From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri May 20 09:57:23 2016 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 16:57:23 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for May 20, 2016 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02AE6E703@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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Casa of Oregon helps residents form cooperatives to buy mobile home ... County donates tax foreclosures to Redmond Habtiat for Humanity Bend Bulletin "I think it's no secret that we have a housing crisis in Central Oregon in general," Commissioner Tammy Baney said Wednesday at a business meeting. Drawing The Line: Preventing Urban Sprawl In Portland WBUR In the 1970s, the cities in Oregon, including Portland, took a dramatic step ... In Portland, an urban growth boundary was established around the city, ... Density fight gets personal at City Hall Portland Tribune Last week Novick voted against an amendment to the proposed Comprehensive Plan update that would have zoned the Eastmoreland Neighborhood ... Eastmoreland 'downzoning' dumped: Editorial Peak OregonLive.com No special treatment: Portland City Council provided a second "peak" this week, and it, too, was at the expense of an ill-considered proposal by ... Can Portland Avoid Repeating San Francisco's Mistakes? The Atlantic Oregon has been the top destination for people to move to for three years in a ... In October, the Portland City Council declared a housing emergency, ... The Atlantic Says Portland's Gentrification Is Your Fault Willamette Week There's no rent control in Oregon, and efforts to pass just-cause eviction laws have, thus far, been futile. The city has embarked on big urban-renewal ... My View: Put a Bern on housing affordability Portland Tribune By taking the land under housing off the private, commodity, speculative market, it helps to change the concept of housing from a commodity to be ... Market-rate housing get tax breaks through state program Coos Bay World The Oregon Housing and Community Services department has ... address the affordable housing crisis is to increase supply and alleviate the housing ... State offers up to $750 rebate for organic certification costs Capital Press With demand for organic products continuing to accelerate, the Oregon Department of Agriculture is stepping in to help growers, processors and ... California farmers look north to Oregon for salvation The Globe and Mail (subscription) Over the past couple of years, farmers in central Oregon have noticed a ... around - a growing number of big California nut growers, looking When climate change causes Californians to migrate north to Oregon and Washington. Pacific Standard With drought intensifying in California, Slade envisioned a new Dust Bowl ... Would the Oregon state line become like the U.S.-Mexico border? Bus service to Multnomah Falls begins May 27 Hood River News ... Economic Development District, Travel Oregon, Travel Portland, Friends of the Columbia Gorge and Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation. Portland voters approve 4-year gas tax, highest in state (election results) OregonLive.com Portland Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick, who's running for ... The No to gas tax, say Sandy voters Portland Tribune The Oregon Department of Transportation estimates an average of 40,000 vehicles travel through Sandy each day. On weekends and during the peak ... Anti-Nestle ballot measure: Bid to block Cascade Locks water plant succeeds (election results) OregonLive.com Kelly House | The Oregonian/OregonLive ... The company hopes to build a $50 million bottling plant at the town's port, where 100 million ... Nestle's proposal to trade water for jobs and, eventually, property taxes (the city expects to ... Nestle loses Cascade Locks water bottling measure Portland Tribune Nestle's plans would require the city of Cascade Locks to exchange water rights with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. The exchange would ... More than 100 volunteers pulled more than two tons of garbage from estuary during Tillamook Bay ... Tillamook County Pioneer The Tillamook County Creamery Association (Tillamook Cheese) organized a team of 40 people to take on the Bayocean Spit. Gary Albright of the ... The state with the best economy is voting today Marketplace.org Former President Bill Clinton speaks at Central Oregon Community College in ... "In the rural areas it's also a land issue but there's a different tone. Portland shows off transportation technology in bid for $50 million grant OregonLive.com Portland transportation officials are imagining a future where vehicles talk to municipal infrastructure, which in turn talks back. That might seem a ... A More Livable Bend The Source Weekly With this in mind, in what way the city grows is both a subject of deep ... Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (which manages public transit in ... Regional economy keeps humming along Bend Bulletin Editor's note: The Bulletin has partnered with the University of Oregon's ... "Housing activity is not off the charts," Duy said Wednesday, but "if we hadn't ... County approves rural enterprise zone for parts of Sunriver Bend Bulletin Rural enterprise zones are administered through Business Oregon, the state's economic development agency. It allows for businesses to temporarily ... Federal officials designate habitat for threatened Oregon spotted frog Mail Tribune Of the critical habitat acreage, 48 acres are owned by the Bureau of Land Management and 13 acres are on private lands within monument ... Researchers attempting to understand spotted wing drosophila Capital Press It was found in Oregon and Washington the following year. ... said Bruce Pokarney, communications director for the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Editorial: Congress needs to help O&C counties Bend Bulletin The Bureau of Land Management says its new plan to manage forests in mostly Western Oregon will create a sustainable yield of timber, help wildlife ... Oregon's Owyhee deserves greater protection (OPINION) OregonLive.com I am a third generation Malheur County resident, raised with a view of the Owyhee Canyonlands from my bedroom window. And I'm hoping to explain ... Legislation offers hope dealing with climate change Herald and News Even though southern Oregon experienced a good snowpack for the recent 2015-16 winter, the average annual snowpack has declined for decades ... State transportation panel releases report Bend Bulletin A state advisory panel released a final report Tuesday on Oregon's transportation system and recommended priorities over the next few decades, ... Vertical housing subsidy doesn't focus on affordability, and that's OK: Editorial OregonLive.com "To get mass transit to work," he told The Oregonian/OregonLive editorial board this week, "you have to have mass." Some of the projects have ... Local schools to receive portion of $50 million seismic safety upgrade bond KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2 0518 earthquake bond Salem, Ore. - Local schools will be getting a cut of a $50 million bond sale that will finance seismic safety upgrades at Oregon ... Is the future of community solar bright? Here's one Oregon take Portland Business Journal (blog) Seguin, state director since 2014, is also on the board of directors for the Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association, and on the Energy Trust of.... Eco activists protest BLM's plans to cut down forests in Oregon, cry climate change risks RT Eco activists have gone to court to challenge the US Bureau of Land Management's plans to increase wood harvesting in Oregon by 37 percent, ... County joins lawsuit against BLM timber plan St. Helens Chronicle For decades the counties received half of timber revenues from the O&C lands and used it to fund essential services like sheriffs and road departments ... NOAA: Dungeness crab in peril from acidification The Seattle Times ... of the 2014 Dungeness crab catch in Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington was $211.5 million, according to data provided by NOAA fisheries. Ready to rumble? Oregon Coast Today ... University of Oregon researchers this Friday, May 20, for a presentation exploring the risks posed by a major earthquake just off the Oregon Coast. Are You Prepared For Disaster? Polkio.com #MVECC includes representatives from Polk County, the city of Salem, Marion County, Western Oregon University, SEDCOR, The Red Cross, Salem ... Map shows Portland buildings that could be at risk during earthquake OregonLive.com Map shows Portland buildings that could be at risk during earthquake ... map shows which buildings were built prior to 1974, when Oregon adopted a ... Sanders talks earthquake preparedness, minimum wage ahead of Oregon primary Daily Astorian Bernie Sanders said that, when it comes to an earthquake that could devastate the Pacific Northwest, the role of the federal government is to track the ... Residents in Oregon admit they're not ready for wildfire season PR Newswire (press release) Last year, Oregon saw 2,588 fires that spanned 685,809 acres and, despite this winter's precipitation, the U.S. Drought Monitor says southeast areas ... Matt Driscoll: Balancing urban and suburban needs at center of Pierce Transit's future The News Tribune (blog) That's because Pierce Transit plans to restore 59,000 service hours lost to the Great Recession by the end of next year, and the agency is showing a ... After Fort McMurray: where are the world's most fire-prone cities? The Guardian Images of the devastated Canadian city show just how destructive fire can be to urban populations. But the risk is greatest in informal settlements, ... Hawaii Is At Risk Of Devastating Tsunami: Is The State Prepared? Tech Times In 2011, a colossal tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake ... Paleo-seismologist Chris Goldfinger of Oregon State University, who had ... World Bank Report: Climate Change Puts 1.3 Billion People at Risk Planetizen "The global community is badly prepared for a rapid increase in climate change-related natural disasters that by 2050 will put 1.3 billion people at risk ... A move to the country will hit your wallet The Guardian He found that in 2008-09, net take-home pay for those living in rural areas was about ?900 a year less than for those living in towns and cities. Flint a City's Autopsy Guardian Liberty Voice First, it is important to understand the story of the city and its economic downfall, which created the eyesore tragedy recognized today as Flint. Story of cities #42: Medell?n escapes grip of drug lord to embrace radical urbanism The Guardian Twenty-five years ago, Medell?n was the most dangerous city on earth. Yet its most infamous criminal, Pablo Escobar, also helped create the ... Story of cities #43: how Dubai's World Trade Centre sold the city to the world The Guardian There is a story told about Dubai's World Trade Centre. It is about a businessman who came to the city in the early 1970s. He entered the court of ... Story of cities #44: will Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, really close? The Guardian Twenty-five years after it opened, Kenya has announced its third biggest 'city', the Dadaab refugee complex, is to be shut down. But for many residents ... Story of cities #45: the death of Richard Nickel, guardian of Chicago's heritage The Guardian Photographer and activist Richard Nickel spent much of his life battling to preserve Chicago's diverse architecture. His death, while trying to save ... Put pedestrians first to tackle air pollution in this dirty mega-city The Guardian 'By putting walking first we can reduce congestion and pollution and keep people safe,' writes Sarah Williams. Photograph: UK Stock Images Ltd/ ... Can building design make you healthy? The San Diego Union-Tribune Outgoing local ULI executive director Mary Lydon said the awards program revived an annual event that honored smart growth projects until 2010. Miami's Form Based Code Touted as New Urbanist Ideal Planetizen Miami 21 overhauled an 80-year old zoning code and replaced it with a New Urbanist-style form-based code that many credit as being the key to ... City Moving Forward Without State on Two-Tower, 304-Unit Mixed-Income Residential Project at ... New York YIMBY In March, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) withheld approval for the two-tower, mixed-income residential project at Pier 6 in Brooklyn ... Drowned worlds: Egypt's lost cities The Guardian Near the tiny farming villages of Rashwan and Abu Mishfa in the Nile Delta - the kind of villages where you might see a girl tugging on the harness of ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: