From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Dec 18 15:29:40 2015 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 23:29:40 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for December 18, 2015 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF01C69E19F@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. ________________________________ The Latest: Heavy rainfall shatters record in Portland The Seattle Times Storms in the Pacific Northwest have unleashed a damaging landslide north of Newport, Oregon, forced evacuations and opened up a sinkhole ... Major Northwest Storm Dumps Four Feet of Snow on Oregon's Mountains SYS-CON Media (press release) 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A major winter storm has delivered a pre-holiday gift to the mountains of Oregon. Long known for their deep snowpack and ... Newport landslide leaves 'catastrophic damages' KOIN.com NEWPORT, Ore. (KOIN) - Emergency evacuations were made Thursday night after an apparent landslide and sinkhole caused "catastrophic ... Florence woman dies when landslide hits home on the Oregon Coast OregonLive.com Fresh storms barreled through the already sodden Pacific Northwest, triggering a landslide that killed a woman and destroyed her home near ... Cities prep for more flooding as rain continues KOIN.com A sinkhole in Rainier is affecting the back of a business, and co-owner Jewel Forrest told KOIN 6 News ... A ship at the Port of Newport, Dec Be alert for landslides, debris flows St. Helens Chronicle "Many landslides have occurred during the past week in areas across the state," says Bill Burns, DOGAMI engineering geologist. "With another round ... Highways 22 and 131 could reopen before Christmas Eve Tillamook County Pioneer Contractors and crews working for the Oregon Department of ... Oregon Highway 131 at Happy Camp Road in Tillamook County: The road has been ... Map outlines western Oregon landslide risks from a subduction zone ... KMTR NewsSource 16 CORVALLIS, Ore. - New landslide maps have been developed that will help the Oregon Department of Transportation determine which coastal ... Badger Flats project wins support Herald and News Klamath County commissioners unanimously voted Tuesday night to overturn a planning board decision to keep the proposed Badger Flats Lifestyle ... Tourists will help pay for affordable housing Portland Tribune The Portland Housing Bureau hopes to leverage the new revenue stream to sell a ... in the room," said John Miller, director of the Oregon Opportunity Network. ... The Housing Bureau received $6.1 million in general fund money in ... The costs of homelessness The Register-Guard The "Housing First" model popularized by Salt Lake City has captured the ... On Wednesday the Oregon Health Authority announced it will award a ... Oregon Coast Community Action accepting donations for homeless KCBY.com 11 "The homeless issue is dramatically hitting rural Oregon," says ORCCA executive director Mike Lehman. Lehman, the director of Oregon Coast ... Long Road to Relief The Source Weekly City Council recently took another step toward addressing Bend's affordable housing crisis when it approved the sale of City land to a local affordable ... As East Portland residents face more evictions, community fighting back Portland Tribune "They cannot find them housing even in Gresham any more." As the ... It's currently banned for local governments in just two states, Texas and Oregon. Congress gives Land and Water Conservation Fund three more years East Oregonian (subscription) Since it was established in 1965, the Land and Water Conservation Fund has invested nearly $1 billion into Oregon and Washington and impacted ... Port of Astoria eyes land at South Tongue Point Daily Astorian ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - The Port of Astoria has expressed interest in buying some or all of the undeveloped land on Oregon's South Tongue Point. What's good for business is good for Oregon Portland Tribune Right now, Oregon is on a better path than it was five years ago. ... transit and other forms of transportation have been priorities in past Oregon ... A price on carbon could be Oregon's new 'Bottle Bill' Portland Business Journal (blog) We take pride in trying things first, and we often get them right: land-use planning, Death with Dignity and the Bottle Bill, to name three Oregon-grown ... What Oregon can do to combat climate change (OPINION) OregonLive.com What Oregon can do to combat climate change (OPINION) ... and rural parts of the state, creates good-paying jobs for Oregon workers, and innovation ... All of a sudden, Oregon's renewable energy future looks very bright Portland Business Journal (blog) Companies can choose to use 100 percent renewable energy or less, but according to Stan Sittser, PGE spokesperson, "most like to go 100 percent ... Warm Springs tribes vote on growing, selling marijuana OregonLive.com Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs will vote Thursday on a proposal to grow and process marijuana on the reservation and sell the ... Decision on marijuana regulations expected Monday Bend Bulletin The Oregon Farm Bureau wrote to county commissioners last week about proposed measures for limiting the smell of marijuana at farm sites and ... Lawmakers want talks to begin for 2017 transportation bill Portland Tribune Oregon lawmakers said on Monday that they need to begin negotiations now, if they are going to pass legislation to fund transportation in 2017. 'Vision Zero' Conflicts With Local Politics Planetizen Community leaders sometimes present the biggest obstacles when and where the rubber hits the road on Vision Zero traffic safety improvements. 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: