From michael.morrissey at state.or.us Sun Apr 7 15:34:03 2013 From: michael.morrissey at state.or.us (Morrissey, Michael) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 22:34:03 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News-April 8, 2013 Message-ID: <8E4EA4B8E876404292F6F09D24A772F8256CBBC4@DLCDSXCH05.dlcd.state.or.us> A bit of Oregon-related news, and a bonus on British reality television with a land use focus. 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 County counters land-use objections Daily Record-News Three citizen advocacy groups maintain Kittitas County government's land-use rules still don't protect the county's rural character despite more than a year of work by the county to re-examine and change its rural land-use policies in response to ... See all stories on this topic > Business blasts land-use plan Portland Tribune by: TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT - Justin Zeulner, president of the neighborhood business Longstanding tensions between the business community and City Hall surfaced last week during a briefing on the ongoing update of Portland's ... See all stories on this topic > Britain's Oddly Captivating Reality Show About Land Use The Atlantic Cities Despite breakthrough international hits like Downton Abbey, many Americans struggle when they're placed on a diet of pure British television. One American friend of mine who lived here for a while complained that, after coming home through grey streets ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image001.jpg at 01CE33A5.55474E80] The Atlantic Cities Land Use at the Legislature WilliametteLive.com Because Oregon development planning is not static or dry, but impacts "public health, safety and welfare" on a daily, living breathing basis, 40 years ago then-Governor Tom McCall signed into law an innovative state land use planning system to promote ... See all stories on this topic > More People, Fewer Homes in Uptown Voice of San Diego The area is well served (by San Diego standards) by public transit - especially once a planned rapid bus service in the area begins running - and is home to multiple commercial centers, but in a draft land use map released in July, the city calls for ... See all stories on this topic > Tribes, conservationists, fishermen propose own plan for land use in Bristol ... The Republic JUNEAU, Alaska - Tribes and conservation interests are proposing their own land-use plan for the Bristol Bay region. The so-called draft "Citizens' Alternative" was delivered to the state Department of Natural Resources Monday. DNR in January proposed ... See all stories on this topic > R.I. towns object to land use legislation The Westerly Sun Rural towns have opposed previous land use bills, fearing they would override their zoning regulations and threaten wetlands. The Rhode Island Builders Association has consistently supported state legislation over the years and has continued to lobby ... See all stories on this topic > The Smart Land Use Program Both Democrats and Republicans Love Streetsblog Capitol Hill (blog) These parcels average 6.5 acres each, together amounting to some 4,570 square miles of contaminated land, Smart Growth America estimates. Virtually every community in the country has one of these sites, which further the impression among developers ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE33A5.55474E80] Streetsblog Capitol Hill (blog) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1269 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1366 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: