From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri May 15 14:43:04 2015 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 21:43:04 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for May 15, 2015 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF01C58C639@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. ________________________________ Why would the Oregon Legislature help out Monsanto? BlueOregon HB 3212 would broadly expand the controversial landowner compensations rights first approved in Measure 37 and amended in Measure 49 to ... Legislators grapple with medical marijuana rules The Register-Guard "What we're dealing with here is an entrenched (medical marijuana) ... Burdick and others say Oregon's medical marijuana program has grown far ... surveys of farmers, found that licensed medical marijuana growers produce three ... Thousands petition Oregon governor to stop Nestl? deal Statesman Journal Thousands of people have submitted comments opposing a controversial water-rights trade in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge. The deal will allow the ... Oregon bill could roll back environmental regulations Statesman Journal In a March public hearing, Oregon Department of Agriculture land use ... is sponsored by the House Committee on Rural Communities, Land Use and ... Oregon mayors plead for more state transportation funds Portland Tribune Mayors from 44 Oregon cities have written to legislative leaders calling for state lawmakers to pass a comprehensive transportation funding package. Oregon transportation package stalls as Republicans dig in over clean fuels Portland Business Journal (blog) Oregon's clean fuels legislation, designed to reduce the state's transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, is under fire as Oregon House ... A swap on transportation The Register-Guard Under the program, Oregon will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels by 10 percent by 2025. The reduction will be achieved by ... Exploring the climate and health benefits from public transit Business Spectator In high-density urban environments, public transit investments, less reliance on private automobiles, and vehicle emission controls equivalent to Euro ... ABC of City Planning: Not Just For Children CHPC Archives In 1937, Mayor La Guardia's Committee on City Planning produced a small book for children, titled The ABC of City Planning, intended to instill understanding and enthusiasm in children for the city's built environment... With Clean Fuels as law, Oregon biofuel maker prepares for major expansion Portland Business Journal (blog) Clean Fuels requires lower carbon transportation fuels in Oregon and is designed to cut the state's transportation-related green house gas emissions ... Why Portland Desperately Needs More Urban Density Portland Monthly But here's the surprising truth: Portland ranks near the bottom of West Coast cities for the very qualities it champions: dense, mixed-use urban ... European Cities Try to Make Cars Unwelcome Planetizen Many cities in Europe are rediscovering their pre-automobile roots, using new technologies like ride-sharing and congestion pricing and old-fashioned ones like demolishing parking lots and dense development. Car ownership is dropping precipitously. Outrageous land-use legislation (OPINION) OregonLive.com Oregon's land use laws are designed to preserve what's valuable and unique. Compare the drive from Seattle to Olympia to the drive from Portland to ... Central Oregon LandWatch Discusses UGB KBND BEND, OR -- Central Oregon LandWatch is raising concerns with Bend's Urban Growth Boundary expansion process. The UGB expansion is ... City withdraws plan for UGB expansion Pamplin Media Group DLCD referred review of the amendment to the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC), which began a series of hearings on the ... Sustained yield timber needed to benefit Oregon counties The Register-Guard The Oregon & California Railroad forest lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management have a unique mandate that they be managed under ... What Does the Future Hold for Oregon's Family-Owned Forests? Jefferson Public Radio Together they own almost half of Oregon's private forests, a protective ... And now more lots are being subdivided nearby on land owned by a timber ... This is how a forest fixes itself KRCRTV.COM Both have examined the landscapes of the two fires and determined why the Oregon Fire land remains desolate while the Eagle Fire land hosts life. Graywater? Snowpack? A glossary of drought jargon 89.3 KPCC But a complex issue like drought comes wrapped in its own jargon. If you've caught yourself wondering what terms like "graywater," "snowpack" or ... Inland Northwest weather likely to remain drier than normal The Spokesman Review In southeastern Oregon, there is now extreme drought with severe drought over central Oregon and south-central Washington. The Columbia Basin ... A Potential First: Lane County Asks For Drought Declaration OPB News Lane County is joining the list of those asking the state for an emergency drought declaration. It's the first Western Oregon county to make the request ... Starbucks Moves Ethos Water Sourcing Out of California Due to Drought myCentralOregon.com "Due to the serious drought conditions and necessary water conservation efforts in California, Starbucks is moving the sourcing and manufacturing of ... After The Boom, Bringing Back The Forests Inside Energy As a botanist with the state Department of Conservation and Natural ... of state forest land is already available for oil and gas development- either ... San Francisco commuters snub public transit for $6 bus ride Marin Independent Journal Leap commuters use their smartphones during a bus ride in San Francisco. The company launched the service last month. AP Photo - Jeff Chiu. Do Light Rail and Gentrification Go Hand in Hand? Seattle Weekly In a sign of just how much gentrification is on everyone's mind in Seattle, even at a press conference called to promote Murray's package, support for ... Lifestyle trumps affordability in central Seattle, even for some budget-stretchers The Seattle Times 1 concern in our region as a whole - but not so in Seattle's center, south of the Ship Canal and north of I-90, where most say "having a walkable ... US Honeybee Population Plummets by More Than 40%, USDA Finds EcoWatch "Bayer, Syngenta and Monsanto make billions from bee-killing pesticide products ... Are they more important than the livelihoods of America's farmers? If modern farming can't sustain bees, how much longer can it sustain us? The Ecologist Our bees and wider farmland ecosystems have been seriously harmed by ... The regulatory system for pesticides - which does not take into account ... LIST: DC belongs to top bikeable cities W*USA 9 WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- D.C. belongs to the top ten most bikeable cities in the nation, according to a new ranking by Walk Score released on ... Here's Definitive Proof Gentrification Is Racist, As Told By A Participating Brooklyn Landlord News One And we've long known that gentrification, the process of "renewing" urban areas which subsequently moves out its original residents, can be a racist ... Hip Restaurants, Harbingers of Gentrification, Try to Be Better Neighbors TakePart As one of the first signs of gentrification in changing neighborhoods, some restaurants that might otherwise alienate longtime residents are trying to ... The two-track dynamic in global realty markets gulfnews.com This "millennial" generation of people in their 20s look for urban lifestyles where they can work-shop-live and play all within a vibrant walkable ... Lot Lines: Walking matters Journal Record (subscription) Properties in highly walkable locations show significantly greater appreciation than car-dependent locations. These findings are seen in both urban ... Hawaii Passes Legislation to Go 100% Renewable Greentech Media Renewable energy advocates in the state believe the changes would add crippling costs to small projects. The Oregon Public Utility Commission is ... Fort To Sea Trail History and nature on Oregon coast Albany Democrat Herald ... scenes from the Fort to Sea Trail at Fort Clatsop in the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, near Astoria in Clatsop County on the Oregon coast. Top 10 outdoors attractions in Clatsop County: Wild about Oregon coast OregonLive.com The Columbia River estuary, near Astoria in Clatsop County, Oregon. ... Then 10 more each for Tillamook, Lincoln, Coos and Curry counties, then 10 ... Law | Clatsop County, OR Bans Smoking In Parks The Cigar Authority Clatsop County, Oregon is located in the Northwest corner of the state just below the Washington State line and is home to 37,000 residents over ... Razor clam harvest ban extends coastwide OregonLive.com Razor clams at Fort Stevens State Park, in Clatsop County on the Oregon coast, near Warrenton, Oregon. April 19, 2015. Terry Richard/Staff. High Hopes for Portland Housing Fall Short Portland Oregonian Portland leaders pledged bold action and clear results in 2011 after undercover testing suggested that African American and Latino renters face frequent discrimination. Sutton Mountain Wilderness Legislations Introduced by Sen. Merkley Portland Oregonian Sen. Jeff Merkley introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate on Thursday to protect Sutton Mountain as a wilderness area. Sadie K Carney | Rural Policy Analyst/Communications Manager Director's Office Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development 635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540 Direct: (503) 934-0036 | Cell: (503) 383-6648 | Main: (503) 373-0050 sadie.carney at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/LCD/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: