[LandUse-News] Land Use News from DLCD - September 28, 2010

[Voliva, Cliff]

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Sept. 28: (Statesman Journal) Council OKs allowing hens in backyards
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100928/NEWS/9280341/1001
Salem residents will in the not-too-distant future have the freedom to keep chickens - but not roosters - in their backyard...

Sept. 28: (Bend Bulletin) County looks at Deschutes Junction
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100928/NEWS01/9280388/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
The Deschutes County Commission will discuss Wednesday whether to re-evaluate a previous county decision that limited commercial development at Deschutes Junction between Bend and Redmond, at the request of the county Planning Commission and some property owners...

Sept. 27: (Portland Tribune) serted Sizzler space makes way for plaza
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128552613544273000
Metro and the Portland Development Commission plan on spending nearly $800,000 to turn a deserted restaurant across the street from the Oregon Convention Center into a landscaped plaza for convention-related and public events...

Sept. 27: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Oregon questions its land use system
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/27/oregon-questions-its-land-use-system/
Oregon has earned a reputation for maintaining one of the nation's most extensive land use systems. But city, county and state officials all admit that the 37-year-old system, which has earned widespread admiration, is far from perfect...

Sept. 25: (Coos Bay World) Preparing marine reserve proposals
http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_f5cd7436-c86f-11df-ade6-001cc4c002e0.html
The public soon will get a chance to comment on three proposals for marine reserves and marine protected areas in the Cape Arago area...

Sept. 25: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Farm, forest lands protected, but not always for that use
http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_cce57a70-c854-11df-8a69-001cc4c03286.html
CORVALLIS - More than 35 years after Oregon began one of the nation's most ambitious land use planning programs, a new study suggests it's still difficult to demonstrate that it has accomplished one of its primary goals - protecting agricultural lands and a thriving forest, farm and ranching industry...

Sept. 25: (Albany Democrat-Herald) City seeks input on hazard plan
http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_2e6940bc-c853-11df-9146-001cc4c03286.html
The city of Albany is updating its Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan and the public is invited to review and comment on a draft during a meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, at Albany City Hall...

Sept. 24: (Dailj Journal of Commerce) PSU students tackle Northwest Portland site
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/24/psu-students-tackle-northwest-portland-site/
Hungry developers, city officials and property owners all have contributed ideas about how to transform Portland's largest undeveloped urban site. Now, a group of six Portland State University graduate students have come up with their own plan for the 22-acre...

Sept. 24: (Yamhill Valley News-Register) ODOT chooses by-pass route
http://www.newsregister.com/article/45576-odot+chooses+bypass+route
The Oregon Department of Transportation has officially adopted the route it had identified earlier as its preferred alternative for the four-lane, 11-mile Newberg-Dundee Bypass...

Sept. 23: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) The long view on land-use planning
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/09/the_long_view_on_land-use_plan.html
Dismissing land-use appeals as a "colossal waste of resources," as Doug Montgomery, McMinnville's planning director, recently did in a story in The Oregonian, damns the public's interest...

Sept. 23: (Eugene Register-Guard) Marine mediations: Opinions on closing four coastal areas to fishing are mixed
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/25276349-35/reserves-marine-state-cape-fishing.csp
NEWPORT - Paul Merz already has made his case against marine reserves in Oregon - at meeting after meeting, to the media, to the government, to anyone who'll listen...

Sept. 22: (Klamath Falls Herald and News) Commissioners oppose sage grouse plan
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_2c37fa98-c611-11df-86a6-001cc4c002e0.html
The Klamath County Board of Commissioners officially opposed a state strategy to protect the greater sage grouse by closing large tracts of land to development in eastern Oregon...

Sept. 22: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Wilsonville gives cold shoulder to Cabela's
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/22/wilsonville-gives-cold-shoulder-to-cabelas/
In a time when municipalities are handing out fee breaks and property-tax waivers like candy on Halloween, one city is turning away a big-box retailer while following a plan adopted before the recession...

Sept. 22: (Bend Bulletin) Bend must shrink growth plan
http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100922/NEWS01/9220355/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01
City of Bend officials should soon know what they need to do to get state approval for expanding the city's urban growth boundary...

Sept. 21: (Coos Bay World) Coquille looks at raising development fee
http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_77f4ce57-f35c-503f-90fb-b3a34f9a275f.html
Black ink could appear on the budget and blue uniforms on the streets if the Coquille City Council acts on suggestions it received Monday night...

Sept. 21: (Daily Journal of Commerce) South Waterfront still lacking in services
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/21/south-waterfront-still-lacking-in-services/
Portland's South Waterfront neighborhood is continuing to grow. With the delivery of both The Matisse and The Mirabella, the former industrial site along the Willamette River now has eight residential high-rises totaling nearly 1,800 units...

Sept. 8: (Guest Commentary, Daily Journal of Commerce) 5 potential problems with Portland's urban growth boundary expansion
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/08/5-potential-problems-with-portlands-urban-growth-boundary-expansion/
We may be forgiven for not noticing a report issued in the dog days of August from Metro Chief Operating Officer Michael Jordan recommending the addition of 2,658 acres to the Portland metropolitan urban growth boundary...


Cliff Voliva | Communications Officer
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