From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Nov 1 15:19:05 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 22:19:05 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <0BAEA486E031B943A99D9F4E0FC1F7340401D6@DLCDSXCH05.dlcd.state.or.us> 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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October 30: OREGON SUPREME COURT SENDS 'VESTED RIGHTS' LAND-USE CASE BACK TO YAMHILL COUNTY (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/10/oregon_supreme_court_sends_ves.html Ruling on one of the final cases lingering from Oregon's dueling property rights measures, the state Supreme Court said Yamhill County made a mistake when it decided a man had the right to finish building a 10-unit subdivision. WHY OREGON CAN LEAD THE GREEN BUSINESS REVOLUTION -- GUEST OPINION (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/10/why_oregon_can_lead_the_green.html On Wednesday, I will be in Portland speaking about the global race towards the green economic revolution at Oregon Environmental Council's Business and Environment Forum. This is somewhat of a homecoming, as my daughter graduated from Oregon State University in 1999, and I served as a research associate at the University of Oregon in the late 1970s. Different Views (Mail Tribune) In Southern Oregon, at least six parcels of land purchased through the conservation grant program have been converted from open space to some other use, ... October 29: County bows to population forecast pressure (McMinnville News-Register) However, those forecasts drew fire from land-use advocacy groups, ... On Oct. 14, the state Department of Land Conservation and Development awarded the ... Landslides in ski expansion area will be studied (Mail Tribune) The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries mapped landslide hazards along Interstate 5 using a new aerial laser technique that can see through vegetation and reveal highly detailed images of land forms. The technique is known as LiDAR, ... October 28: Columbia River Crossing opponents lose first ruling on bridge project (OregonLive.com) By Jeff Manning, The Oregonian View full sizeA second bridge design was unveiled by the governors of Oregon and Washington in spring 2011. Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals made short work of Columbia River Crossing opponents' first legal parry ... Columbia River Crossing Officials Call State Land Use Ruling a Victory (Willamette Week) SOURCE: CRC Officials running the project to build a new Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River say they see this week's ruling by a state land use review board as a victory for the project. The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) turned back ... COLUMBIA RIVER CROSSING PROJECT IS REJECTED BY STATE LAND USE BOARD-- BLOG (Willamette Week) http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-27795-columbia_river_crossing_project_is_rejected_by_sta.html The push to build the massive Columbia River Crossing project hit the wall Thursday when a state land use board said Metro failed to follow the law when it gave its blessing to the freeway bridge. October 27: Decision may force retooling of agency's CRC approval (The Columbian) By Eric Florip An Oregon appeals board this week ruled that the state's Metro Council overstepped its bounds slightly in giving its go-ahead to the Columbia River Crossing through a Land Use Final Order. But the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals ruling ... Interstate 5 Bridge Meets Another Roadblock (OPB News) Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals sided almost entirely with backers of a new Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River, but there was one problem that LUBA did find in its new decision. Opponents -- including the Coalition for a Livable Future and ... Court upholds land use ruling (Capital Press) The lawsuit centers on how the government determines whether a landowner has the "vested right" to develop his property under the state's land use laws. In 2005, Oregon voters passed Measure 37, a ballot initiative that required state and local ... Troutdale gas plant proposal raises questions (Sustainable Business Oregon)... fit from a political, environmental or land use point of view. From a wind perspective, Troutdale sits at the entrance of the Columbia River Gorge. Whatever comes out of the smokestack at Troutdale will blow through the gorge toward eastern Oregon. ... Reshaping the housing market (Sustainable Industries) Sustainable Industries The Urban Land Institute Oregon recently advertised a workshop to the Oregon development community: "In the wake of the financial crisis and the great recession, sweeping structural changes are reshaping the housing market. ... Eco-district planning process being fine-tuned (Daily Journal of Commerce) What is an eco-district? Interest in district-scale projects stems from the belief that coordinating such efforts can increase efficiency in use of water, energy and other resources to significantly reduce overall environmental impacts. Steps are being taken to ... Land use board sides mostly with Metro on CRC decision (Daily Journal of Commerce) The state Land Use Board of Appeals released its decision on Wednesday on several appeals to a Columbia River Crossing land-use approval Metro gave last month. With one exception, the board sided with Metro on its handling of the land use final order. The final order is part of an accelerated land-use approval process that consolidates ... October 26: DEQ OUTLINES WAVE ENERGY PARK PLAN (Eugene Register-Guard) http://www.registerguard.com/web/newslocalnews/27080895-41/energy-ocean-power-state-buoys.html.csp -Ocean Power Technologies eventually plans to have 10 140-foot-tall buoys offshore- Binocular-toting tourists tooling along U.S. Highway 101 might find themselves rubbernecking at an odd sight bobbing in the Pacific Ocean near Gardiner next summer: A 140-foot-tall buoy, the top 30 feet of it sticking out of the water. THE RUNAWAY BRIDGE BUDGET (Willamette Week) http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-18141-the_runaway_bridge_budget.html -State transportation officials stood by as planning costs for the Interstate 5 Columbia River Crossing ballooned.- The freeway project Oregon and Washington want to build across the Columbia River has already cost taxpayers $136 million. Local land trust wins national building award (Clackamas Review) "I became aware of CCLT from a volunteer at a local fair in Oregon City," McDowell said. "As a builder I immediately understood the challenges of land costs related to the ability to provide affordable home ownership opportunities. ... Last of Umatilla Depot's chemical weapons destroyed, now the cleanup begins (OregonLive.com) Still undecided is what's to happen to the depot land when the Army's mission ends. An original reuse blueprint devised at a cost of $1 million over two decades by a special commission had earmarked it for commercial-industrial development, an Oregon ... RPS and EP administrator have something in common (Upper Rogue Independent) Hussell also gave huge credit to Josh LeBombard, county land-use planner, ... The state and DLCD (Dept. Of Land Conservation Development) has been ... 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: