From laura.lehman at state.or.us Fri Oct 24 15:46:55 2014 From: laura.lehman at state.or.us (Lehman, Laura) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:46:55 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News October 24, 2014 Message-ID: <75CEA9162A70214AA950529470B5F3832A7452E0@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. ________________________________ Multnomah County seeks volunteers to help revise rural transportation, land use plan The Oregonian - OregonLive.com Sauvie Island, seen here, is among the county's rural areas, where changes to land use and transportation planning could be ahead as Multnomah ... ODOT, ODFW work out plan to repair culverts KTVZ Oregon taxpayers and native fish will both benefit under a new culvert repair pilot program agreed upon by the Oregon departments of Transportation ... Oregon: Efficiency measures should be counted toward carbon caps Utility Dive Oregon state officials say they will not be able to comply with new carbon pollution standards unless the Environmental Protection Agency counts the ... The fight for Damascus: Land-use struggle heads to ballot Portland Tribune Oregon land-use expert Ed Sullivan was an attorney for Rajneeshpuram, ... requiring cities to pass a comprehensive land-use plan within four years ... Things about the Portland are that planners can't change: Editorial The Oregonian If you commute along U.S. 26 between Portland and either Beaverton or Hillsboro, you've probably spent some time stuck in traffic wondering why more people don't live closer to their jobs. Portland Mayor Charlie Hales talks Swiss chard, urban growth boundary, millennials with ... The Oregonian - OregonLive.com The Washington Post touted Portland's investment in light rail, showed here by the Tilikum Crossing bridge, as evidence of the city's allure to younger ... Chad area lands a Starbucks The Register-Guard At this time, we remain focused on serving communities at our existing stores in Oregon and have no store-opening plans to announce." Starbucks ... A 'sauce magnate,' gelatinous sheep goo and development in a small Oregon town Washington Post (blog) In August, the city moved to sell a 12-acre site to Eastwind Development LLC, Yoshida's company. A final vote on the land sale and the development ... Preservation of Wallowa Lake's east moraine moves ahead with public, private partnership The Oregonian - OregonLive.com This undated photo shows a prominent part of one of Oregon's premier ... deposit dates to the adoption of the county land use plan in the 1970s. Public access to federal sage grouse workshop criticized Portland Oregonian A meeting next week in Fort Collins about the greater sage-grouse has drawn fire from several western representatives who want to know why public attendance is limited while regulators focus on possible land use issues. Where young college graduates are choosing to live New York Times When young college graduates decide where to move, they are not just looking at the usual suspects, like New York, Washington and San Francisco. Other cities are increasing their share of these valuable residents at an even higher rate and have reached a high overall percentage, led by Denver, San Diego, Nashville, Salt Lake City and Portland, Ore., according to a report published Monday by City Observatory, a new think tank. Economist doubts east county bridge is viable The Columbian Tina Kotek, Oregon's House speaker, has declined to comment on the bridge, referring questions to the Oregon Department of Transportation. Work begins on Southern Oregon's first dedicated mountain bike trail Mail Tribune The Mountain of the Rogue trail project plans to construct a new trailhead on Bureau of Land Management property near the Seventh-day Adventist ... Where young people go to retire? Pfft. Southern Oregon drawing real retirees and their money, state economist says Portland Oregonian Thanks to the show "Portlandia," Oregon's biggest city is the butt of a national joke as the place "where young people go to retire." Yet it turns out that Southern Oregon -- the state's longtime Timber Belt -- may be the real retiree magnet. More people, in fact, are moving in than are leaving the area behind. One by one, tribes begin saying no to Wyoming coal tour Oregon Public Broadcasting Last week Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead invited leaders from Northwest tribes on an all-expenses-paid tour of his states coal operations. Representatives from eight tribal governments in the Northwest, as well as tribal liaisons from the Oregon and Washington state governments, have been invited. Environmental groups say Oregon got it wrong with oil terminal permit Jefferson Public Radio Local and national environmental groups filed a petition Friday claiming Oregon erred in granting an air quality permit to Oregon's largest oil train terminal. Their petition claims the Department of Environmental Quality should have considered pollution from the trains and ships that move oil in and out of the terminal, rather than just the terminal itself. Coast Guard to discuss closure of Newport air facility Oregon Public Broadcasting The U.S. Coast Guard plans to attend a community meeting Monday in Newport to explain why its shutting one of its three air facilities along the Oregon coast. William J. Ronan, Architect of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Dies at 101 New York Times "Building the M.T.A., consolidating all the transportation entities, took a ... "We're making up for 30 years of do-nothingism in mass transportation," he ... Oregon Iron Works wins a piece of massive Transbay Transit Center project The Oregonian - OregonLive.com Oregon Iron Works, a unit of Vigor Industrial, said it had been chosen as a subcontractor on the $4.5 billion transportation and housing project that ... Metro buys more land in Newell Creek Canyon, plans public access to the natural area in 2016 The Oregonian - OregonLive.com Metro is buying more land in Oregon City's Newell Creek Canyon. State will again be asked to pitch in on federal forest restoration Bend Bulletin Hoping to increase the pace and expand the scale of forest restoration projects around the state, the Oregon Department of Forestry is asking Gov. John Kitzhaber for more money to support collaboratives. Public invited to comment on pollinator protection plan Statesman Journal Establish a state-of-the-art bee health diagnostic facility at Oregon State ... Direct the Oregon Department of Transportation to establish pollinator ... 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: