From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Nov 8 15:54:18 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 23:54:18 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <0BAEA486E031B943A99D9F4E0FC1F734043EB2@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. Past Land Use News weekly e-mails may be found here: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/landuse-news Anyone may subscribe, unsubscribe or change their subscription to the free service by visiting this site: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/landuse-news ____________________________________________________________ November 8: Land use regulation: Don't call defenders of property rights zealots (OregonLive.com) By Guest Columnist By James L. Huffman The reality is that rural Oregon is economically depressed, and Miner's predecessors at 1000 Friends have helped to make it so. Nearly four decades of insisting on a one-size-fits-all approach to land use ... Obama Signs Ski Area Summer Use Bill Into Law (First Tracks) It amends the National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to permit activities beyond the alpine and Nordic skiing already allowed in ski areas on public lands. Such uses would include zip lines, mountain coasters and alpine slides as well as mountain ... Cherry Creek appeal is ill-advised and should be withdrawn (Mail Tribune) Instead of selecting an alternative site that is much better suited to the target occupants, it appeals the decision to the state Land Use Board of Appeals. This action is certainly lawful, but it fails to represent the Jackson County citizens who live ... Opponents testify against hydroelectric facility (Herald and News) Under proposals by the Portland-based Symbiotics, the lines would transmit energy from a 1380-megawatt Swan Lake pumped storage hydroelectric facility to a proposed new power substation on the California side of the Oregon-California state line. ... Oregon - Regional Activities - NOAA Coastal and Marine Spatial ... (NOAA) Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) Paul. ... and procedures that state agencies will use to approve new energy development. ... MP GORGE UPDATE 111111 (Oregon Public Broadcasting) http://news.opb.org/article/mp_gorge_update_111111/ A plan for managing the Columbia River Gorge unlawfully excludes land, air, plants and plant habitat from the list of protected natural resources in the area, an environmental group says. November 5: For 1000 Friends of Oregon, land-use legacy is a flame that needs tending (OregonLive.com) Portland attorney Henry Richmond, who was 1000 Friends' first director in 1974, says Oregon's land-use system is "fundamentally a political enterprise" -- not technical or even legal -- and can be changed by the Legislature or ballot box. ... Developer plans to pay city (Statesman Journal) The city and three developers, including Sides, are taking a Land Use Board of Appeals decision on the Area C Master Plan to the Oregon Court of Appeals. Area C is an undeveloped portion of Keizer Station southwest of the intersection of the railroad ... Guest opinion: It's high time for Yamhill County to protect all ... (Newberg Graphic) This ruling by Oregon's highest court means that Measure 49 will be fairly and fully enforced. Measure 37 was fundamentally flawed and past county approvals ... ECONOMY NEEDS MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS -- GUEST OPINION (Salem Statesman Journal) http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20111106/OPINION/111060338/-1/7daysarchives/Economy-needs-multimodal-transportation-options With our region's unemployment rate hovering at 9.6 percent, job creation is on everyone's mind. Job creation rests on several foundations one is transportation. Manufacturers need to move goods to market and employers need transportation to get their workforce to work. November 4: GOV. JOHN KITZHABER SAYS FOREST POLICIES MUST BALANCE HEALTH OF HABITAT AND RURAL COMMUNITIES (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/11/gov_john_kitzhaber_forest_poli.html Gov. John Kitzhaber called on the state Board of Forestry Thursday to step back from the "politically driven seesaw management" of the state's timberland and adopt a balanced approach that can be extended to the much larger federal forests as well. The Market Square, the town and the planet: Ecocities (Stratford Gazette) Copenhagen has a very large pedestrian precinct; Curitiba in Brazil has achieved population density and efficient public transit, as well as improved recycling to reduce landfill; Portland, Oregon, is very active in increasing streetcar and bicycle use ... Forest Grove to appeal $6.5M 'abuse of power' decision (Daily Journal of Commerce) The city of Forest Grove is appealing a jury's decision in September that found the city and two of its employees liable for "abuse of power," and awarded David Hill Development $6.5 million in damages. Good luck getting a building permit (Daily Journal of Commerce) Editor's note: This is the second part of a three-part series. The first part appeared in the Oct. 31 edition of the Daily Journal of Commerce. The final part will appear in the Nov. 21 edition. Previously, I told the story of Dan Ludwig, a cabinetmaker who came to America in 1955, built himself a workshop [...] November 2: EDITORIAL: Wolves hold no true relevance in land use debate (Wallowa County Chieftain) They noted that the Hunters had already allowed members of Oregon Wild, an actively pro-wolf group, to camp on their property. Cattle growers' testimony pointed out, accurately, that agriculture's contribution to the county's economy continues to dwarf ... COMPOSTING FOOD WASTE IS GREEN; NOT WASTING FOOD IS GREENER (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/11/composting_food_waste_is_green.html Composting food waste is fine, but not wasting the food in the first place has at least 30 times the benefit when it comes to cutting global warming emissions, a new study commissioned by Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality concludes. LAHOOD: 'MONEY WILL BE THERE' FOR I-5 BRIDGE (Oregon Public Broadcasting) http://news.opb.org/article/us-transportation-secretary-money-will-be-there-i-5-bridge/ U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says President Barack Obama's jobs plan includes money for a new Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River. REPORT SHOWS CARBON FOOTPRINT BEYOND OREGON'S BORDERS (Oregon Public Broadcasting) http://news.opb.org/article/report-shows-carbon-footprint-beyond-oregons-borders/ Oregon has just released figures that track the state's carbon footprint based on what we buy. It's believed to be the first such analysis by any state in the country. 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: