From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Jul 22 12:09:31 2016 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 19:09:31 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for July 22, 2016 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02AEBD86A@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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The regional government administers the urban growth boundary, which ... Metro projects big population growth in suburban counties Portland Tribune By now, nearly everyone in Portland has heard the city's population will skyrocket over the next 20 years. The Comprehensive Plan update recently ... 'We need to have a grown-up conversation' Keizertimes Keizer's current tax rate was set in 1996, and locked in when Oregon voters approved Measure 50, which capped property tax assessments, in May ... A common sense approach to reforming development in Oregon flood plains (Opinion) OregonLive.com For years this program has subsidized irresponsible development that puts people, ... Politicians like DeFazio, who argue that Oregon's current land-use system is ... FEMA has identified 251 Oregon communities as flood-prone. Latest: EPA won't regulate logging road runoff High Country News State regulation of road runoff varies, so a 2003 Oregon lawsuit sought to require federal regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency Industry's forest health promise a hollow one The Register-Guard In the 1970s, living in a rural Oregon coastal community, I witnessed the rapid economic and environmental devaluation caused by industry's ... Crook County Leaders Unexpectedly Table Natural Resource Plan OPB News The debate over the plan is the latest among rural Oregon communities that are increasingly frustrated with what they see as federal overreach. Wild Owyhees: How much wildland is enough? Statesman Journal Roughly half of the region's grazing land is within the proposed boundaries of ... why is fast-tracking a national monument in Oregon the best solution? Amateur Radio Plays Key Role In Major FEMA Earthquake Disaster Exercise: eHam.net Amateur Radio Plays Key Role In Major FEMA Earthquake Disaster Exercise: ... The coast will be literally wiped off the map by a 100' tsunami. ... Central Washington and central Oregon east of the Cascades will suffer disruptive ... Bend Council Approves Sale Of Properties For Affordable Housing OPB News Until recently Bend was the only Oregon city with an affordable housing fee on the books, because the city policy was grandfathered in before the state ... Prineville to convert school into housing Bend Bulletin The commission unanimously voted to give Housing Works, Central Oregon's housing authority, permission to move forward with the project, which it ... Letters: Use of the word 'affordable' is all relative Portland Tribune Your article on the proposed bond measure to facilitate more affordable housing is interesting for many reasons (July 5). What I find most remarkable ... Skateboarders: The Shock Troops of Gentrification JSTOR Daily Ocean Howell, a professor of architectural history at the University of Oregon, describes skateboarders as "the shock troops of gentrification." As an ... Cyclists stage 'die-in' on ODOT steps in Salem Statesman Journal They purposely scheduled the die-in about a week before the Oregon Transportation Commission was scheduled to meet at ODOT. Several group ... Oregon leans toward putting off high-speed rail plans Corvallis Gazette Times The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/29OGlly ) that the Oregon Department of Transportation is planning to keep the passenger rail line in its current ... Too Many Tourists? The Source Weekly (press release) (registration) (blog) Spokespeople for Visit Bend, Central Oregon Visitors Association and Travel Oregon, the three main organizations that promote Bend and Central ... Americans Will Pay More to Live Near Transit Smart Growth Online Fifty-five percent of Americans say they are willing to pay more for their mortgage or rent in order to get to work and recreational activities without ... Africa's real land grab The Economist Urban farmers often bring new ideas and technology to the places where they settle. Raphael Laizer, a government official who moved into farming, ... Creating 21st Century Communities: Making the Economic Case for Place Smart Growth Online The Michigan Municipal League (MML) identified eight assets that communities need to grow and strengthen to prosper in coming years. MML hired ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: