From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Mar 1 15:24:59 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:24:59 -0800 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B591701E157B6CF@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. 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Time a factor in Washington County's efforts to place North Bethany financing ... (OregonLive.com) By Dana Tims, The Oregonian HILLSBORO - Washington County's commissioners are watching the clock to see whether a bill deemed pivotal to kick starting development in the long-planned North Bethany area will emerge from the Oregon House in time for the ... Feb 28: Councilors question need for reduction plans (Statesman-Journal) "What we are setting is targets that would be used to guide the development of plans to explore how land use might change," Cortright said. Cortright explained that other than Portland, cities in Oregon are not required to find ways to meet these ... Kitzhaber names aide for natural resources (Statesman-Journal) Richard Whitman will take a leave of absence as director of the state land-use agency, starting Friday, to advise Gov. John Kitzhaber about natural resources. Whitman has led the state Department of Land Conservation and Development since January 2008, ... Kitzhaber names aide for transport, land use (Statesman-Journal) John Kitzhaber as his adviser for transportation and land-use matters. Peterson, who will resign her elected position March 11, considered a run of her own for governor in 2010. She was elected a commissioner in 2006 and became the elected chairwoman ... Tapping water's future: A federal grant for OSU and other researchers will ... (The Register-Guard) The software marries landscape information - known as GIS or geographic information systems - with local land use decisions and specific water needs from agriculture to firefighting. With all that data, Envision can describe what the future might ... Public input on flood plain development: isn't it your right? (Mail Tribune) Mr. Johnson appealed the use of the Type 1 process to Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals, pleading with the board that the county should have provided him notice and allowed him the opportunity to comment on the application. The board agreed that only ... Feb 27: Denial of Riverbend expansion stands (McMinnville News-Register) That seemed to be a long way off back when Riverbend was originally formulating its expansion plans, but is beginning to loom uncomfortably close, given how protracted Oregon's land-use process can be. Assuming the proponents don't want to give up on ... Feb 26: LAND-USE COMMISSION WILL NAME TEMPORARY CHIEF (Salem Statesman Journal) http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110227/STATE/102270356/-1/7daysarchives/Land-use-commission-will-name-temporary-chief Jerry Lidz, former solicitor general at the Oregon Department of Justice, is Gov. John Kitzhaber's recommended choice as acting director of the state land-use agency. Adviser: Kitzhaber focus on jobs not environment (The Columbian) Richard Whitman said Friday he will be working for passage of Senate Bill 766, which would streamline land use and environmental permits for companies that build on lands already zoned industrial. The land use group 1000 Friends of Oregon was involved ... COURT CLARIFIES RIVERBEND DECISION: NO REMAND (Newberg Graphic) http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2011/February/25/Local.News/court.clarifies.riverbend.decision.no.remand/news.aspx -Yamhill County, Riverbend mull next move- The Oregon Court of Appeals announced Wednesday that it had granted Yamhill County and Riverbend Landfills request for clarification of the courts Dec. 29 decision on the landfill expansion, but the clarification did not come in the form of the remand the county and Riverbend hoped for. PANEL WILL DISCUSS BILLS ALLOWING BIG EVENTS AT WINERIES (Newberg Graphic) http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2011/February/25/Local.News/panel.will.discuss.bills.allowing.big.events.at.wineries/news.aspx Proposals to increase the commercial uses allowed at wineries and elsewhere in farm zones, expected to come before the Legislature this session, will be locally vetted Monday when Friends of Yamhill County holds a panel discussion at Yamhill Grill. Wow. It's one of the most common exclamations you will hear all over Oregon ... (Bristol Evening Post) Central Oregon is also finding its feet as a wine-growing region with more and more land being put to that use due to the long hot summers and the dry winters to be found in the area. The Maragas Winery north of Bend is just one of wineries which is in ... Feb 25: Kitzhaber names (temporary) natural resources adviser (Statesman-Journal) At the land-use agency, he put into effect the changes required by Measure 49, including the processing of permits for scaled-back development on some rural ... Walmart on the way to coast? (Daily Astorian) City Planner Carol Parker, who signed a Land Use Compatability Statement Feb. 9, said she could not confirm if Walmart could be gearing up for a trip to Warrenton. The public comment period for the permit ends at 5 pm Wednesday. ... OREGON, WASHINGTON TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS RECOMMEND PREFERRED DESIGN FOR COLUMBIA RIVER CROSSING (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/02/oregon_washington_transportati.html Meet the new bridge. Same as the old bridge? Not quite. But on Friday, Oregon and Washington transportation officials recommended a deck truss bridge design for the Columbia River Crossing that is expected to look a lot like the open-web box girder concept thrown out three weeks ago. BILL COULD BENEFIT BAKER CITY, OTHERS -- OPINION (Baker City Herald) http://www.bakercityherald.com/Editorials/Bill-could-benefit-Baker-City-others House Bill 2069 probably wont generate many headlines as the Oregon Legislature goes about its business. But the legislation could save residents of Baker City, and small towns across the state, some money in the future. Feb 24: Kitzhaber taps land use chief Richard Whitman to be natural resources advisor (OregonLive.com) By Harry Esteve, The Oregonian Richard Whitman, who has overseen and umpired Oregon's land use battles in recent years, is Gov. John Kitzhaber's new natural resources advisor, the governor announced this morning. Whitman will serve on an interim basis ... ORI Land Appeal (KEZI TV) The group, Connecting Eugene, says they want the city to hold a public hearing on the project to make sure the company's proposed plans are in compliance with the conditional use permit. The group filed a notice of intent to appeal to the Land Use ... Needed: property for new industry (Portland Tribune) Oregon government considers the issue so important that state land use policies require all urban areas to have a 20-year supply of industrial land available for development. The Land Conservation and Development Commission adopted the requirement in ... DOE Seals Deal for $96.8M Geothermal Loan Guarantee (Earth2Tech) The company has since refocused that effort on federal land in Oregon. EGS technology is more difficult than it sounds. The key is to drill a well deep into the earth and inject cold water at a high pressure to fracture hot rocks. CENSUS 2010: EIGHT OREGON COUNTIES SAW DECLINE IN POPULATION (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/02/post_16.html While some counties saw huge population increases -- like Deschutes with its 37 percent -- eight counties actually saw a decline in their number of residents. Feb 23: Metro, Washington County Announce Land-Use Agreement (OPB News) Oregon's Land Conservation and Development Commission last year approved a map of rural and urban reserves covering nearly 300000 acres. But commissioners disagreed with plans to allow future urban development on present-day farmland, ... Families Insist Willow Creek Wind Farm Exceeds Noise Standard (The Lund Report) February 23, 2011 -- Three families in eastern Oregon upset about the noise generated by a wind farm are taking their case to the Land Use Board of Appeals. They claim the noise from the Willow Creek Wind Farm's 48 turbines exceeds the state's standard ... Feb 22: Washington County submits new reserves map [http://djcoregon.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/dmc-story-security/key.gif] Washington County officials have returned from the drawing board with a retooled urban and rural reserves proposal they hope will be approved by the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission. Damascus council holds off on changes to comprehensive plan, discusses prayer at meetings (OregonLive.com) Councilors voted Tuesday to table any future discussions about the recently submitted comprehensive plan until the Land Conservation and Development Commission returns the reviewed plan to the city. 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: