From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Oct 30 14:44:24 2015 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 21:44:24 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for October 30, 2015 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF01C65CF72@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. 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Port of Newport receives $2 million for facility to serve Oregon agricultural producers OregonLive.com The $2 million grant from the federal Department of Transportation will be used to leverage more money from state sources to finish a shipping facility, ... Planning Commission approves new Sensitive Lands program Pamplin Media Group Planning Commission approves new Sensitive Lands program ... might make the program non-compliant with Metro and state land-use planning ... Can employers help with affordable housing?: Editorial OregonLive.com Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is among elected leaders who have suggested that employer-assisted housing be considered as one way to address the ... City Council takes two big strides to boost affordable housing funding Pamplin Media Group Three weeks after declaring an ?affordable housing crisis? in Portland, the City Council unanimously approved two new policies Wednesday that will ... Portland Worries About Homelessness, While Metro Makes Housing Less Affordable Oregon Catalyst The Portland City Council has decided to allocate $20 million to solve a perceived crisis with ?homelessness? and another $67 million to subsidize ... Bend-area housing shortage extra tough on mentally ill Herald and News BEND (AP) ? The lack of housing might be dire in Central Oregon, but the situation is even more so for those who experience mental illness. Housing ... The great butterfly massacre Portland Tribune The Endangered Species Act protects both the butterflies and the lupines (a native wildflower), making the incident a double-endangered disaster ... Gold vs. salmon: Oregon miners blast ban on suction dredging Fox News The state is imposing a ban on the practice in the interest of protecting ... and former Director of the Oregon Department of State Lands Mary Abrams, ... EPA announces $2 million in DERA funding for Pacific Northwest EP News Wire State and local organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington will receive nearly $2 million in funding from the Environmental Protection ... Oregon's coastal counties oppose offshore renewable energy plan Portland Tribune The petition to overturn the latest sea plan rests on a procedural issue: whether the Land Conservation and Development Commission could legally ... Editorial: Oregon governor should not try to tilt LNG process EagleFordTexas.com (press release) Editorial: Oregon governor should not try to tilt LNG process ... State agencies, including the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of State Lands, must approve permits before the project can move forward, and ... 2015 Fire Season in Southwest Oregon Was Lengthy, But Not Too Destructive KAJO The 2015 fire season in Southwest Oregon will be remembered for the smoke ? but little of the smoke was generated by wildfires in Josephine and ... A Look at Life in the Wildland Urban Interface USDA.gov (press release) (blog) A house threatened by a forest fire in central Oregon. ... that more than 50 percent of the Forest Service budget is spent fighting wildfires, and that is in ... Oregon CAFOs can now operate under state water permits East Oregonian (subscription) As of Oct. 21, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has made available ?water pollution control facilities? permits to livestock operations that don't ... Oregon's urban trees as important as rural forests Statesman Journal The forests of Oregon are among the most productive in the world, and are among Oregon's most valuable resources. They touch the lives of rural and ... Forecasters see another warm winter ahead Pamplin Media Group That snowpack typically provides much of the region's bank of water, and that ... Oregon continues to be classified as in severe or extreme drought ... My View: Do Superfund cleanup right Portland Tribune In the coming months (early 2016), the EPA will issue a Draft Cleanup Plan that will define their proposed approach, from dredging to covering the ... How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult Vox In the Atlantic, Julie Beck has a great new piece on "How Friendships Change in Adulthood." It will ring true for Vox readers of, uh, a certain age ... Who Needs a Golf Course? New Housing Developments Feature Farms KQED Now, developments are making room for farms. Agricultural neighborhoods ? or agri-hoods ? are neighborhoods with urban farms. They are being ... Buffalo's Green Code Sacrifices Quality of Life for the Sake of Economic Development Artvoice Instead, it is but one more tool to further ?economic development,? by ... The Mayor's propaganda machine promised a new land use code that would ... Creating a New Green Space Model for Tomorrow's Cities Smart Growth Network ?When you think of urban planning and design, the U.S. Forest Service likely isn't the first federal agency that comes to mind. But with upwards of 70 ... So how, exactly, do officials figure out how many people will use mass transit projects? MinnPost All of that modeling information, as well as cost estimates, local matching funds, the project's impact on land use, economic development, and ... 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