From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Jul 10 17:05:31 2015 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:05:31 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for July 10, 2015 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF01C5C256F@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. ________________________________ Notable & Quotable: Burning Man Wall Street Journal Burning Man thrives on an ethos of self-governance, but the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management has, throughout the event's history, ... Your industrial-chic birthday party is killing city's industrial base Crain's Chicago Business Amid intensifying discussion about Chicago's industrial land-use policy, ... University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development. Painting the Town Purple OnEarth Magazine A new generation of conservative pundits is cheerfully blurring the line between red and blue-by embracing smart growth and New Urbanism. Marijuana remains illegal on federal lands in Oregon Statesman Journal The U.S. Forest Service put out a reminder that while recreational marijuana is legal in Oregon, it is prohibited on federal lands. The use, growing ... Think twice before you inhale: Marijuana is only legal in about half of Oregon OregonLive.com Stephen Baker, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon and Washington, offered rules of the road to anyone who travels onto the ... Forest Health Meeting In Klamath County, Public Invited myCentralOregon.com The meeting will conclude with updates from the Klamath Watershed Partnership, Oregon Department of Forestry, OSU-Klamath Basin Research ... Mighty oaks: Restoration projects aim to bring back an iconic Oregon landscape Corvallis Gazette Times In those days, much of Western Oregon was covered with this type of habitat, known today as oak savanna. Native peoples regularly set fires to keep ... The Controversial Metolian Resort May Get New Life-On the Coast Willamette Week Brian Clem and a map of possible resort locations in Clatsop County. ... made it easier for them to develop resorts within Oregon's strict land-use laws. Developer interested in building 'eco-resort' in Clatsop County East Oregonian (subscription) ... working for months to secure a development extension from the Oregon Legislature. ... The bill specifically lists Clatsop County as a potential site. How Oregon's legislative session impacts farmers Capital Press SALEM - With the conclusion of Oregon's 2015 legislative session, ... They may now lease or transfer water rights before formal adjudication of water ... Oregon Legislature adjourns 2015 session: The day's action KATU FILE - Oregon Capitol is shown surrounded by spring blossoms in Salem, Ore. ... The Oregon Legislature adjourned Monday evening. Here's a ... proposal should move forward given the likelihood of a major earthquake in the future. City seeks public input on Sensitive Lands revisions Pamplin Media Group So have property owners whose land would be added to the program ... Department of Land Conservation and Development and the Department of ... Dr. Tim K. Takaro: The significance of Pope Francis and the Lancet calling for action on climate and ... Straight.com ... under threat from drought and other extreme weather, forest fires, floods, loss of snow pack and glaciers, sea-level rise or acidification of the ocean. ENDANGERED SPECIES: New FWS polar bear plan calls for cutting greenhouse gases Environment & Energy Publishing The bears were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2008. The draft Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan set to be ... Scientists Need Your Help To Study Oregon Coast 'Blob,' Climate Oregon Coast Beach Connection (Oregon Coast) - Scientists from Corvallis are looking for some help from the ... The California drought has now lasted four years, and Oregon is in its ... God loves gentrification The Christian Century (blog) "God loves cities." This has been a mantra that has guided a new generation of evangelicals who have sought to take their Christian faith into the inner ... Do Latino Neighborhoods Have More to Fear from Gentrification? Huffington Post There have been numerous flare-ups in Austin over gentrification, with many Latino leaders claiming that rich newcomers are driving out long-time ... Weekend Reads: How Denver students are analyzing gentrification in their own neighborhoods Chalkbeat Tennessee Hillary Clinton will likely depart significantly from the Obama administration on education policy, but it's still difficult to predict what concrete policy ... Gentrification hurts the working class Daily Commercial "Gentrification" is a word many have never heard, but it is one of the biggest housing roadblocks facing the working class and poor communities. Growing flock of Bostonians embrace urban chicken-rearing Metro.us "A lot of people are starting to take more of a look at chicken-keeping and bee-keeping as the next step in the sort of full-circle urban gardening cycle," ... Eieio: Pittsburgh eases path for urban farming, complete with chickens, ducks and goats Minneapolis Star Tribune Shelly Danko+Day, who concentrates on urban farming and food policies for the city's planning department, said the old ordinance - passed in 2011 ... Healthiest Cities in Oregon NerdWallet (blog) The home of Oregon State University is also home to the most alternative-transportation friendly community in the entire state. About 27.6% of ... Oregon launches nation's first pay-per-mile tax system TI News Daily (press release) "We feel great about our first day enrollment numbers," Michelle Godfrey, public information officer with the Oregon Department of Transportation ... New art mural depicts history of local public transit KPTV.com The mural is part of the Public Art Program for the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project. Artist Blaine Fontana and his crew created the mural ... Kitsap Transit: Do a better job with outreach on meetings Bremerton Patriot Kitsap Transit scheduled a series of public meetings to let residents give input on the proposed Wheaton Way Transit Center in Silverdale and on the ... New Haven announces public transportation initiative aimed at building a greener city New Haven Register Ed Perzanowski, outreach manager for CT Rides, speaks on the steps of New Haven City Hall Monday. Peter Hvizdak - New Haven Register. Residents give feedback on how to make Burlington more walkable and bikeable WPTZ The Champlain Valley IT IS HIS PRIMARY MODE OF TRANSPORTATION . Clip 26 1:37:23- 1:37:38 bill morris/ burlington "the city still feels like a dangerous place for a ... Transit referendum results: Metro Vancouver votes "no" to tax hike for public transit expansion Straight.com ... sales tax for money that would go towards a plan to improve transportation infrastructure and public transit services throughout the Lower Mainland. With Megabond Flailing, City Leaders Look to Regional Fix Voice of San Diego "A regional measure is absolutely superior to a citywide measure," Parent said. He also pointed out that SANDAG's long-term transportation plan is ... Pike Place parking: Rising prices leave vendors questioning future Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) A change announced Monday by the Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority will boost parking rates at the market garage from $12 ... Why It's An Uphill Battle To Make Indianapolis A More Pedestrian Friendly City NPR ... out of the 50 largest cities. Indianapolis has limited resources to make changes, but grassroots efforts are working to create walkable communities. Question marks over Penang's ad hoc planning Free Malaysia Today ... of socio-economic blueprint, delayed land use plans and heritage demolition. ... government on whether it has a socio-economic development blueprint for ... state structural, local, and special area plans, which govern land use. Water-wise gardening: Managing your home landscape during a drought OregonLive.com Continuing drought conditions, low water reserves and high water rates don't mean you need to abandon your vision for a colorful garden or yard. BLM plan shows need for O&C legislation: Editorial Agenda 2015 OregonLive.com Over that time, the mostly rural Oregon counties with O&C lands have become increasingly desperate and the need to better manage the lands to - if ... Sage Grouse Management Meetings Planned myCentralOregon.com Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff is holding public meetings on proposed changes to administrative rules for managing sage-grouse in ... Legislature Funds Oregon's Fledgling Juniper Industry OPB News Juniper is a native Oregon species. But decades of fire ... That's a problem because juniper consumes sage grouse habitat and sucks up a lot of water. A Week in Yosemite: High Sierra Drought yourcentralvalley.com But there is not enough water for that. Nor is there enough snow. This winter had the worst Sierra snow pack in recorded history. For Costello, it was a ... Saving West's iconic landscapes from wildfires, one steppe at a time Christian Science Monitor A major driver behind the increasing severity of wildfires is a nearly ... tract that straddles the borders where California, Nevada, and Oregon meet. Shake And Bake: High Temps And A Quake Eugene Weekly The earthquake rattled people from Valley River Center to Hwy. ... Neither is true - Oregon really doesn't have fracking wells, and Doug Toomey, ... How Prepared Is Oregon For The Big One? OPB News Ted Wolf was on the state's school seismic safety task force and says the money will really boost earthquake preparedness. "And it will do much more. Preparing for The Big One The Register-Guard The July 4 quake and others that have rattled Oregon in recent years ... The now-abandoned transportation package would not have come close to ... 2015 Marks Banner Year For Earthquake Preparedness In Oregon OPB News You know legislators are serious about something when they appoint a czar like a drug czar. Well now, Oregon has the equivalent of its own ... 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: