From michael.morrissey at state.or.us Wed Sep 19 16:40:03 2012 From: michael.morrissey at state.or.us (Morrissey, Michael) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:40:03 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News, September 19, 2012 Message-ID: <8E4EA4B8E876404292F6F09D24A772F82564965B@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: Timing off on city land-use plan changes Portland Tribune The I-5 Broadway/Weidler Plan is being presented to the Planning and Sustainability Commission and the council as a recommendation to the Oregon Department of Transportation at this time in large part to meet the state's planning requirements. ... The ... See all stories on this topic > Coquille Tribe buys land for casino in Medford Coos Bay World During his 13-year tenure, Norton said, there have been no new Oregon lands approved for casino use, although the newest of the region's Indian gaming centers - Three Rivers Casino in Florence - had been previously approved. During the application ... See all stories on this topic > Why We're Challenging the Reserves Plan BlueOregon By Jason Miner of Hillsdale, Oregon. Jason is Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Oregon. He has 17 years of experience in land use planning and natural resource stewardship. Jason holds a Bachelors degree in Biology from Amherst College and both a ... See all stories on this topic > Officials promote use of industrial land Statesman Journal Council members are directors from five state agencies: Business Oregon, Environmental Quality, Land Conservation and Development, State Lands and Transportation. More. Economic development officials from Lane and Douglas counties on Monday ... See all stories on this topic > Majestic Forests in Oregon at Risk from Timber Industry and Chemical Spraying PBS NewsHour Of course, none of this is an issue on federal land, where nearly all spraying has been banned in Oregon since the 1980s, when residents successfully challenged the use of herbicides, including Agent Orange. Jim Furnish, a former Forest Service deputy ... See all stories on this topic > Oregon's hard-hit timber counties are 'eating our seed corn' as budget ... OregonLive.com The county funding problem stems from the steep reduction in timber harvests on federal forests, which makes up 53 percent of the land in Oregon. Counties receive ... "We've got the tools to responsibly use our resources, but we need to have the will ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image001.jpg at 01CD9685.6AD8EAF0] OregonLive.com Citizens Coalition Wants Congress To Return Federal Lands To Oregon Counties KLCC FM Public Radio Wallowa County has endorsed a petition requesting the U.S. Congress to return federal land in Oregon to individual counties. ... We still want to be able to use our public lands, but we don't think that the federal management has been good for those ... See all stories on this topic > Oregon Canyon Mountains scouted for route along 700-mile Oregon Desert Trail OregonLive.com (blog) Getting formal approval is not necessary, though it is the group's goal, because all of this land along the trail is in public ownership and already available for use. If this trail idea catches on, towns like Paisley, Plush, Frenchglen, Fields and ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image002.jpg at 01CD9685.6AD8EAF0] OregonLive.com (blog) MacLaren appointed Deputy Director Statesman Journal (blog) Carrie has a long tenure working with the Oregon's land use program, both in the private sector and with public-interest organizations. Most recently, Carrie was an attorney at Black Helterline LLP, representing clients in all phases of the land use ... 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