if available, reside on the site of the original news source. Please direct requests for archived stories, or permission to reprint them, to the original news source. Past Land Use News weekly e-mails can be found here: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/landuse-news Anyone can subscribe to the free service by visiting this site: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/landuse-news ____________________________________________________________ June 5: (Albany Democrat-Herald) The final straw http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_9c82c264-712b-11df-a503-001cc4c002e0.html Andrew Martin is beating his plowshare into a sword, and he's using it to cut his ties with his hometown. Frustrated with what he sees as an overly restrictive and inflexible land development code... June 4: (Tualatin Times) Tualatin to expand notifications for land-use decisions http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=127553120778354600 It seemed to happen a lot of the last couple years: Tualatin residents would show up at a council meeting, upset over a project - the racket club, a hospital expansion - that they said they had no idea was happening... June 3: (Editorial, The Oregonian) Refining the I-5 crossing http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/06/refining_the_i-5_crossing.html It appears that the Columbia River Crossing planning process is now moving in a promising direction, bridging communities rather than dividing them. This is a welcome shift in tone that signals that the bridge may actually be built... May 26: (Roseburg News-Review) Committee discusses Roseburg sustainability plan http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20100526/NEWS/100529819 For Roseburg to become a more sustainable community, the city has to take the lead by implementing its own sustainable practices. This was a consensus Tuesday at the first meeting of an 11-member citizen advisory committee... May 25: (Roseburg News-Review) Roseburg approves school district plan http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20100525/NEWS/100529847/1001 Roseburg's adoption of a 10-year forecast for Roseburg School District facilities has prompted the city to examine how to improve pedestrian access to district schools... Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer Director's Office Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development 635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540 Office: (503) 373-0050 ext. 268 | Fax: (503) 378-5518 cliff.voliva at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/LCD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: