From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Jul 19 15:29:11 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:29:11 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B591701E530AB12@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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Baker City normally gets about a half-inch of rain in July. ... >From hospital to housing (Corvallis Gazette Times) Jasperson said Good Samaritan officials have conferred with neighborhood association leaders about the redevelopment plan and expect to hold additional public meetings as the project works its way through the land use approval process. July 18: Pair of Wyden, Merkley Land Management Bills Pass Energy and Natural Resources ... (The State Column) With tourism in eastern Oregon being a promising way to boost the economy of local communities, legislation to transfer federal land to the cities of La Pine and Wallowa passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today. ... EcoFlats: One More Unsustainable Green Icon for Portland (Oregon Catalyst) In addition to the incentives from PDC, the developer also applied for Oregon's business energy tax credit. The program covers up to 50% of costs towards the purchase of certain technologies. These include high-efficiency combined heat and power ... July 17: Court of Appeals sends back Mac urban growth plan (McMinnville News-Register) By Nicole Montesano The state Land Conservation and Development Commission ... and probably staff from the Department of Land Conservation and Development, ... July 16: Oregon LNG terminal plans reverse from importing to exporting gas (OregonLive.com) Local land use is the biggest issue." An export project comes with all the same environmental impacts on rivers, forests and farmland. And LNG opponents have proved a potent force in Oregon, mounting effective legal challenges to local land-use ... Sammyville, the 'outlaw town,' getting a new sheriff as namesake hangs up his ... (OregonLive.com) Land use: Sammyville is that rarity in Oregon, a remote community where all the property and dwellings are owned by a single landlord, says Hanley Jenkins, the Union County planner in La Grande. It's in a timber-grazing zone, but remains as it is under ... Better with Age (Mail Tribune) "If our farm-based businesses are not financially successful, the pressure to develop Oregon's farm land is increased. When we went to Salem to talk with our legislators, the response was very positive, officials were listening to what we needed. ... Aug. 11 vote would be Metro's final sign-off on Columbia River ... (Metro newsfeed) Oregon land use law can be Byzantine on its good days. ... Staff from Metro and the Department of Land Conservation and Development drafted 10 standards ... Capital Press agriculture news SALEM -- A proposal that could have eased land-use restrictions on marginal farm and forest land in three Southern Oregon counties was among the bills that ... to the Department of Land Conservation and Development and directed it to ... July 15: A DEAL TO BRING A SOLEXANT CORP. PLANT TO GRESHAM FALLS APART (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2011/07/greshams_solexant_deal_falls_a.html A state-financed deal to bring thin-film solar manufacturing to Gresham has fallen apart, city and state officials said Thursday. INTERIOR SECRETARY KEN SALAZAR APPROVES CENTRAL OREGON'S FIRST WIND ENERGY FARM (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/07/central_oregons_first_wind_ene.html Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave the go ahead today to what could be Central Oregon's first wind energy project. Salazar announced approval of West Butte Wind Power's project, about 25 miles east of Bend. STUDY FINDS 93 PERCENT GROWTH IN STATE'S WINE INDUSTRY (Salem Statesman Journal) http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110715/BUSINESS/107150325/Study-finds-93-percent-growth-state-s-wine-industry A study for the Oregon wine industry finds its economic impact has nearly doubled since 2005 and stands at $2.7 billion. The study released Thursday was done for the Oregon Wine Board by Full Glass Research of Berkeley, Calif. GUEST VIEWPOINT: OREGON NEEDS TO SHORE UP THE FOUNDATION OF ITS ECONOMY -- OPINION (Eugene Register-Guard) http://www.registerguard.com/web/opinion/26536884-47/oregon-economy-state-energy-local.html.csp Gov. John Kitzhabers Strategy for Oregons Prosperity is a bottom-up approach that seeks to retain capital within the state by maximizing local supply chains for Oregon companies. By increasing the density of these networks, Oregon firms can moderate the effects of larger business cycles while circulating