From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Jun 7 16:00:41 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:00:41 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B591701E530A8CE@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 6: Council receives options to suspend VRD approvals - The News Guard ... ... notice to the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and ... to the Land Use Board of Appeals and, from there, to the Oregon Court of ... Geo-engineering: massive potential, or massively implausible? (Business Green) In one study in Oregon, the carbon storage of an area of land was doubled through changed land use policies. These can include soil-erosion management, improved land-tilling techniques, crop rotation and better grazing land management. ... Metro to vote on Columbia River Crossing (Portland Business Journal) The bridge spans the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon. Metro will also vote on a land-use order related to bridge construction later this summer. In the meantime, the group Coalition for a Livable Future on Friday issued a list of nine ... In Person: Manure entrepreneur Kevin Maas turns dairy waste into green energy (Seattle Times) The back end of a cow provides the front end of Farm Power, the green-energy business that Kevin Maas is slowly expanding in Western Washington and Oregon. By Rami Grunbaum Kevin Maas is president of Mount Vernon's Farm Power, which builds biomass ... June 5: COLUMBIA RIVER CROSSING: POLLUTION OR SALVATION IN NORTH AND NORTHEAST PORTLAND? -- GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/06/columbia_river_crossing_pollut.html The zone near I-5 in North and Northeast Portland is the hottest of hot spots for environmental health problems. The adjacent neighborhoods are among Portland's most highly polluted as well as its most ethnically and economically diverse. June 3: The Scene: 100000 Views of Oregon | Willamette University The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD), .... In Oregon, one popular assumption related to land use says that the sandy beach ... Metro recruiting applicants to be its next chief operating officer (OregonLive.com) By Eric Mortenson, The Oregonian Let's say you're the chief operating officer of Metro, the regional government that coordinates land-use and transportation planning for three counties and 25 cities in the Portland area. What are your mad skills? ... Old Orenco golf land hooks back toward park (OregonLive.com) But the city council, the city's Planning and Zoning hearings board - and eventually the state's Land Use Board of Appeals - disagreed, and the $15.5 million sale went forward in September 2007. The only conservation condition was that a 5-acre ... SOU sets sights on new dorm (Mail Tribune) By Hannah Guzik ASHLAND - Southern Oregon University has asked five developers to come up with proposals for a new 700-bed dormitory and dining hall that would be built off Ashland Street next to the Greensprings residence hall. ... REGARDS TO RURAL 2011 Do land use regulations limit suitable sites available for agriculture and ... Development Specialist for the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and ... ENTERPRISE ZONES BILL ON GOVERNORS DESK (KBND) http://www.kbnd.com/page.php?page_id=60247&article_id=8259 Freshman lawmaker Jason Conger of Bend is thrilled that a bill that extends Enterprise Zones in Oregon passed in the House and Senate and is now on it's way to the Governor's desk. In next transit corridor, access to station areas will be a priority (Daily Journal of Commerce) As preliminary planning begins for the region's next high-capacity transit corridor, from Portland to Sherwood, a new approach is being employed. "Traditionally, transit planners start, go out and draw a line," said Tigard senior transportation planner Judith Gray. "This is the first time that high-capacity transit will be planned with land use first." The Southwest corridor was ... June 2: Pipeline law untangles red tape (Coos Bay World) The controversial use of eminent domain to force land sales is a related but separate issue. HB 2700 doesn't deal with condemnation rules. It merely expedites the process of obtaining state permits -- a key goal for improving Oregon's reputation among ... June 1: OREGON SENATE PASSES LEGISLATION THOUGH CRITICS CLAIM IT WOULD SPEED LNG PROJECTS (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/05/oregon_senate_passes_legislati.html A bill designed to streamline sewer, roads and other projects cleared its final legislative hurdle Tuesday, even though opponents claimed it would also speed the development of liquefied natural gas projects. Looking at Pringle Creek, students see a dream stream (Statesman Journal) "Here is an opportunity to tell a moral tale about land use and abuse," Costic said. "The site remediation can make visible some of the area's industrial history. ... This site can again play a productive role in the community. ... County Commission board selects Eagle Creek mediator as new commissioner (Sandy Post) Damon has worked on a myriad of issues all over Oregon, Washington and Alaska - issues that also are typical to Clackamas County. "I have worked on land-use and management, water, urbanization, transportation, infrastructure and siting of controversial ... 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