From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Jul 12 16:00:10 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:00:10 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B591701E530AAA4@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 12: Clackamas County residents try to stop Portland-Milwaukie light rail (Daily Journal of Commerce) Clackamas County is facing opposition to its plan to create an urban renewal area that would help fund its $25 million contribution to the Portland-Milwaukie Light-Rail project. Oregon City officials take a fresh look at urban renewal and the town's future (OregonLive.com) The five member commission will consider a "visioning process." The effort would allow residents to weigh in on a blueprint for the city's future and could focus on a range of issues such as education, land-use, public safety or environmental concerns. Marine reserve efforts to continue despite legislative support (Cannon Beach Gazette) Cowan said the marine reserves bill itself was not controversial among legislators but got paired with a hot-button land-use bill, with the result that neither bill moved forward. "It was a very frustrating end to the session," she said. ... July 11: University of Oregon kicks off master planning process (Daily Journal of Commerce) In addition to starting work on the Oregon Research Institute building, University of Oregon staffers will begin preparations to update the Riverfront Research Park master plan all together. July 10: A missed opportunity for Southern Oregon (Mail Tribune) The big problem with our "one-size-fits-all" system is that statewide land-use regulations never can be fairly and accurately applied to Oregon's diverse communities and topography. After all, Southern Oregon's land-use needs are different from Central ... Salem works on jobs (The Register-Guard) Both Egan of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and Ed McMahon of the Home Builders Association of Lane County said Oregon land use laws and laborious permitting processes continue to be major stumbling blocks for business expansion in Lane County. ... Walmart near start of store in south Medford (Mail Tribune) In December, the Oregon Supreme Court unanimously overturned an earlier decision by the state Land Use Board of Appeals that required the city to complete a comprehensive traffic study. The city maintained the traffic issue had previously been ... July 9: COLUMBIA RIVER CROSSING HAS SPENT $130 MILLION, WITHOUT LIFTING A SHOVEL (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/07/columbia_river_crossing_has_sp.html In the tangled recent history of the Columbia River Crossing, Seigfreid Hopf played a telling bit part. The German engineer served on a blue-ribbon panel to review the design of the bridge at the heart of the big freeway expansion project. HERMISTON-AREA PLAN FOR UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT SUDDENLY IN PERIL (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/07/hermiston_plan_for_umatilla_chemical_depot_suddenly_in_peril.html After 70 years stockpiling the nation's most nightmarish rockets, bombs and war chemicals, the Umatilla Chemical Depot's future hangs in the balance because it may miss a deadline by a mere month and a half to wrap up its grim mission. 2011 LEGISLATURE: A MIXED RESULT IN SALEM FOR THE ENVIRONMENT -- GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/07/2011_legislature_a_mixed_resul.html Gov. John Kitzhaber recently signed legislation that will put Oregonians to work on energy efficiency upgrades for schools, saving districts money, creating jobs and ensuring safer, healthier classrooms for our children. ORIS RESEARCH PARK SITE GETS OK (Eugene Register-Guard) http://www.registerguard.com/web/newslocalnews/26522067-41/site-building-research-park-river.html.csp -The state approves moving the building back from the river, settling a controversy- The University of Oregons Riverfront Research Park will get its first significant new building in more than two decades after a state board on Friday approved a new site for the project. July 8: Court overturns land-use cases (Daily Astorian) The Oregon Court of Appeals has reversed a local judge's ruling that upheld the rights of two Clatsop County families to develop their land. In a decision issued June 29, the appeals court found an error with the original 2010 decision by Clatsop ... Oregon Court of Appeals reverses local judge's ruling on land ... (Coast River Business Journal) The cases involve two claims under Ballot Measure 49, the state law that allowed ... The board's rulings were appealed by the Oregon Shores Conservation ... Metro mulls growth proposal (OregonLive.com) South Hillsboro, a 1063-acre area south of the Tualatin Valley Highway, has already received preliminary land-use planning from the city of Hillsboro. As a result, it is far less susceptible to expansion problems brought to light in previous planning ... Energy, environmental, recreational and tribal interests voice opinions on ... (OregonLive.com) She said the national ocean policy would recognize, expand and enhance efforts Oregon has already started, such as marine reserves. The Portland visit was the last of 12 across the country, which gathered local opinions on the new policy draft. ... Damascus citizens group raises stakes in fight against comprehensive plan (Daily Journal of Commerce) Ask Damascus, a citizens group, has filed an initiative with the city of Damascus that, if approved, would require voter approval for any city planning document required by the state or Metro. The group believes the city is passing $3 billion in debt to citizens through creation of the state-mandated Damascus Comprehensive Plan without getting their input. 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: