From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Aug 23 14:54:31 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:54:31 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B59170205B11AA6@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 21: Hot new crop on a 24-hour rotation (McMinnville News-Register) By mid-October, his nine acres, and almost 12 nearby, will be hosting the largest ground-mounted solar arrays developed in Oregon to date. The two sites, located west of Amity, will create a combined 2.85 megawatts. That's enough to supply a city of ... Obesity: What you eat and where you live matters (Lansing State Journal) "Ingham County was one of the first in the nation to recognize the link between health and local land use and planning," said Janine Sinno, health analyst with the Ingham County Health Department. The county's plan calls for a 2 percent increase in ... August 20: HOME FOR NOAA'S PACIFIC FLEET DEDICATED IN NEWPORT (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/08/home_for_noaas_pacific_fleet_dedicated_in_newport.html The crowd in Newport was happy enough with the first part of Rear Admiral Jonathan Bailey's remarks. "Welcome to the finest marine facility on the west coast," Bailey, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the crowd of hundreds. The crowd cheered; they whistled and applauded. Bailey paused. FUNDING THE FUTURE: WE NEED A TRANSPORTATION BILL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY -- GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/08/funding_the_future_we_need_a_t.html Transportation infrastructure allows us to live in the community of our choosing, helps get our families to work and school safely, and creates jobs by allowing the goods and services produced here in Oregon to be sold throughout the world. The men and women of Oregon's building trades have helped assemble and maintain this vital piece of our everyday lives for decades. PLAN FOR KEIZER STATION SENT BACK (Salem Statesman Journal) http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110820/NEWS/108200342/-1/7daysarchives/Plan-Keizer-Station-sent-back -Residents' group celebrates its minor victory- A community group's resistance prompted a state board to send an application for an undeveloped area of Keizer Station back before the city of Keizer. SOLOPOWER GETS FEDERAL LOAN GUARANTEE TO EXPAND (San Francisco Chronicle) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/19/BU3T1KPOVA.DTL&type=business SoloPower Inc., which makes thin-film solar cells, won final approval on Friday for a $197 million federal loan guarantee to expand its San Jose headquarters and open two manufacturing facilities in Portland, Ore. On Oregon's south coast, the biggest tidal marsh restoration in state history ... (OregonLive.com) By Katy Muldoon, The Oregonian View full sizeTHOMAS BOYD/The OregonianRoy Lowe, project leader for the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex, hikes through hundreds of acres of diked and ditched farm land transformed into the new Ni-les'tun ... August 19: LCDC approves Washington County reserves map (Daily Journal of Commerce) After almost a year of waiting, Washington County finally has a state-approved growth plan outline for the next 50 years. The Land Conservation and Development Commission, the state's land-use decision board, today unanimously approved a retooled urban and rural reserves map for Washington County. LCDC approved the map after remanding the county's original map back to county officials last October over concerns of designating two specific areas as urban reserves, meaning they could be considered for urban growth boundary expansion over the next 50 years. METRO AREA'S 50-YEAR GROWTH PLAN WINS STATE APPROVAL; DESIGNATES URBAN AND RURAL 'RESERVES' (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/08/metro_areas_50-year_growth_pla.html It wasn't easy, took more than two years and it didn't please everyone, but a plan to shape the next 50 years of development and preservation in the tri-county Portland area was approved Friday by the state Land Conservation and Development Commission. Committees aim to reconnect Aloha (OregonLive.com) Led by the departments of Land Use and Transportation, Housing Services and Community Development, Phase 1 of the planning project, which lasts until spring of 2012, sets the stage for future private and public investment. The cities of Beaverton and ... August 18: Why LCDC should approve Urban and Rural Reserves (OregonLive.com) Some land-use absolutists will likely suggest that approving urban reserves will be the end of land use planning in Oregon as we know it. Frankly, that's the kind of unhelpful hyperbole and sky-is-falling rhetoric that made the debt ceiling debate so ... Portland Region's Growth Plan Near Final Approval (OPB News) The state board that oversees Oregon's land use system is hearing final arguments Thursday. Testimony before the Land Conservation and Development Commission is focused on a few hundred acres of farmland. Washington County commissioner Andy Duyck is ... Long-range growth plan for Portland area faces vote on Friday ... (The Oregonian) Planners with the state Department of Land Conservation and Development reviewed the amendments, considered the objections and recommended the commission approve the package. Many of those who testified Thursday, however, ... NW ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS: PARASITES IN PARADISE; OREGON COHO SALMON; RAISING RABBITS; ORGANICS NEED A FIX, TOO (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/08/nw_environmental_news_parasite.html An Oregon State University study suggests that parasites may have a greater impact on fish health, including threatened species of coho salmon, than previously thought - and farming and logging may be among the causes. August 17: Police training center won't work at Portland International Raceway spot (OregonLive.com) "The uses that the police were proposing didn't fit in with what the zoning code specified, or what the master plan envisioned for the site," said Rebecca Esau, manager of the city's Land Use Division in the city's Bureau of Development Services. ... Port decides to negotiate with developers individually (Coos Bay World) The contract describes the land as having 'a buildup of sand above the level suitable for industrial development." In its request to the Port, Hempstead said his company would use the sand 'on projects as needed." The commissioners approved 10 goals ... COUNTING ON THE LONG HORIZON -- OPINION (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/08/counting_on_the_long_horizon.html It's hard for human beings to see beyond next week, let alone a year or two. And many political decisions do not come with long warranties either, lasting only as long as the politicians involved remain in office. August 16: Central Oregon thinks regionally to attract large lot industrial employers (Daily Journal of Commerce) By bringing a data center to Prineville, Facebook hasn't just helped the city; it's been a boon to almost all of Central Oregon. And therein lies the problem, officials in Cook, Jefferson and Deschutes counties say. Facebook is the only one of its kind in the area and county officials say it's time the large-lot industrial employer ... At Street of Dreams, accessory dwellings let home builders spread out (OregonLive.com) Land-use aside, there's plenty of need for accessory dwelling units, Noffz said. The home built by Brentwood -- which had an offer on it last week -- was designed for empty-nesters, and the extra space is intended for visiting family members. Finding a balance (The Cannon Beach Gazette) "We get a lot more tax out of a hotel or RV park than a vacation rental," he said, "so we don't necessarily discourage them, but our land use doesn't allow them in residential areas for a reason. It generates a lot of traffic, annoys the neighbors. ... Ruby Red Tape (Wall Street Journal) Stretching underground from Opal, Wyoming to gas interconnections near Malin, Oregon, the pipeline is one of those "infrastructure" projects that everyone in Washington claims to favor. Naturally, the regulatory state ensured that the $3.65 billion ... Groups file appeals over cell phone tower (The Register-Guard) ... above ground would meet city noise standards. The seven-member Planning Commission may not be the last stop in the dispute. Planning Commission decisions can be appealed to the state Land Use Board of Appeals and then to the Oregon Court of Appeals. 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: