From sadie.carney at state.or.us Mon Mar 14 10:32:27 2016 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:32:27 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for March 11, 2016 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02AE212B2@DLCDSXCH05.dlcd.state.or.us> Welcome to last week?s roundup of the Land Use News! Double Issue! 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. ________________________________ Boardman biorefinery gets $11 million USDA backing East Oregonian (subscription) Novus Energy has received an $11 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's biorefinery assistance program. Oregon Sen. Burning Issues Northwest Boomer and Senior News ?Field burning was a huge issue back then. We had doctors testify, and Bill Bowerman and Steve Prefontaine (Oregon's celebrated track coach and ... Money Trees: Does Oregon owe counties for timber lands held in trust? KVAL Some 640,000 acres of Oregon timber land passed into county ownership through foreclosures back in the 1930s. The counties couldn't afford to ... Pot is power hungry: America's $3.5 billion weed industry is an energy hog Raw Story According to a report by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council in Oregon ? where recreational marijuana has been legal since 2014 ? an ... Oregon Legislature allows existing medical marijuana grows Mail Tribune Rapidly changing marijuana legislation in the Oregon Legislature has been keeping local officials, growers and neighbors off balance as state ... Beyond minimum wage and coal: 25 Oregon bills passed by the 2016 Legislature OregonLive.com It gives Oregon the highest rates in the nation: $14.75 inside Portland's urban growth boundary, $13.50 in midsize counties and $12.50 in rural ... Oregon's first in the nation anti-coal law: The pros and cons Christian Science Monitor Oregon aims to phase out the the reliance on coal fired plants by 2030. Gov. ... claiming that EPA regulations on coal would drive people into the cold. A New Design Guide for Affordable Housing Developments Planetizen New affordable housing is only one step toward creating livable communities?a quality mix of uses on the ground floor, designed to integrate with the ... Affordable-housing bill acknowledges Oregon's buildable land supply problem: Editorial OregonLive.com Still, it indicates a willingness by lawmakers to tinker with the land-use ... in Oregon and elsewhere, notes that traditional affordable-housing programs ... Housing crisis: Inclusionary zoning bill clears Senate, bucking years of failure OregonLive.com SALEM ? Democrats and Republicans in the Oregon Senate teamed up Friday to pass legislation that lifts a state ban on affordable housing ... Bend sends mixed signals on housing package in Salem Bend Bulletin The conservation group 1000 Friends of Oregon opposed the urban growth boundary expansion bill, it said, because it was a threat to the entire land ... A looming shortage The Register-Guard The one thing almost everyone seems to agree on is that Oregon is facing a shortage of affordable housing that isn't going to go away on its own, and ... Bailey announces comprehensive affordable housing plan Pamplin Media Group ?Our city is at a turning point. Portlanders love our city, but we're starting to feel that the city we love is beginning to slip through our fingers," says ... Oregon House OKs urban growth boundary pilot projects Capital Press Opponents of the bill, including the Oregon Farm Bureau and 1,000 Friends of Oregon, argued that it would short-circuit the UGB expansion process ... Stop blaming growth boundaries for housing costs (OPINION) OregonLive.com Common misconception #1: The urban growth boundary makes housing less affordable by constraining land supply. This claim has been addressed ... Want to make housing affordable? Ditch urban growth boundaries (OPINION) OregonLive.com A lot of terrible ideas are coming out of Oregon this year. Although Portland, Bend and other Oregon cities face housing affordability crises, most ... Middle class can't afford homes near jobs Portland Tribune The affordable housing crisis has quickly emerged as perhaps the No. ... Most of the efforts have focused on finding and funding more apartments people ... a 1 percent construction excise tax under consideration by the 2016 Oregon ... Tech Sector Makes Inroads in Portland Planetizen Portland may be joining the rest of the West Coast as a center for employment in software and tech. Residential and business costs are far lower, ... Port won't give up on rezone efforts Pamplin Media Group Following an appeal by Seely Family Farm, the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals remanded the comprehensive plan amendment to the county, ... Crook County residents form a PAC to make a land use plan Bend Bulletin Recently proposed plans from Oregon Wild and the U.S. Forest Service concerning land use and access don't take the county's best interests into ... Citizenship Exploited: Lessons from the Oregon Occupation Huffington Post The occupiers also asserted that the Constitution limits the federal ownership of land. (Most legal scholars agree this is absolutely incorrect.) They also ... Resolution of dispute in Oregon shows how democracy should work Alaska Dispatch News To recap: Ammon Bundy and a group of followers occupied the refuge located in Harney County, Oregon, to protest federal land management. Bundy's Lawyers Fire Back At Clatsop County DA OPB News An attorney for the militant who led the occupation at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon called Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis a ... Hemp crops get attention in county Ontario Argus Observer In emailed comments, Lindsey Eng with Oregon Department of Agriculture ... Noller said interest has been shown by growers in Malheur County and ... New Internet Hoax About Impending Oregon Coast Quake Goes Viral Oregon Coast Beach Connection The Oregon coast is due for a devastating quake and tsunami someday ... There is also no way to predict an earthquake, and she added the data ... Pelican Brewing expands with new bottling facility, Cannon Beach pub and brewery, mixed 12-packs Tillamook County Pioneer As with the Pacific City location and the Tillamook Tap Room, the Cannon ... at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds as part of the Clatsop County High Schools ... ?We outgrew the ability to meet demand in Tillamook,? said Prinzing. ... The Oregon Liquor Control Commission reports that Pelican leaped from ... Haggen auction will not include Klamath stores Herald and News This is because Klamath's stores are not tied up in the company's bankruptcy, according to Klamath Falls City Manager Nathan Cherpeski. Road to Restoration Herald and News Nic Phair, vice president of the Klamath Falls Downtown Association, Erik ... The tour was part of an exploration effort by Klamath Falls Downtown ... Fly-fishing guides enter the spotted frog case Bend Bulletin The issue is the Oregon spotted frog, since 2014 listed as a threatened ... Perin, in a court filing, wrote that low winter flows in the river kill thousands of ... Sage Grouse Concerns Trip Up Turbine Project Courthouse News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - Regulators approved a wind-turbine project in southeastern Oregon with no thought to the greater sage grouse, ... Seeds of agricultural tourism taking off in Wallowa County Wallowa County Cheiftain The meeting host, Northeast Oregon Agritourism Project, has been developing agritourism in the region for some time but it wasn't until recently that ... Small-Town America Is Facing Big-City Problems Next City Small-Town America Is Facing Big-City Problems. From Portland, Maine, to Traverse City, Michigan, many smaller U.S. cities are struggling with ... High parking rates translate into free stuff for residents Aspen Daily News The city of Aspen is planning to use increased parking revenue from this summer's ?dynamic pricing? experiment to help locals buy bus passes, bike ... Survey: Millennials eye the suburbs Minnesota Public Radio News (blog) ?This may be the most 'bright lights, big city' generation in history,? NPR declared, although, to be fair, it was pointing out the slow death of small-town America. ... The problem ? if you think it's aproblem ? is student debt and the fact ... the younger ones arefacing a different market than the older ones did. Why Now Is the Time to Remake Economic Development Next City Embracing a broader vision of economic development is an economic and fiscal imperative. Our nation's economic competitiveness and social ... Toward Inclusive Economic Development CityLab U.S. cities and metro regions have long made jobs and financial competitiveness the center of their economic development strategies?usually by ... NYU Study Defines Social Motivations of Urban Farms NYU News (press release) Two thirds of urban farmers have a social mission that goes beyond food production and profits, finds new research led by NYU Steinhardt School of ... City Slickers: Why Urban Centers Are Drawing 'Population Bookends' Smart Growth Network ?In a post-World War II United States, two achievements signaled someone's arrival at the doorstep of the American Dream: a house in the suburbs ... How a 19th-Century Town Became a New Millennium Marvel Smart Growth Network Once the world's textile leader, Manchester, New Hampshire, had to let go of the past before it could move forward. Today, the city is successfully ... Friday Funny: John Oliver Skewers Special Districts Planetizen Last Week Tonight with John Oliver tackles the corruption and mismanagement of special districts, which are well known to professional planners, but ... Unmanned Aircraft Systems?Coming to Your Planning Department Soon Planetizen Transformative technologies like unmanned aircraft systems (drones) are identifying and creating new applications in planning every day, for both ... 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