From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri May 6 17:00:57 2016 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 00:00:57 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for May 6, 2016 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02AE550A8@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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In forest spraying regulation, people come last The Register-Guard After years of contacting agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Oregon Department of Forestry about forestry-related ... ANOTHER VOICE: Passing countywide ordinance 'is wrong' Hood River News That's Oregon's strong water rights laws. Water rights determine not only who may use the water, but the purpose of the use, the period of use, and the ... Engineering firm designing fix for ailing Malheur Siphon Capital Press ONTARIO, Ore. - Part of the 80-year-old Malheur Siphon, which carries irrigation water to thousands of acres in Malheur County, is starting to fail. Bentgrass now a high priority Ontario Argus Observer Malheur County Court added genetically engineered creeping bentgrass to the ... has a contract sprayer in Malheur County working to control the grass. ... The Oregon Department of Agriculture has put out a notice that the grass will ... Oregon farmers dissolve Depression-era co-op OregonLive.com Oregon farmers dissolve Depression-era co-op ... In 2012 the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended PGG's warehouse license for 44 days, citing ... Oregon and Washington faults added to PNSN earthquake map Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Earthquakes happen on big cracks in the ground called faults. There are all kinds of faults. The biggest faults in the world are those on the edges of ... Schr?dinger's housing crisis Psuvanguard.com The housing crisis is also changing the atmosphere of Portland. ... While Oregon state law mandated much of what the city can do, the city is not ... Judge rejects feds' Columbia River salmon plan, calls for a rewrite OregonLive.com Kelly House | The Oregonian/OregonLive ... the federal agency in 1992 issued a "biological opinion" declaring that the dams would not imperil salmon ... Portland goes big on affordable housing Portland Tribune Responding to the housing crisis that is forcing many lower-income .... with 127 affordable units on PHB-owned property in the Oregon Convention ... More HUD funds for Central Oregon homeless prevention Bend Bulletin Although Central Oregon received significantly less in the first round ... the Rural Oregon Continuum of Care, which encompasses 27 counties. C.O. advocates pleased by federal aid targeting homelessness KTVZ The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released the list of Continuum of Care awards which included Central Oregon Homeless ... Oregon town considers seizing abandoned foreclosures to fight blight HousingWire McConnell says under the 1989 law, the city could take receivership action against substandard housing that plagues certain areas of Medford. Gov. Kate Brown quietly convenes heavy-hitting group to talk roads Bend Bulletin Bentz is among the foremost lawmakers on transportation in Salem. ... Brown is convening the meeting in Portland at Business Oregon, the state's ... Uber and Green Cab, former adversaries, announce partnership OregonLive.com A Green Cab driver joins other taxicab drivers for a rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square. The Transportation Fairness Alliance, a group of cab ... Lane of Naito Parkway could be permanently turned over to pedestrians, cyclists OregonLive.com It debuted during the 2015 Rose Festival City Fair and returned for the Oregon Brewers Festival, when the right northbound traffic lane was blocked off ... The downfall of big dams has started and it's beautiful Fusion The river that was fabled for its millions of salmon each season saw .... in a number of dam removals in recent years in Oregon's Rogue River Basin, ... The death of a unique Oregon lake (OPINION) OregonLive.com Until recently, Lake Abert, Oregon's only saltwater lake, supplied habitat for some ... Unlike the diverters, the lake itself has no recognized water rights. Talk in Manzanita to focus on impacts of marine reserves on communities, ocean users, economy Tillamook County Pioneer Oregon has designated five marine reserve sites, located at Cascade Head (near Lincoln City), Otter Rock (near Newport), Cape Perpetua (near ... Meet the New 'Lean Code Tool' Planetizen Susan Henderson investigates Lean Urbanism strategies for incremental code reform to improve walkability and reduce financial and regulatory ... 6 Trends in Online Community Engagement: the Good and the Bad Planetizen With the constellation of civic technologies, like online community engagement platforms, growing quickly, it's important to recognize the positive and ... How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at cities The Guardian When I first encountered this doyenne of urban activism, she offered one of the sharpest critiques I'd ever heard. Jane Jacobs was relentless, and ... CH2M to Lead Colorado Road Usage Charge Pilot Research Study PR Newswire (press release) ... all aspects of the Oregon Department of Transportation's RUC Pilot Program as well as the deployment planning for the statewide program, OReGO. Hamlet expansion proposed in Crown Point Sun Community News Harrington said there is little or no regulation by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) in a designated hamlet area. Hamlets are considered the growth ... Story of cities #35: Arcosanti - the unfinished answer to suburban sprawl The Guardian Four decades on, Paolo Soleri's revolutionary Arizona desert vision of super-dense living remains a work in progress. Oliver Wainwright meets the ... Story of cities #36: how Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist utopia The Guardian While concrete was being poured across Europe's cities, Denmark's capital found itself at a crossroads: would it follow the car-centric vision of grand ... Story of cities #37: how radical ideas turned Curitiba into Brazil's 'green capital' The Guardian As an architect and mayor, Jaime Lerner led the movement that transformed Curitiba into an environmentally friendly 'laboratory for urban planning'. 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: