From laura.buhl at state.or.us Fri Jun 20 12:39:26 2014 From: laura.buhl at state.or.us (Buhl, Laura) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:39:26 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for June 20, 2014 Message-ID: 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. ________________________________ Gorge Commission looks at city lines The Dalles Chronicle As Gorge commissioners prepared to tackle a tough issue, urban area expansion, facilitators on Monday, June 9, first asked them to list significant events that have impacted the gorge. Conservation group wants to buy forest land burned by fire on outskirts of Bend, Oregon Greenfield Daily Reporter A conservation group says the wildfire that burned more than ... The land was sold to creditors and eventually came to be owned by ... Portland street fee: Tuesday town hall moved to Oregon Convention Center to accommodate crowds The Oregonian Portland transportation officials are moving a street fee town hall for ... Portland business group to a ballroom at the Oregon Convention Center. The Connector bus sells $30, weeklong pass with unlimited riding, Portland to north Oregon coast The Oregonian Passenger await a connecting bus after arriving at Astoria Transit Center at ... In a transit program called the Connector, four local transit districts (not ... Intel starts negotiating new tax-break deal; ODOT postpones construction projects: Washington ... The Oregonian In other news, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it would postpone its new construction projects for at least a year due to federal ... ODOT sets aside millions for Columbia County coal, oil projects Longview Daily News The Oregon Department of Transportation is recommending about $6 million in projects for Columbia County transportation projects related to coal ... Federal funding uncertainty may cause delay of state's road projects KATU TIGARD, Ore. -- Would you be willing to pay more at the gas pump to keep road improvement projects going? Oregon's Department of Transportation ... Gas tax impasse hampers summer road repair CNBC.com >From Delaware to Oregon, state transportation officials have warned they may have to cancel projects outright until they are convinced that Congress ... Portland's Naked Bike Ride route debate; Foster Road 'diet'; TriMet ridership rebounding: Oregon ... The Oregonian Tualatin-Valley Highway is one of the state-maintained roads in Washington County. The Oregon Department of Transportation has decided to ... TriMet ridership on rise after long decline, but MAX boardings remain flat (poll) The Oregonian Still, the overall numbers should come as a relief to Oregon's largest public transit agency, which has experienced alarming declines even as transit ... ODOT won't lower speed limit along Oregon 47, despite Forest Grove officials' request The Oregonian Forest Grove officials lost their appeal to reduce the speed limit along Oregon 47 from the Tualatin Valley Highway to B Street, Mayor Pete Truax confirmed Thursday. City backs Glenwood street handoff The Register-Guard The council late Monday approved the transfer of Franklin Boulevard and McVay Highway in Glenwood from the Oregon Department of Transportation ... Lottery cash may go to bike, pedestrian projects KOIN.com Oregon's Bicycle Transportation Alliance was a major player in getting lawmakers to agree bike and pedestrian projects should get a chunk of the ... Bus depot makes cut Ontario Argus Observer Malheur County Council on Aging and Community Services is on the list being forwarded to the Oregon Transportation Commission, with a ... Some Oregon marijuana dispensaries caught in limbo between state and local laws The Oregonian Despite a state law meant to give dispensaries a firmer legal footing, about a dozen medical pot shops are in limbo in Oregon, holding state licenses that say they can operate but facing local ordinances that say they can't. LUBA to hear asphalt-plant appeal Mail Tribune ... Mountain View Paving's asphalt production facilities next to Bear Creek, asserts an appeal filed last week with Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals ... Oregon groups land $90M to spur rural investment Sustainable Business Oregon Two Oregon agencies will share $90 million in New Market Tax Credits, part of a $3.5 billion allocation announced this week by the U.S. Department ... Stanfield looking to revitalize downtown Hermiston Herald ... through a workshop hosted by the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development. McDonald's to open drive-thru near three Aloha schools The Oregonian Washington County in May approved a McDonald's land use application, ... The county's land use department estimates the restaurant will generate ... Legislature is a possible next step for UGB case Portland Tribune The future remains unclear for Woodburn's long-running urban growth boundary (UGB) expansion case, following the Oregon Supreme Court's 4-2 ... Joint Base Lewis-McChord collaborates with local agencies for land use strategies Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald The project, called the JBLM Joint Land Use Study (JLUS), focuses on the region's long-term land use plans, with goals of supporting the military ... >From other shores: Motorbikes will persist until Vietnam metro offers real public transit option: experts Thanh Nien Daily International experts attending the recent Asia Public Policy Forum in Ho Chi Minh City this month estimated that the town would continue to rely on ... 3D Printing in Sand: An Examination of Land and Conflict in Israel 3DPrint.com Rather than building up in plastic or molding in clay, they are printing, and reprinting, the history of Israeli land use in sand. The term they have coined ... Land Policy will drive Uganda towards industrialization... New Vision Land and Land use in Uganda are central to the actualisation of the core Constitutional values of human dignity, equality and the advancement of ... Laura Buhl, AICP, CNU-A | Land Use & Transportation Planner Planning Services Division | Transportation & Growth Management Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development 635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540 Direct: (503) 934-0073 | Main: (503) 373-0050 laura.buhl at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/LCD/TGM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: