From michael.morrissey at state.or.us Tue Sep 24 15:05:31 2013 From: michael.morrissey at state.or.us (Morrissey, Michael) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:05:31 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News September 24, 2013 Message-ID: <8E4EA4B8E876404292F6F09D24A772F82575548F@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. Thaaaat's aaallll folks! LUBA turns back LandWatch Bend Bulletin 12, the state Land Use Board of Appeals rejected five arguments raised by Central Oregon LandWatch, a Bend-based organization and frequent critic of the ... See all stories on this topic > Self-immolation, Land Use and Public Discourse in rural China ChicagoNow (blog) Self-immolation is on the increase in rural China. That's according to a recent article in the New York Times. I was stunned by this news. It set me thinking about land use and public discourse and human connection to place. Would you burn yourself up ... See all stories on this topic > Projects in west Bend bringing big changes Bend Bulletin By Elon Glucklich / The Bulletin Brian Dioguardi got a text message just before noon ... Transportation and Land Use Plan study for central and west Bend. City officials take bus tour to address land use The Bozeman Daily Chronicle >From a restaurant and cider manufacturing business downtown to a 10-acre park in a previously ceased subdivision, Bozeman leaders took a bus tour Monday to see city property that could be changed for new uses. The two-and-a-half-hour tour took city ... See all stories on this topic > Oregon's north-central grain belt: Cottonwood Canyon becomes new tourist ... OregonLive.com A reader told me about Cottonwood Canyon back in 2009, after the Western Rivers Conservancy had bought the land and was beginning to sell it to the State of Oregon for use as a state park. I had been there many times before, since it is an oasis in the ... See all stories on this topic > Land use fees will likely increase dramatically East Oregonian (subscription) Payments from developers to the city of Pendleton may rise up to 600 percent once city council settles on new land use fees. Pendleton City Council is in agreement that land use fees should increase. But there are no plans for the city to make money ... See all stories on this topic > Sagebrush Rebellion II: Some rural counties seek to influence federal land use High Country News The assumption underlying new county ordinances is that grazing permits are the "intangible" property of the permittee. Federal agencies, meanwhile, insist that grazing permits have always been a privilege, not a right. Download entire issue to view ... See all stories on this topic > Ashland OKs rules on tourist rentals Longview Daily News In business and multifamily zones, they'll need land-use approval, a business license and a fire inspection. They'll have to pay the city's 9 percent lodging tax. Vacation rentals in the Southern Oregon tourist destination are illegal in single-family ... See all stories on this topic > County land use plan backs more density | The Asheville Citizen ... Buncombe County's zoning rules would be changed to create incentives for construction of affordable housing and to make it easier to site single mobile homes ... www.citizen-times.com/.../County-land-use-plan-backs-more-... KTVZ: State Board Rejects Challenge To Bend Water Plan OPB News The latest round in the legal and land-use fight over Bend's big-ticket water system plans has gone the city's way, with the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals rejecting claims that the city failed to adequately show where the $100 million to fund the ... See all stories on this topic > Project Azalea 'on hold,' Oregon official says OregonLive.com It could be an enormous boost for either state, and public officials in Oregon want it so badly that they proposed a special bill during the last legislative session to clear out land-use obstacles that could have blocked it from occupying the 330-acre ... See all stories on this topic > Keeping marijuana use off US land a priority for DOJ, but unclear what states ... Washington Post TACOMA, Wash. - Karen Strand didn't think she'd get in trouble for having a small container of medical marijuana when she went hiking in Olympic National Park this summer. President Barack Obama, she remembered, had said the federal government had ... See all stories on this topic > City may restrict home rental offers to tourists Longview Daily News The City Council in the Southern Oregon tourist destination Ashland will consider whether to make it illegal to advertise a home for short stays without land-use approval, a business license and registration to pay city hotel taxes. The Daily Tidings ... See all stories on this topic > Land use changing in Prairie Pothole Region The Capital Journal Land use in the Prairie Pothole Region of the northern Great Plains has been shifting at an extraordinary rate, including changes in agriculture practices, the recent boom in petroleum production and rising tourism, according to a new U.S. Geological ... See all stories on this topic > Federal land use policies harm state, Kingman audience hears Kingman Daily Miner KINGMAN - The federal government has broken the contract it signed with the western states to either pay for or give the public land it held to those states when they were accepted into the union, by holding onto and limiting the use of the land, said ... 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: