From michael.morrissey at state.or.us Mon Apr 22 11:21:11 2013 From: michael.morrissey at state.or.us (Morrissey, Michael) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:21:11 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News April 22, 2013 Message-ID: <8E4EA4B8E876404292F6F09D24A772F8256DB1AC@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. 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See all stories on this topic > An interesting article about who wins and loses. http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21574465-property-rights-and-economic-growth-may-not-always-go-together-property-and Portland City Council to take up proposed parking minimums for apartment ... OregonLive.com Neighbors challenged the city's building permit with the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, and the permit was overturned based on an error unrelated to parking. The city initially took the position that the developer, Dennis Sackhoff's Urban ... See all stories on this topic > [cid:image001.jpg at 01CE3F4B.7E456FE0] OregonLive.com Judge clears way for Islamic group to open facility near Naperville Chicago Sun-Times In a decision issued late Friday, Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer agreed with the assertion by the Irshad Learning Center that the county had violated provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act in denying its request for a ... See all stories on this topic > SOAPBOX: The issue of land use MyWebTimes.com Farming is a noble profession. Our forefathers who wrote the Constitution of the United States were farmers. George Washington farmed at Mount Vernon, Va., John Adams farmed at Braintree, Mass., and Thomas Jefferson farmed many acres at Monticello, ... See all stories on this topic > Brookings Oregon News, Sports, & Weather | The Curry Coastal Pilot Curry Coastal Pilot Curry County Commissioners took a five-minute break from budget discussions Wednesday and approved the tentative master plan for Crook Point Golf Course, a project that has been hung up for years in planning negotiations and land use appeals. See all stories on this topic > Judge says county can prohibit gravel pits Peoria Journal Star Chief Peoria County Judge Michael Brandt ruled last week the county did not err when it denied Mossville Land Investments LLC two special use permits for the pits, which would have been southwest of Chillicothe. In 2008, Mossville Land Investments ... See all stories on this topic > State senators compromise on bill to repeal land agency Maui News Chairman David Ige says the bill is now a "clean repeal" of the agency, which has been under fire for months because of its exemptions from county land use regulations. Both the House and the Senate voted to abolish the agency earlier this session in ... See all stories on this topic > State land-use review office faces move to DelDOT The News Journal Part of the idea behind the State Planning Office was to limit politics from land-use decisions. Placing it within DelDOT, an agency where many say politics has played too big of a role in decision-making, has raised eyebrows. There are also worries ... See all stories on this topic > Oregon LNG appeal struck down by Oregon Supreme Court Daily Astorian 12 asking the Oregon Supreme Court to review the Clatsop County Commission initial denial of a land use application in March 2011. "This is a resounding victory for the citizens of Clatsop County," stated Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of the ... See all stories on this topic > Oregon LNG Appeal Struck Down By Oregon Supreme Court OPB News The Oregon Pipeline Company, also known as Oregon LNG, filed an appeal Dec. 12 asking the Oregon Supreme Court to review the Clatsop County Commission initial denial of a land use application in March 2011. "This is a resounding victory for the ... See all stories on this topic > 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... 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