From casaria.r.tuttle at state.or.us Wed Mar 28 13:30:22 2012 From: casaria.r.tuttle at state.or.us (Tuttle, Casaria R.) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:30:22 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for March 27, 2012 Message-ID: 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 West Hayden Island development plan more environmentally conscious Daily Journal of Commerce The plan, which was developed by Australia-based design firm WorleyParsons, calls for building a marine terminal that would use only 300 acres of land - significantly fewer than the city originally thought would be needed. "City Council challenged us ... See all stories on this topic > Apple Seeks Help With 'Next Generation' Data Centers Wired News In February, Prineville city engineer Eric Klann told Wired that according to the land-use application for the property Apple purchased, development was set to begin with eight modular data center units built by the San Jose-based outfit NxGen Modular. See all stories on this topic > [Description: cid:image013.jpg at 01CD0CD4.5C572EF0] Wired News [Description: cid:image014.jpg at 01CD0CD4.5C572EF0] Daily Journal of Commerce Utah Asks U.S. to Give Back More Than 20 Million Acres of Land ... Utah is also preparing lawsuits, for filing as early as next month, to reclaim thousands of sections of road that cross federal lands but that the ...March 24, 2012 - By KIRK JOHNSON Redefinition of Southern Oregon farm-forest land goes to rulemaking Oregon Natural Resources Report In order to rezone land, however, the counties must first convince the state's land use commission that rural lands in southern Oregon are somehow different from other rural parts of the state. This is likely to be an uphill battle, but the counties' ... See all stories on this topic > Port of Coos Bay wants to flip from importing to exporting liquidified natural gas OregonLive.com The company filed paperwork late last month with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to change the project to an export terminal, potentially making Oregon a hub for natural gas producers looking to tap lucrative markets in Asia. See all stories on this topic > Debate continues over Recology's Lents site for compost collection Sustainable Business Oregon Attorney Tom Rask filed the appeal (available for download as PDF here) to Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals on behalf of two Lents neighbors and Cottonwood Capital Property Management LLC. The Salt Lake City company owns the Scott Mountain Apartments ... See all stories on this topic > Columbia River Crossing bridge sinking under its own mistakes Oregon Business News (press release) In February, the Oregon Supreme Court issued a land-use ruling stating that most of the project (a 10-lane freeway bridge with new interchanges) was essentially a bargaining chip METRO offered Clark County, WA, for its approval of a long-term METRO ... See all stories on this topic > Farmer: Landfill fight a matter of time Capital Press (subscription) That rezoning decision is being challenged before the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals by a coalition of residents, Waste Not of Yamhill County, that argue the change violates Oregon's land use goals and the county's policies. See all stories on this topic > Oregon Forest Plan Heads the Way of the Dinosaur Courthouse News Service (CN) - The Bureau of Land Management can dump a forestry-management plan conceived during the administration of President George W. Bush, a federal judge ruled. Timber groups had intervened after US Magistrate Judge Dennis Hubel found that the BLM ... See all stories on this topic > ODOT halts federal funding for Damascus Transportation System Plan OregonLive.com Late last year, the city came up with a new working land-use map based on resident input, paving the way to begin work again on a Transportation System Plan. A meeting of the project's management team was scheduled for this morning, and estimates put ... See all stories on this topic > [Description: cid:image015.jpg at 01CD0CD4.5C572EF0] OregonLive.com Tom McCall's hold on Oregonians four decades later Statesman Journal (blog) A few months later, as McCall was dying of cancer, he threw himself into the campaign against Measure 6, which would have weakened Oregon's statewide land use planning requirements - then being blamed for thwarting economic development. 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