From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Oct 7 17:07:52 2016 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 00:07:52 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for October 7, 2016 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02AF0E614@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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Oregon to transform lakes into batteries to charge electricity grid PBS NewsHour Solar and wind are poised to become a larger part of that green-power mix. ... One way to solve this problem is to store the excess energy and then ... Oregon dips in energy efficiency ranking, but still a top-10 performer Portland Business Journal (blog) The annual report rates states in a wide range of categories, and one of Oregon's best scores came in transportation policies (8 out of 10 points). Tsunami threatens senior facilities on Oregon Coast kgw.com An earthquake near the Oregon Coast or further offshore could trigger a massive tsunami that threatens the entire Oregon coastline. When the tsunami ... HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BUILDS BIG IN PORTLAND Portland Tribune PORTLAND TRIBUNE: LYNDSEY HEWITT - Habitat for Humanity ... Habitat For Humanity Portland/Metro East has been picking up land at a discount .... Division Street, considered the largest Habitat for Humanity build in Oregon ... Transportation central at CHIP Lake County Examiner Dan Schwanz of Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc. (GOBHI) took time first to talk about Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT). How Washington can relieve affordable-housing crisis: Washington Post opinion OregonLive.com In a sign that market solutions for the United States' growing housing affordability crisis are beginning to earn bipartisan support, the White House this ... In Portland, yes on affordable housing and a pot tax: Editorial Endorsements 2016 OregonLive.com The nonprofit PHC Northwest's new Fern Grove housing complex on Burnside Street in East Portland, seen in May of this year before its scheduled ... Housing growth? Not in my backyard Portland Tribune PORTLAND TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO - Housing advocates say city may block plans to turn a vacant Housing advocates are concerned that as Portland ... Celebrating an expanded shelter for St. Johns Portland Tribune Along the way, the organization and foundation also helped persuade Housing Commissioner Dan Saltzman to ask the City Council to expand an ... Oregon Governor's Advisor Tapped To Lead Environmental Agency - For Now OPB News The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission voted unanimously ... Whitman formerly directed the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and ... Feds consider mining ban on 10 million acres to protect sage grouse OregonLive.com Male sage grouse perform mating rituals for a female grouse, not pictured, on a lake outside Walden, Colorado. Scientists have completed an ... Conservation Groups Sue Oregon Agency Over Threatened Seabird Jefferson Public Radio Four conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Board of Forestry. They say the agency isn't doing enough to protect a threatened ... E. Oregon dairy would create 187M gallons of waste a year kgw.com More than 2,300 comments have already poured in to the Oregon Department of Agriculture and Department of Environmental Quality on the Lost ... Oregon's Alpenfest sees record attendance in 2016 Wallowa County Cheiftain Based on studies from Travel Oregon, Oregon's Alpenfest generates a $150,000 boost to the county economy late in the tourist season, when there ... Are Growing Regions the Next Defining Factor for the Oregon Cannabis Industry? Willamette Week There's reason to suspect the next step for Oregon cannabis is to highlight the farms, as we've seen with cheese, wine, hops and berries. Skyprize ... Bend Council Candidates Debate Growth, Infrastructure And Affordable Housing OPB News by Amanda Peacher Follow OPB | Oct. 4, 2016 6:30 a.m. | Bend, Oregon ... of the urban growth boundary than the 2,000-acre expansion currently on the table. Others suggested the city should try to limit growth and tourism. Blame it on the bike: does cycling contribute to a city's gentrification? The Guardian Consequently, local hostility to cycling infrastructure has often been a proxy for wider anger at gentrification. In Portland, Oregon in 2011, a proposed ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: