From laura.lehman at state.or.us Fri May 2 15:18:55 2014 From: laura.lehman at state.or.us (Lehman, Laura) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 22:18:55 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News May 2, 2014 Message-ID: <75CEA9162A70214AA950529470B5F383250F654C@DLCDSXCH05.dlcd.state.or.us> Welcome to this week's roundup of the Land Use News! The Land Use News is an electronic news clipping service provided by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD). 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. ________________________________ Transit activist, urban scholar Benjamin Ross says Portland is a model for how cities should grow ... The Oregonian Ross will appear at Powell's Books on Hawthorne Monday at 7:30 pm courtesy of 1,000 Friends of Oregon, Portland Transport and Oregon Walks... LNG pipeline permit headed to land use board Herald and News Douglas County commissioners have refused to hear an appeal of a permit for a pipeline through southwestern Oregon to carry ... LNG roils county commission race Daily Astorian With three commission seats to be determined in the election, the county's stance on Oregon LNG's proposed pipeline could change if a land-use ... Transit Group Seeks Input On Low-Income Needs Eugene Weekly She says low-income housing residents have higher rates of use of alternative transportation modes - walking, biking and public transit... Oregon ranked 5th most bike-friendly state by the League BikePortland.org Oregon ranked 5th most bike-friendly state by the League ... eighth-place in 2011 (which the Oregon Department of Transportation took exception to)... Oregon pedestrian deaths in line with national average Statesman Journal The Department of Transportation and state agencies, including Oregon, are trying to bring those numbers down through local efforts and operations ... Forest Grove adopts ban on medical marijuana dispensaries; Oregon 47 and Fern Hill Road town ... The Oregonian Instead, she asked whether the Oregon Department of Transportation's ... to address future plans for the interchange at Fern Hill Road and Oregon 47... OSU-Cascades campus delayed Bend Bulletin Facing an extended land use review process that may delay the opening of its planned four-year campus, Oregon State University-Cascades Campus ... EPA biomass delay almost up Bend Bulletin "At this stage, EPA is considering the recommendations made by the SAB to determine next steps." Oregon's congressional delegation pushed for the ... Firearms range shot down by zoning regulations Albany Democrat Herald The Oregon School of Gunfighting, a firearms training ... that such an operation isn't legal on farm land because of zoning regulations... Shushing TriMet's talking buses; Portland's freaky blue traffic lights: Oregon transportation week The Oregonian In recent weeks, Portland residents living along bus routes have repeatedly called Oregon's largest transit agency to complain about the audible ... State Questions legality of Talent Asphalt Batch Plant KAJO Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals has remanded the issue of Mountain View Paving's changing from concrete to an asphalt batch plant in 2001 to ... Laura Lehman, AICP | Land Use & Transportation Planner Planning Services Division Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development 635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540 Office: (503) 934-0059 | Fax: (503) 378-5518 laura.lehman at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/LCD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: