From cliff.voliva at state.or.us Tue Jul 27 10:31:31 2010 From: cliff.voliva at state.or.us (Voliva, Cliff) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:31:31 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - July 27, 2010 Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B59170165ACCF70@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 ____________________________________________________________ July 27: (Medford Mail Tribune) Ashland planners promote bicycle use http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100727/NEWS/7270317 ASHLAND - The city's Transportation Commission has noticed an increased number of bicyclists in Ashland and is trying to make the streets safer for them... July 26: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Portland merges two commissions http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/07/26/portland-merges-two-commissions/ The city of Portland plans to combine the Portland Planning Commission with the joint city-Multnomah County Sustainability Development Commission... July 26: (Corvallis Gazette-Times) 'Natural areas' the topic of Aug. 3 forum http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_5be8faac-9949-11df-8a8c-001cc4c03286.html NORTH ALBANY - The Benton County Board of Commissioners and other county leaders will be hosting a community forum... July 26: (OPB News) Ruby Pipeline Firm Strikes Deal With Environmental Groups http://news.opb.org/article/9749-ruby-pipeline-firm-strikes-deal-environmental-groups/ The company behind a major natural gas pipeline to be built here in Oregon says it will contribute a total of $22 million to two environmental conservation funds. In return, the two groups that set up the funds say they'll drop their opposition to the project... July 26: (McMinnville News-Register) Mountain case spawns appeal http://www.newsregister.com/article/45023-mountain+case+spawns+appeal Jane Bardolf and Barbara Schaffner both testified passionately against Gale Mills' rezoning petition... July 26: (Messenger-Gazette, New Jersey) Hillsborough land-use strategy could steer development away from countryside http://www.nj.com/messenger-gazette/index.ssf/2010/07/hillsborough_land-use_strategy_could_steer_development_away_from_countryside.html HILLSBOROUGH - The township is mulling whether to adopt a state program that would allow rural landowners to transfer their development rights to places targeted by the township for future development... July 26: (Portland Tribune) Jantzen Beach SuperCenter mulls another redevelopment plan http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128012091864791100 Portland's Jantzen Beach SuperCenter is considering a redevelopment plan that would demolish most of the existing mall and make room for new restaurants and expanded stores... July 25: (Klamath Falls Herald and News) City will help acquire land http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_4617265e-97c3-11df-961b-001cc4c03286.html The city of Klamath Falls is teaming up with a local community group to acquire $1 million in grant funds to buy a stalled subdivision overlooking the Link River Canyon and the southern end of Upper Klamath Lake... July 24: (Editorial, The Oregonian) Navigating the future from West Hayden Island http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/07/navigating_the_future_from_wes.html Choosing a destiny is always hard. But it's Portland's turn. And it's no time to flinch... July 24: (McMinnville News-Register) County says yes to appeal, no on restart http://www.newsregister.com/article/45012-county+says+no+appeal+yes+restart Yamhill County will, indeed, join in challenging state Land Use Board of Appeals rejection of a Riverbend Landfill expansion plan, the board of commissioners decided Wednesday... July 24: (Newberg Graphic) County appeals landfill decision http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2010/July/23/Local.News/county.appeals.landfill.decision/news.aspx McMINNVILLE - The Yamhill County Board of Commissioners has elected not to pursue a change to the county comprehensive plan, but will appeal the recent verdict of the state Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) blocking expansion of Riverbend Landfill... July 24: (Guest Commentary, Kansas City Star) Moving toward becoming 'an intelligent city' http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/24/2104696/moving-toward-becoming-an-intelligent.html Nearly 100 years ago, Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols wrote, "an intelligent city plan thinks impartially for all parts of the city at the same time, and does not forget the greater needs of tomorrow in the press of today..." July 23: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Property owners ask city to rezone land http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_e9e28f92-968f-11df-bc72-001cc4c002e0.html The owners of slightly less than an acre on the north side of 16th Avenue between Davidson and Waverly Drive in Albany are looking to rezone the site from office to residential... July 23: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Video rental stores' demise leaves space up for grabs http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/07/23/video-rental-stores-demise-leaves-space-up-for-grabs/ When video retail chains Hollywood Video and Blockbuster began closing Portland-area stores, local real estate professionals expected to struggle to fill the vacant spaces. But it hasn't been that difficult... July 23: (Commentary, Daily Journal of Commerce) Twitter, social media help public involvement process http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/07/23/twitter-social-media-help-public-involvement-process/ When writing a story earlier this week on the public involvement process for development projects receiving public support in Portland, I had more information than I could possibly fit in the story... July 22: (Editorial, Medford Mail Tribune) The little city that still isn't http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100722/OPINION/7220309/-1/OPINION02 It's not surprising that supporters of incorporating White City fell short of the number of signatures they needed to place the proposal on the November ballot... July 22: (Portland Tribune) Lake Oswego envisions its next 100 years http://www.portlandtribune.com/metro_news/story.php?story_id=127974990256395500 When celebrating its past at the Centennial Celebration on Saturday, the city of Lake Oswego remained forward thinking by asking citizens to envision a vibrant and sustainable future... July 22: (Portland Tribune) City will consider island's future http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127975206796922200 A long-running tussle between environmentalists and the Port of Portland on the fate of west Hayden Island is shifting to the Portland City Council after a task force deadlocked about whether nature and marine terminals can coexist on the undeveloped 831-acre site... July 22: (Medford Mail Tribune) Initiative to incorporate White City got 'halfway' http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100722/NEWS/7220317 Not enough signatures have been gathered to qualify a White City incorporation initiative for the November ballot.... July 22: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Development tries to pass buck to Tigard http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/07/22/county-development-tries-to-pass-services-buck-to-tigard/ Developing a greenfield is always a challenge. But when developing one outside an incorporated area or city, that challenge grows. Washington County has grand plans for its next urban area... July 22: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Environmentalists, developers compromise http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/07/22/environmentalists-wind-developers-strike-compromise/ When Pacific Wind Power, a Central Oregon company, decided to build a wind farm 30 miles east of Bend, the father-daughter team developing the project knew it would face opposition from local environmental groups eager to preserve the desert landscape... July 21: (Portland Tribune) Forest Grove readies push for big UGB expansion http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127969639029268800 When Metro planners started asking around at city halls across the region about a how much land local leaders might want to bring inside the urban growth boundary near their city limits, the general response on the east side was ho-hum... July 21: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Court strikes decision on Measure 37 development waivers http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100721/NEWS02/7210311/-1/NEWSMAP A federal court ruling Tuesday dashed the hopes of owners of 571 Jackson County properties who received waivers to develop land under Oregon's Measure 37... July 21: (The Oregonian) Appeals court ruling may snuff out Oregon property rights claim http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/07/appeals_court_ruling_may_snuff.html A federal appeals court may have doused a legal theory that threatened to blow up the uneasy truce on Oregon's land-use battlefield... 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: