From michael.morrissey at state.or.us Tue Oct 2 15:16:57 2012 From: michael.morrissey at state.or.us (Morrissey, Michael) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:16:57 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News October 2, 2012 Message-ID: <8E4EA4B8E876404292F6F09D24A772F825649FD1@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 Veteran Hillsboro planning director retiring, but not calling it quits OregonLive.com ZW.Ribellia.jpg View full sizeCity of HillsboroPat Ribellia is retiring as Hillsboro planning director, but the veteran city official will slide into a legistlative role for Oregon's 2013 session. Hillsboro will lose one of its most senior and ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image001.jpg at 01CDA0B0.F651D9E0] OregonLive.com Land use board upholds county's approval of winery expansion Capital Press (subscription) The state Land Use Board of Appeals has upheld Yamhill County's decision to grant Stoller Winery a conditional use permit to expand its Dayton, Ore., winery, despite noting the expansion pushes the limits of Oregon's land use laws. The board determined ... See all stories on this topic > LUBA hears Baker Rock arguments McMinnville News-Register But in a Thursday hearing challenging county approval, attorneys for Protect Grand Island told the state Land Use Board of Appeals that pledge ignores the reality of Oregon water rights laws. The county approval would allow the company to mine 175 ... See all stories on this topic > Land would have to be rezoned before Knife River could dig quarry The Register-Guard The land is outside Springfield's urban growth boundary but within the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan boundary plan, so by current city and county rules it is under joint city and county planning control. That means the land use designation can be ... See all stories on this topic > State approves La Pine land-use plan, UGB KTVZ The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development acknowledged the city of La Pine's Comprehensive Plan and Urban Growth Boundary on Thursday. This milestone enables La Pine to exercise local control of city land use issues (zoning, land ... See all stories on this topic > For neighbors, UO golf course plan raises many issues The Register-Guard Most golf courses end up with housing developments ringing the greens - but not in Oregon, Evans said. Oregon land use laws largely protect agricultural lands from development. The land around the proposed golf course is designated exclusively for ... See all stories on this topic > As farm industry in Washington County changes, its cultural and economic ... OregonLive.com According to a 2012 Oregon Department of Agriculture study on the valuation of agriculture in the state, "$1.3 billion in land and attached assets are generating nearly $2 billion per year in local and regional economic activity" in Washington County ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image002.jpg at 01CDA0B0.F651D9E0] OregonLive.com Rajneeshpuram cabins still in good condition, seek tenants OregonLive.com A plan to house central Oregon's homeless in dozens of small A-frame cabins appears to be on indefinite hold, but the cabins themselves - bits of central Oregon history - are still out there. In October, 2009, Bend ... But they quickly ran up against ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image003.jpg at 01CDA0B0.F651D9E0] OregonLive.com 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1711 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2103 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1906 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: