From laura.buhl at state.or.us Fri Aug 15 15:24:33 2014 From: laura.buhl at state.or.us (Buhl, Laura) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:24:33 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for August 15, 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. ________________________________ Garvey Schubert Barer Land Use Attorney Edward J. Sullivan is Honored with a Lifetime ... PR Web (press release) He has shaped the Oregon land use system, starting with his influence on the seminal Senate Bill 100 drafting and adoption, taken land use battles to ... Housing advocates sharpen tongues when frustrated by house speaker Tina Kotek's work group The Oregonian A coalition of 18 housing advocacy organizations is questioning the legitimacy of a legislative work group convened by Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek. At the heart of the conflict is Oregon's 15-year-old state law prohibiting local governments from requiring developers to provide affordable residential units as part of big, new construction projects. Property tax changes lead cities' priorities Portland Tribune Changes in Oregon's 2-decade-old property tax limits lead the list of 2015 legislative priorities for the League of Oregon Cities. Also on the list are more money for street maintenance and other transportation needs, clarification of marijuana laws, protection of cities' authority to charge for use of public rights of way ... Oregon gets serious about water programs Oregon Business Journal Oregon leaders want to improve the way the state manages water. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber revealed several steps on a new water initiative designed to improve Oregon's year-round water management. One idea: To seek private investment in new water projects On opposite ends of Oregon, Portland and Medford economies contrast The Oregonian Nearly six years after the economy collapsed, and more than four since it began turning around, most Oregon metro areas are now expanding at near-normal rates. How many among us are native Oregonians? Oregon Public Broadcasting If you were born in Oregon and still living in the state, you're actually in the minority. Decaying Fish Culverts Could Be Fixed With Agreement Between Departments Jefferson Public Radio According to the Oregon Department of Transportation, about one third of those are in poor condition and need to be replaced. But funding those ... Drought-tolerant oilseed crop gets Oregon field trials, shows promise for dry years (photo) The Oregonian "It's not a high-return crop but at least something could be produced off the land with very little water," he said. Nyssa area farmer Paul Skeen said the ... State panel set to approve projects Portland Tribune -Dock improvements would ease coal, oil shipments.- The Oregon Transportation Commission is set to approve $42 million in state bonds for 37 nonhighway projects, including three proposed to ease the movement of coal and oil through the state. ODOT designing Highway 97 wildlife overpass Bend Bulletin A small portion of the money the Oregon Department of Transportation has spent to expand the highway south of Bend has been dedicated to ... Making their case for sage grouse hunting Bend Bulletin ... be a protected species, another federal agency is set late this week to release proposed land use plan amendments pertaining to the bird in Oregon. Bend Seeks Public Input On Growth Boundary myCentralOregon.com BEND, OR - As the Bend City Council decides on which direction to expand the Urban Growth Boundary, the public is invited to make their voices ... Bicyclists and Pedestrians Have Voice in Local Government myCentralOregon.com BEND, OR - With alternative transportation growing in popularity throughout Central Oregon, the Deschutes County Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory ... City ready to sell 16 acres of waterfront land: Portland City Hall Roundup The Oregonian The city of Portland owns about 16 acres of prime waterfront real estate that it wants to put on the market. On Wednesday, the Portland City Council considered designating land owned by the Bureau of Environmental Services as surplus, enabling its sale. Piano, pingpong, Pilates: Can park be transformed? Portland Tribune Programming worked at Director Park; city banks on similar success at Lloyd area's Holladay Tale of two designs: O'Bryant Square languishes; Director Park flourishes Portland Tribune . . . Director Park has shown what intelligent programming and around the clock security can accomplish. Holladay Park next to the Lloyd Center is on its way to joining the list of Portland destination parks. O'Bryant Square is, well, the counterpoint, an example of what happens when a city park is badly designed and allowed to determine its own fate. I-5 a blessing and a curse for Wilsonville Portland Tribune You may not be familiar with the economic theory of induced demand. But, if you've spent any amount of time suffering through traffic at the Wilsonville Road-I-5 interchange, you've experienced it. A $21.5 million project added capacity to the critical intersection three years ago. That increased capacity, in turn, "induced" more people to use the road, resulting in the same kind of traffic snarls the original project was intended to relieve. Straub family opposes growth plan The Register-Guard The largest landowner in an area where city officials are looking to expand Springfield's urban growth boundary has come out against the proposal. The Straub family, which owns 56 acres within the proposed expansion into the Seavey Loop area, has told the lead planner on the project it has shifted its stance from neutral to opposed and requested its land be excluded from the expansion. Curry County residents sprayed by herbicide sue challenging constitutionality of Oregon's right-to ... The Oregonian They say they have the right to keep people -- and pesticides - from trespassing on their land. "You can keep people off your property even though ... Judge forces pesticide spraying buffers on EPA to protect Northwest salmon streams The Oregonian The final agreement has been filed in a decade-long battle to get the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set buffer zones to keep some harmful agricultural pesticides out of salmon streams in Oregon, California and Washington. Joseph Canyon continues Nez Perce Tribe's Oregon Wallowa County connection; hike to bottom ... The Oregonian - OregonLive.com After hiking to the bottom on Joseph Canyon on Wallowa-Whitman National Forest land in 2012, without benefit of a trail, I learned there is a trail to the ... First public meeting to discuss Oso mudslide set for Aug. 22 HeraldNet Panelists have backgrounds in geology, land-use planning, public safety and other relevant fields and plan to visit the site before the first meeting. Ambitious SDGs are empty without bold action on land Devex All but four of the 17 sustainable development goals are directly linked to land use. Want People to Take Public Transportation to Work? Don't Provide Free Parking Care2.com One option is to provide transit passes, the idea being that if a bus or subway pass is free for a worker than they will be more likely to take public ... Uber and Lyft move into the carpool lane with UberPool, Lyft Line apps Christian Science Monitor Uber and Lyft have occupied a grey area between individual car ownership and more traditional forms of public transportation like buses, taxis, and ... 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: