From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Jan 15 16:05:39 2016 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:05:39 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for January 15, 2015 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02ADCF930@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. ________________________________ Woodburn UGB proposal approved by state Portland Tribune ... $1 million or more in public funds and staff time expended, the city of Woodburn's urban growth boundary (UGB) saga is finally coming to a close. Months before Malheur occupation, another Oregon land dispute galvanized militants OregonLive.com Oath Keepers and other militants rallied to support miners on a claim near Galice that the Bureau of Land Management wanted to bring into ... Oregon standoff: Answers to questions about federal land ownership and management (OPINION) OregonLive.com The federal Constitution's property clause (Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2) equips Congress with authority to establish "all needful rules and ... PUBLIC LANDS: Belying militants' claims, Ore. ranchers and feds get along Environment & Energy Publishing In southeast Oregon, many ranchers also worry President Obama will .... Eastern Oregon has also disproportionately benefited from sage grouse ... How Refuge Occupation Could Fuel Land Privatization Movement OPB News 9, 2016, in Crane, Oregon. .... In April 2015, the Oregon House Committee on Rural Communities, Land Use, and Water heard testimony on Wilson's ... While the rest of Oregon grew, Harney County flat-lined Capital Press Southeast Oregon's Harney County, the scene of the militia takeover that ... The decline of Pacific Northwest timber industry is an old story, but rural ... Timber Oligarchs Transform Into Beef Barons in Harney County and the Oregon High Desert CounterPunch Larry and Marianne Williams control Treetop Ranches, and their cattle herds impact a vast area of crucial sage-grouse habitat across eastern Oregon ... Oregon Dam Operations Causing Frog Take, Group Says Bloomberg BNA ... WaterWatch of Oregon alleged that the bureau's dam operations are ???altering natural flows in the Upper Deschutes Basin (including Crescent ... Take Two! Frogs, Water, and the Endangered Species Act in Oregon Lexology (registration) In late December we reported on a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity (?Center?) that alleges the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (?BOR?) is ... Panel reviews regional water issues Portland Tribune Kevin Hanway, Hillsboro's water director, said the region has reduced ... According to projections by Metro, the regional planning agency, Portland's ... one,? the potential of a subduction-zone earthquake off Oregon's coast that would ... Environmentalists and Power Companies Reached an Important?and Surprising?Agreement The Portland Mercury The companies are far and away Oregon's largest power suppliers, ... up renewable energy use, and taking some power plants offline for Oregon ... See the changes lawmakers are considering for Oregon marijuana laws Statesman Journal State lawmakers met Wednesday afternoon to consider "legislative concepts" that would change Oregon's marijuana laws. At the meeting ... Affordable housing: Builders weigh lifting opposition to 17-year-old zoning ban OregonLive.com Even the architect of Oregon's 1999 ban, lobbyist Jon Chandler of the Oregon Home Builders Association, told lawmakers he was willing to reconsider ... My View: Tap land trusts to create affordable housing Portland Tribune Three years later, Oregon cities are grappling with affordable housing crises. Yet the options available to address the problem appear to be limited in ... Portland forecast to have 10th hottest housing market Portland Tribune The research arm of a national real estate firm is predicting Portland will have the 10th hottest housing market in the U.S. in 2016. Portland home ... Letter: Recreational pot doesn?t need to be grown in Deschutes County Bend Bulletin Now defined as a ?crop,? marijuana enjoys protections from Oregon's Right to Farm law and therefore can be grown in exclusive farm use zones. Don't neglect Eugene drivers' needs The Register-Guard Our leaders' transportation planning focus seems to be on everyone but the silent majority of drivers who don't have the option of using alternate ... Oregon DOT Plays its Trump Card to Remove Portland Bike Lanes Planetizen A bike advocate tells the story of the how the state department of transportation convinced local officials to remove a popular bike lane in Portland. Declining funding means Reedsport city hall closed for now at lunchtime Coos Bay World The passage of Measure 5 fundamentally changed how government collects ... in taxes to the limits is called 'compression,'" according to the Oregon ... Measure 47 would have "rolled back property taxes (not assessed values) to 90 ... A Pacific Northwest Earthquake Could Cause Thousands of Landslides Newsweek A Pacific Northwest Earthquake Could Cause Thousands of Landslides ... The earthquake that struck Nepal last year, killing thousands, could prove less ... one of the authors of the report and an assistant professor at Oregon State ... New Book 'Earthquake Time Bombs' Serves As Wake-up Call for Earthquake-prone Cities Around ... GISuser.com (press release) But Bob Yeats, a retired emeritus professor of geology at Oregon State ... In his new book, Earthquake Time Bombs, now available in hardcover from ... In Print: Zoning Rules! The Economics of Land Use Regulation Urban Land He dissects both Portland, Oregon's urban growth boundary and Houston's steadfast refusal to adopt zoning, as well as more traditional regulatory ... Study: Sharrows Don't Make Streets Safer for Cycling Streetsblog New York (blog) Sharrows are the dregs of bike infrastructure ? the scraps cities hand out when they can't muster the will to implement exclusive space for bicycling. Study Finds Strong Evidence that Parking Causes Driving Planetizen A new study presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting builds a strong case that parking causes driving. Eric Jaffe reports on ... Urban Agriculture? Only 1 Percent Of Seattle Residents Could Eat Locally Even With All Viable ... Science 2.0 Farm to fork, locally grown and all of the other progressive terms for agriculture self-identification leave out one important fact: People would starve. When Rail Transit Reshapes the Metropolitan Divides Smart Growth Network A new research paper by Brian McKenzie of the U.S. Census Bureau helps us understand all of the demographic and socioeconomic changes rail ... Far-Fetched Plan for Mass Transit Is Intriguing at Least WIRED More than 100 inches of snow crippled the city's public transportation systems. ... Bostonians may boast that their public transit system is the oldest in the ... Oregon's Max line and New York City's subway?will be sticking around for a ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: