From michael.morrissey at state.or.us Sun Feb 24 14:50:53 2013 From: michael.morrissey at state.or.us (Morrissey, Michael) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:50:53 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News February 25, 2013 Message-ID: <8E4EA4B8E876404292F6F09D24A772F825699937@DLCDSXCH05.dlcd.state.or.us> Lotsa stuff to chew on. 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 BC's Land Use Laws 'Hardwired for Failure' Marketwire (press release) VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 21, 2013) - Two reports released today show gaping holes in BC conservation, both on the ground and hardwired in its laws. Maps of BC depicting all environmental land use designations in the ... See all stories on this topic > Land Use and Tax Revenue in Fairfax County Bacon's Rebellion I highlight one of those now: Alanna McKeeman, who performed an in-depth analysis of the Fairfax County tax base for her 2012 Master's Thesis in urban planning at Virginia Tech, "Land Use, Municipal Revenue Impacts, and Land Consumption." McKeeman ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image001.jpg at 01CE129E.57F686F0] Bacon's Rebellion Quarry foes lose state appeal The Register-Guard But the Land Use Board of Appeals said that as long as Demers and the McDougals - doing business as Lost Creek Rock Products LLC - conduct all their gravel extraction and processing at least 200 feet back from the quarry property's perimeter, there's ... See all stories on this topic > The New Threat From Land Use Regulations CSNews Online >From San Francisco to Minneapolis to Fort Lauderdale, the use of land use zoning powers and health impact assessments (HIA) to address public health issues is becoming a real and growing threat to commercial development. Los Angeles was one of the ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE129E.57F686F0] CSNews Online YVC: Land-Use Planning Under Attack ICL Blog (blog) Several efforts are underway to undo or undermine land-use planning in Idaho. Land-use planning allows local governments to plan for the needs of the community and safeguard natural resources. It's an important tool for keeping the character of our ... See all stories on this topic > As land use planning changes, 'zoning' is no longer appropriate Washington Post Let's dump the word "zoning," as in zoning ordinances that govern how land is developed and how buildings often are designed. Land-use regulation is still needed, but zoning increasingly has become a conceptually inappropriate term, an obsolete ... See all stories on this topic > Growth prompts call for Cullowhee land-use plan Waynesville Smoky Mountain News The goal for now is not enacting land-use regulations, but merely getting county commissioners to appoint a task force to start the ball rolling. The majority of county commissioners have said they are amenable to the idea, with a couple of caveats: it ... See all stories on this topic > Critics sue to block new land use plan for Lake Tahoe Sparks Today A broad-based plan designed to guide land use at Lake Tahoe for decades is "deeply flawed," fails to protect an endangered environment and should be scrapped, two environmental groups argue in a lawsuit filed Monday against the Tahoe Regional ... See all stories on this topic > Angwin land-use battle topped election spending Napa Valley Register Pacific Union College was Napa County's biggest spender in the 2012 election cycle, as it pumped in almost $500,000 of its own money to defeat a land-use initiative that targeted three of the college's parcels in Angwin. The college funded the ... See all stories on this topic > State commission gives Damascus council until August to approve land-use plan ... OregonLive.com Morgan said if the city does not meet the August deadline, the state commission will likely hand over Damascus' land use planning to Clackamas County. He said it likely will revoke some state money from the city and give that money to the county to do ... See all stories on this topic > Oregon Land Use Bills Aim to Limit Wetland Restoration | Davis ... Three Oregon legislators have introduced bills on behalf of the Oregon Farm Bureau requiring land... www.jdsupra.com/.../oregon-land-use-bills-aim-to-limit-wetla-... 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: 2182 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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