From michael.morrissey at state.or.us Thu Aug 2 12:36:33 2012 From: michael.morrissey at state.or.us (Morrissey, Michael) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:36:33 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News August 2, 2012 Message-ID: <8E4EA4B8E876404292F6F09D24A772F8255FD993@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 A century and more of Oregon farming, with help from land-use laws and ... OregonLive.com Oregon's family farms and ranches stick to the land in a way that makes most other business entities look like rookies. With the addition of 18 operations added to the list this week, the state now has 1144 farms and ranches that have been going concerns for ... GUEST VIEWPOINT: Change to O&C land use rules needs long look The Register-Guard They funded fraudulent claims on federal lands that appeared to meet federal settlement requirements and accumulated large tracts of land. In 1900 nine of 10 land claims in Oregon were fraudulent. Much of the existing private timber land in Oregon's Coast ... Man sentenced to jail for collecting rainwater in Oregon RT An Oregon man is expected to spend a month in jail after being convicted on nine misdemeanor charges related to his illegal use of...water? Gary Harrington was sentenced after being found guilty of illegally collecting water on his own rural property. Energy plan puts Oregon first Statesman Journal This should include building on the success of Oregon's land-use system, which has helped make our metro areas compact and transportation-efficient, by ensuring that the existing transportation infrastructure is well-used and modernized where needed ... Long Draw fire devastates land, cattle and way of life for Eastern Oregon ... OregonLive.com The fire also devastated range land, prime habitats for sage grouse, rabbits and coyote. Few birds even enter the area now. Just a few weeks ago the Yturriondobeitia family used this land near Whitehorse Road to graze their herd. Oregon's biggest wildfire in ... Portland's industrial land shortage: a people problem that must be solved soon Daily Journal of Commerce New local land-use regulations that reduce the supply of developable land inside the urban growth boundary make Portland's chronic shortage of industrial land even greater than it would be otherwise. Third, all local governments in Oregon are required ... In Oregon and elsewhere, farming produces a crop of land-use arguments OregonLive.com Farmers, because they literally lose ground to expanding cities and development, increasingly find themselves drawn into land-use fights. A couple of those are under way: The California Farm Bureau recently joined a lawsuit opposing a Highway 101 bypass ... Winery events permit appealed Capital Press (subscription) The Oregon Department of Agriculture and a citizens group have filed briefs with the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals objecting to a Yamhill County decision allowing a winery to expand its commercial activities. The department and Friends of Yamhill ... Michael Morrissey | Policy Analyst 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. 320 | Fax: (503) 373-5518 michael.morrissey at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/LCD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: