From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Sep 6 15:46:42 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:46:42 -0700 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <2D371CBB27C746488A630F87111B59170205B11B72@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 ____________________________________________________________ September 6: Oregon leverages New Markets Tax Credits (Sustainable Business Oregon) New Markets money secured through Ecotrust also helped finance ZeaChem's pilot facility for cellulosic ethanol in Boardman, mill upgrades at Ochoco Lumber in John Day and land purchases in Garibaldi and Bandon, where the land is then managed to enhance ... September 4: NEW FLOOD MAPS BEING DEVELOPED FOR THE OREGON COAST (Seaside Signal) http://www.seasidesignal.com/news/local_news/article_155ea512-d72f-11e0-a83a-001cc4c03286.html DOGAMI Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries staff and cartographers are working with Oregon coast communities to update flood mapping. FEMA has contracted with DOGAMI and the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development to update and revise FEMA flood risk maps, for the National Flood Insurance Program. Friends intent on more UGB appeal (McMinnville News-Register) "Land use by litigation," member John Abrams called it. And that resonated with Chairman Daryl Garrettson, who used the term several more times during the course of the evening. Counties in Oregon are required to revise their urban growth boundaries ... Nodes, Sensors, and Internet Access at the Bottom of the Ocean (Singularity Hub) On September 1st the 274-foot Naval research vessel Thomas G. Thompson pulled into Newport, Oregon. Its crew of researchers, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students - and one dean - had just completed a three week expedition called Visions '11 ... September 3: Council votes down low-income project (Mail Tribune) The Housing Authority now can plead its case to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals if it wants to save the project. Jason Elzy, program manager with the Housing Authority, said his agency will seek "legal action" in the matter, but would not comment ... The law hatches a plan (Mail Tribune) "It needs to go into some attainable and viable use, but exactly what that means and how it will work, we really don't know," says Russ Stauff, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Rogue Watershed manager, who is spearheading the agency's ... September 1: Central Catholic High School parking proposal irks neighbors (OregonLive.com) If the council sides with the school, the neighborhood association will have to appeal to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals. The first phase of the expansion calls for a 29000-square-foot, three-story addition and the creation of 15 parking spaces ... Envisioning a better future for Barbur Boulevard (Southwest Community Connection) Other smaller-scale plans - including HCT land-use plans in Tigard and Tualatin and a transportation plan created jointly by Metro and the Oregon Department of Transportation - are being drafted to inform the Southwest Corridor Plan as well, ... Trees' use of nitrogen has climate impact (UPI.com) The productivity of forests growing on nitrogen-rich rock was approximately 50 percent higher than the productivity of forests growing on nitrogen-poor rocks throughout Northern California and into Oregon, the study found. Clackamas County wastewater districts consider purchasing West ... (OregonLive.com) Oregon Department of Environmental Quality officials have told county ... could require permits from the Department of State Lands and possibly also the US ... August 31: Tom Hughes nominates Martha Bennett as Metro's chief operating officer ... (OregonLive.com) It coordinates land-use and transportation planning, operates the Oregon Zoo, runs convention and entertainment venues, oversees garbage hauling and recycling and owns pioneer cemeteries. Jordan, the previous chief operating officer, was hired by Gov. ... Will pocket neighborhoods take root in Manzanita? (North Coast & Cannon Beach Citizen) While the concept isn't new, it is new to Manzanita and Jim Pence, of Manzanita Investment Properties, LLC, along with architect Ross Chapin, hope to make it a reality for the north Oregon coast community. Pence purchased property at the northeast ... Linn OKs Resource Center (Albany Democrat Herald) "However, when the primary use of the land is as a garden shop, providing instruction on horticulture or gardening methods, in conjunction with the sale of gardening items such as soils, amenities, and tools is a normal, auxiliary and allowed use. ... 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