capital more effectively within the state. County delays hearing on pipeline, oysters (Coos Bay World) In March, the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals directed the Coos County commissioners to give more consideration to the oyster question, after Citizens Against LNG and other pipeline opponents appealed the commissioners' approval of a conditional land ... West Linn-Wilsonville to hold public hearing on proposed language immersion ... (OregonLive.com) Peter Spir, associate planner with the city of West Linn, said the process would take at least six months, and a city staff report co-authored by Spir noted most land-use applications take eight to 10 months. Still, Brenna Burke, a parent associated ... In Our View: Keep Gorge Grand (The Columbian) ... of a grand experiment in land-use laws. The act drew a boundary around an 83-mile-long swath of the Gorge encompassing 292630 acres, reaching from Washougal to Wishram on the Washington side and from Troutdale to the Deschutes River in Oregon. ... Land transfer bills benefit cities (East Oregonian) The bills would transfer federal land to the cities of La Pine and Wallowa. The overall goal of these bills is to boost tourism in Eastern Oregon. In La Pine, three pieces of land will be transferred under the La Pine Land Conveyance Act. Deschutes ... Efforts at airport will target business (Statesman Journal) The Oregon Department of Aviation estimates the benefit to the region is greater and puts it at near $800 million," Wales said. "We want to attract more of these types of businesses, but many of them need a longer runway. So we are pursuing one, ... Proposed Damascus measure would require vote on comprehensive plan ... (OregonLive.com) Damascus resident Dan Phegley is working on a measure that would require a vote from residents before the city council approves land use ordinances including the city's comprehensive plan. ... Earlier this year, he successfully petitioned to have voters decide on whether they supported the council's December decision to forward the comprehensive plan to the state Department of Land Conservation and Development. "The initiative is a defense ... July 14: ODFW Releases Sage-Grouse Maps (myCentralOregon.com) These maps will provide guidance to land use planners, land managers and the public as to the areas of greatest biological importance for persistence of sage-grouse populations in the state. ODFW biologists in cooperation with other agencies, ... Another golf course for Bandon? (Coos Bay World) Cameron LaFollette, land-use director of the Oregon Coast Alliance, told alliance supporters in an email last week that the state's new land acquisition and exchange policy requires any swap proposed by others must show an overwhelming public benefit. ... Kitzhaber Ag interview (Oregon Natural Resources Report) Oregon's farmers and ranchers are stewards of the land and nothing is more closely associated with Oregon than its ethic of environmental stewardship. And because of this, we have a competitive advantage associated with our reputation for high quality, ... Appeals court sets UGB expansion back (McMinnville News-Register) ... city needed from the Department of Land Conservation and Development. Friends of Yamhill County, 1000 Friends of Oregon and land use activist Ilsa Perse ... July 13: CLIMATE SCIENTISTS EVALUATE IMPACT OF EL NINO MODOKI ON THE PACIFIC COAST (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/07/climate_scientists_evaluate_im.html Increased erosion of the Pacific coast during the winter before last hints at a future of greater shoreline destruction from more tumultuous storms and extreme waves, scientists say. The Pentagon has some nerve (OregonLive.com) That would break faith with the people of eastern Oregon. Leaders of the two counties, two Columbia River ports, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla and others have spent 20 years producing a plan to use the depot land for economic development, ... Editorial: Job ideas died in the Senate (Albany Democrat Herald) The Senate minority also proposed that local communities be able to suspend the red tape required by state land use laws in siting new industries that create family-wage jobs. With Oregon's economy down so low, drastic measures are called for. ... GUEST VIEWPOINT: Yesterday's housing mix won't prepare Eugene for future (The Register-Guard) But does the raw land supply have anything to do with the housing crisis? Nationwide, some of the most troubled areas have the fewest land use controls. Over the next 20 years, a ratio of 60 percent detached single-family would require planning for ... 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