From lisa.howard at state.or.us Wed Aug 3 10:15:41 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:15:41 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B591701E530ABFD@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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August 2: STATE RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF PORTLAND AREA'S LONG-RANGE GROWTH PLAN (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/08/state_recommends_approval_of_p_1.html State analysts recommend approval of the Portland area's unprecedented growth plan, saying Metro and its three county partners have justified urban and rural "reserve" designations that will guide development and preservation until 2060. Rural land spotted for growth (Mail Tribune) ... the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development reviews it. ... The framework for that change in land use is being devised now, said Greene. ... Democrats and Republicans agree on state land-use change need (Oregon Natural Resources Report) As Representative Greenlick notes, the Oregon legislature should not be the place to make ... Bills like HB 3465 would be unheard of in the other 49 states, ... August 1: THE BLOCK-BY-BLOCK FIGHT AGAINST OBESITY (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/08/the_block-by-block_fight_again.html Oregon has a weight problem that public health experts are charting with frustration and alarm. A decade ago, one in six Oregon adults was obese. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, it is one in four. July 31: Forest lands eyed for vineyards (Santa Rosa Press Democrat) ... is development that clutters the hills with housing. "You have to look at conservation in the bigger picture," said Tom Adams, land-use director for ... July 30: GEOLOGICAL CELL TOWER PROPOSED AT CRATER LAKE (Medford Mail Tribune) http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110730/NEWS/107300305 Oregon's only national park may soon have a wireless cell tower that will help scientists keep tabs on what they describe as a potentially active volcano. The U.S. Geological Survey wants to build a 60-foot tall tower to allow the agency to transmit information from sensitive instruments watching over the sleeping geological giant that blew its top some 7,700 years ago. July 29: Rediscovering 'Paradise': Peter Walker On Oregon's Land Use Challenge (Oregon Stories, 1000 Friends of Oregon) In his new book, University of Oregon Geography Professor Peter Walker administers a strong dose of what he calls "tough love" to Oregon's land use planning community. Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon, which Walker wrote with Patrick Hurley, is a frank assessment of the roots, successes, and recent challenges our state's renowned system faces. July 28: Oregon's land-use system broken, critics say (Daily Journal of Commerce) McMinnville Planning Director Doug Montgomery has worked for years to help the city receive final approval for an urban growth boundary expansion. And after multiple appeals and remands, he is finding that the involvement of planners in the process is decreasing while the involvement of lawyers is increasing. The trend, he said, shows that Oregon's land-use ... Land use absurdity plays out in saga of McMinnville's UGB (McMinnville News-Register) The Oregon Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded McMinnville's UGB decision to the Land Conservation and Development Commission. LCDC, the court said, ... Plan to install reservoir tank, pump house in Forest Park neighborhood is ... (OregonLive.com) The Water Bureau has since conducted land surveys to test the soil and other geotechnical traits of the lot, and the land use hearing was the most recent and what officials believe is the last significant hurdle in the process. ... Crowd opposes Curry parks swap (Bandon Western World) By Gail Elber and Steve McCasland No new details of a proposed land swap between Curry County and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department came out during a bimonthly meeting of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission held in Bandon on July 20. ... Opponents pack the room (Curry County Reporter) They are also, as you well know, proposing to take over the Floras Lake State Park through some land exchange with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Their stated desire is to acquire all or part of the State Park property associated with ... Editorial: A closer look at 'Goal 5' (Albany Democrat Herald) It was adopted by the Land Conservation and Development Commission as an outgrowth of the land-use planning laws the legislature adopted in the 1970s. Goal 5 was last amended in August 1996, not by legislature but by a change in administrative rules. ... FEDS LAUNCH NEW PLAN TO CONSERVE SAGE GROUSE HABITAT (Oregon Public Broadcasting) http://news.opb.org/article/feds-launch-new-plan-conserve-sage-grouse-habitat/ The federal government is developing a new strategy to conserve greater sage grouse habitat in the West -- the area includes Washington, Oregon and Idaho July 27: McMinnville asks court to rethink UGB (McMinnville News-Register) The city of McMinnville will file a brief asking the Oregon Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision remanding the city's urban growth boundary expansion plan. . . Land-use officials contest court's urban growth boundary decision (Daily Journal of Commerce) Urban growth boundary expansions usually put land-use activists and city governments at odds in Oregon. OREGON SAYS LATEST HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION CLEANUP PLAN LEAVES TOO MUCH RADIOACTIVE WASTE BEHIND (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/07/oregon_says_latest_hanford_nuc.html The latest version of a $300 million plan to clean up plutonium and other radioactive waste dumped in the center of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has improved but still leaves too much contamination in the ground, the state of Oregon and the Hanford Advisory Board say. Storing Water for a Dry Day Leads to Suits (New York Times)... who founded Ecosystem Economics in Oregon. The economic concept is simple. Farmers, through the water districts that they control, have acquired land entitling them to use water, or have contracted for water supplies flowing to their region. ... July 26: Damascus Community Development Director Anita Yap resigns (OregonLive.com) DAMASCUS -- Community Development Director Anita Yap announced her resignation from the city Monday and will be leaving Aug. 11. 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: