From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Jan 11 11:56:44 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:56:44 -0800 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B5917017CFC42EB@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 ____________________________________________________________ Jan 9: OREGON SHOULD MAKE ITSELF RESILIENT FOR A BIG QUAKE -- GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/01/oregon_should_make_itself_resi.html One year ago this Wednesday, a powerful earthquake devastated Haiti, collapsing homes, schools and businesses and killing at least 230,000 people. NOMINATIONS DUE FOR CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT COMMITTEE (Salem Statesman Journal) http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110109/STATE/101090365/1001/ARCHIVE The Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development is accepting nominations for the 2010 STAR Award for Citizen Involvement. The deadline for nominations is March 1. STATE: EPA APPROVES HISTORIC SALMON RESTORATION PLAN FOR KLAMATH RIVER (Lake County News) http://lakeconews.com/content/view/17736/919/ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Californias water quality improvement plan for restoring salmon fisheries and water quality in the Klamath River. Lebanon connect (Corvallis Gazette Times) Federal Land and Water Conservation funds will aid the North Shore project. A recreation trails grant through Oregon Parks and Recreation will help fund the ... Jan 8: 'Growth' may not always mean 'prosperity' (Charlotte Observer) The genesis for this musing was a report I saw this week from an Oregon consulting company, Fodor & Associates. It looks at growth rates and prosperity in ... Rancher could have land condemned, lose water for irrigation Public comment ... (Hermiston Herald) At issue is the ability of the Wadekamper ranch to use all of the wastewater the city will produce in the future. Bogus claims the LGW ranch will only be ... Jan 7: BALLOT 76 SESSION ADDRESSES POSSIBLE FUNDING OUTLOOK FOR CONSERVATION PROJECTS (Argus Observer) http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2011/01/07/news/doc4d275dfc5f434370479300.txt Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 76 in Novembers General Election, but a number of groups representing different interests are waiting to see what the law will look like after the Oregon Legislature passes enacting legislation and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board staff write new rules. Intern has unique job working for both Tualatin and Wilsonville to help chart ... (OregonLive.com) Regional government Metro brought the land into its urban growth boundary in 2004 with an eye to possible residential and industrial use. ... Green action teams share their results (Corvallis Gazette Times) The Land Use Action team has taken on a huge database project to inventory the mixed uses of the city, block-by-block. The surveys have been completed and ... Jan 6: Landslides causing further delays to star-crossed U.S. 20 improvement project (OregonLive.com) Ancient landslides that cost the Oregon Department of Transportation millions of dollars in overruns and added years to the task of straightening U.S. 20 have once again brought the project to a halt. Yamhill County takes land use to a whole new (lower) level (BlueOregon) In my years of land-use wonkery, I've often ruminated over the horrible way that County Commissions in Oregon generally make decisions about land use. ... Stafford has improper reserve designation (West Linn Tidings) The map and proposed land use designations submitted by the Clackamas County Business Alliance, the developer's PAC, shows this area bordered by West Linn, ... Feds Approve California's Plan For Klamath River (OPB News) Together, the California and Oregon plans are meant to guide future decisions over water and land-use in the Klamath region. The California plan just ... Federal grant will help Metro explore ways to improve travel between Portland ... (OregonLive.com) Future land-use will also factor into plans, she said. "This is the first time where it's going to be done together," Kane said. "That's why it's such a big ... Routing the future (Vancouver Voice) "We don't have the type of land use you see on the Oregon side [of the Columbia River]," said Scott Patterson, C-TRAN Director of Development and Public ... Not 'if', but 'when' (Curry County Reporter) Kendall says the average span of major earthquakes off the Oregon Coast is about once every 250 years - so we are overdue. Of course, that is just an ... Top Ten Green Building Trends for 2011 Selected by Earth Advantage Institute (Benzinga) Through such programs as Clean Energy Works Oregon, and Solar City's solar lease-to-own business model, no up-front payment is required to take advantage of ... Jan 5: Court of Appeals rules against landfill expansion (Newberg Graphic) After the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) concluded in July that the county had gone against state land use law in authorizing the landfill ... Court rules against landfill expansion (Capital Press) To approve the expansion, Yamhill County tried to exempt the plan from one of Oregon's state land use planning goals -- the preservation of farmland. ... Pacific West Biomass Profile (Biomass Power and Thermal) On the opposite end of the spectrum sits Oregon, with its 14 operational wood-fired CHP plants collectively making use of between 3 million and 4 million ... Concerns arise as group eyes Aldrich area (Blue Mountain Eagle) They seek the land - now under the control of Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife - to be united by one ... REPORT CLEARS BRENT FOSTER'S WORK ON THE LNG BRADWOOD LANDING IN OREGON (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/01/report_clears_brent_fosters_wo.html A former judge's review of Brent Foster's work at Oregon's Department of Justice found no evidence that Foster gave improper legal advice on liquid natural gas plants in Oregon as LNG supporters had charged. Lisa Howard | Assistant to the Director 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. 271 | Cell: (503) 383-8911 | Fax: (503) 378-5518 lisa.howard at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/LCD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: