From lisa.howard at state.or.us Tue Dec 6 14:29:46 2011 From: lisa.howard at state.or.us (Howard, Lisa) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:29:46 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News Message-ID: <0BAEA486E031B943A99D9F4E0FC1F734056B30@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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December 5: State returns mine plan to county (The Register-Guard) The state Land Use Board of Appeals said the 40 landowners and residents with Families for a Quarry-Free Neighborhood deserve a chance to join a hearing on the four-year-old proposal to mine land off Quaglia Road. Mining applicants Donald Overholser ... A conversation with Zipcar's CEO Scott Griffith (GigaOm) Many of them are still thinking about housing, land use, highways, bridges, and taxing gasoline like it's 1971 not 2011. It's time to build a bigger tent - we need to spin up a discussion on mobility policy, moving way beyond the silo of "highway" ... OREGON, MONTANA, UTAH AND COLORADO PARTNER TO SHARE GIS DATA IN THE CLOUD (Government Technology) http://www.govtech.com/technology/Oregon-Montana-Utah-and-Colorado-Partner-to-Share-GIS-Data-in-the-Cloud.html?elq=95ddcdbdbb01447f98f3ebe6e86cb5cd Oregon stores a vast amount of geospatial data, which will grow exponentially as the state finds new ways to use location-based information. Oregon CIO Dugan Petty hopes to cut the cost of housing GIS data by joining with three other states in a joint cloud-based storage initiative. NEW STATE FORESTER SETTLES INTO ROLE (Medford Mail Tribune) http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111205/NEWS/112050311/-1/NEWSMAP -Longtime forestry worker and author quite fond of history- Doug Decker isn't ready to write the next chapter in the book on the Oregon Department of Forestry just yet. December 4: Apple may build West Coast data center near newly opened Facebook server farm (Digitaltrends.com) Apple is reportedly weighing an option to purchase 160 acres of land in Oregon, located right near Facebook's recently established server farm, for use as a data center. Apple's newly launched iCloud service doesn't actually live in the clouds; ... December 2: Developers, city lose appeal about Keizer Station site (Statesman Journal) The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday handed a defeat to developers and the city of Keizer, affirming an earlier decision for an undeveloped portion of Keizer Station. The court let stand an opinion and order issued by the Oregon Land Use Board of ... Sewer line for Beaverton's 45 Central raises stink in Cedar Hills neighborhood (OregonLive.com) No land-use rules ban the city from putting a sewer line through an unincorporated area, Roberts added. City officials said a project on Murray Boulevard would have been more expensive and taken longer to complete. City documents show that developers ... December 1: Court upholds LUBA's Area C decision; city must reconsider development (Keizertimes) By JASON COX The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the state land use board's ruling that the city must reconsider its decision allowing the next phase of Keizer Station. The decision from the Land Use Board of Appeals was affirmed without opinion on ... The Impact of Grazing? Don't Ask (New York Times) Grazing could be called the third rail of western land-use politics. The Interior Department has granted more than 20000 grazing allotments on more than 150 million acres of western lands. Bruce Babbitt, a former Interior secretary, went through a ... John Charles Has a Message for Oregon (KBND) He has some ideas for turning around the State's economy: "One certainly has to be reforming state land use regulations to deal with the Urban Land cartels that we've created under the system through Urban Growth Boundaries and through massive rural ... Riverbend eyes bigger berm to add capacity (McMinnville News Register) That would give Houston-based Waste Management, which has been in a land-use battle over expansion plans since 2006, some new breathing room it said it badly needs. "What we know is that we need an interim plan while we go through that long term, ... A world apart, but still the same (West Linn Tidings) Despite opposition from neighbors and a staff recommendation of denial, a Clackamas County land use hearings officer approved a new compost and land mine site in Stafford. S&H Logging - a landscaping supply and recycling company that lies between Lake ... OREGON OFFICIALS SAY AMBITIOUS PLANS TO STRAIGHTEN U.S. 20 FROM PHILOMATH TO EDDYVILLE HAVE FAILED (Portland Oregonian) http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/11/oregon_drops_its_ambitious_wor.html Landslide mitigation efforts on the problem-plagued U.S. 20 realignment have failed. That's the word from the Oregon Department of Transportation, which posted the news on the project website today. JACKSON COUNTY LOOKS TO FLEX ITS MUSCLE AGAINST FEDS (Medford Mail Tribune) http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111201/NEWS/112010314/-1/NEWSMAP Before Uncle Sam makes a land-use decision in Washington, D.C., affecting Jackson County residents, the county Board of Commissioners will be consulted. State planning process too slow for one wave energy firm (Daily Journal of Commerce) Oregon has drawn a great deal of interest from burgeoning wave energy companies, but for at least one, the development of sea-ready technology outpaced the state's planning process. Aquamarine Power, a Scottish wave energy company, closed its one-person Newport office last month, citing the intensive, ongoing planning process that Oregon undertook in 2008. But that process ... November 30: COCC Road on Hold (KBND) The problem is, some Awbrey Butte homeowners in that area complained and filed an appeal to the State Land Use Board of Appeals. They have pollution and noise concerns. The City is backing off the road plans for now, but resident John Harper says the ... OSU study questions biofuels viability (Sustainable Business Oregon) The study looked at fertilizer use, land use and carbon release due to farming in addition to transportation emissions. The report concluded US-produced biofuels would cost between 20 and 31 times more than energy efficiency improvements that would ... 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: