From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Dec 2 17:00:25 2016 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 01:00:25 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for December 2, 2016 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02AF4E20F@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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Willamette Week Elected officials, reporters and editors who ply their trade in the housing policy vineyards in Oregon should note that in progressive San Francisco, ... Don't get your hopes up about housing prices: Bloomberg View OregonLive.com Undersupply of housing: Housing starts were badly depressed by the Great Recession as rising standards both made it harder to finance new ... Developers race to beat Portland's inclusionary zoning policy OregonLive.com Portland's looming inclusionary zoning policy has set off a race to get apartment projects approved before the affordable housing requirement kicks in. Douglas County mobile home owners face unique housing crisis Coos Bay World They frequently don't accept older models, or they simply don't have any vacancies, said Mike Fieldman, a member of Oregon's Housing Stability ... A look at Oregon's record breaking crop years Oregon Natural Resources Report The Oregon Department of Agriculture released an analysis of Oregon's agricultural production from data gathered since the 1860s. The analysis ... Cost of Christmas trees headed up The Register-Guard SALEM - Christmas trees in Oregon may cost a bit more this year as the supply of holiday firs in the state has dropped. An oversupply of trees in 2015 ... New agriculture program goal: create leaders Ontario Argus Observer "Cultivating common ground between urban and rural communities," Buhrig said, is an overarching theme of Oregon's program and is a reason for the ... Oregon Board of Forestry Reverses Course, Will Develop Murrelet Protections Center for Biological Diversity (press release) The board is now coordinating with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and other state land owning agencies to identify and protect important ... Trump is the new hero in Timber Country Crosscut Loading logs onto the line at a mill in Glendale, Oregon. ... Here in Douglas County, where about half of the land is owned by the federal government, ... Interior's Common-Sense Approach to Renewable Energy Development RealClearEnergy While working for the Governor of Oregon, in 2007 the State adopted a target of 25% renewable energy by 2025. Soon after, the U.S. Department of ... Governor's budget allows Oregon's rooftop solar tax credit to die Portland Business Journal Extending the Residential Energy Tax Credit is a top priority of the Oregon solar industry in the upcoming legislative session, but it still hasn't made it ... Big solar in Oregon finds corporate buyer, signaling new competitiveness Portland Business Journal As we reported in our current cover story, the power from Avangrid's Gala Solar project, a 56-megawatt array under construction on the outskirts of ... Oregon greenlights 399-MW wind project by Caithness Energy SeeNews Renewables Wind farm in Oregon. ... December 1 (SeeNews) - The US state of Oregon has authorised a subsidiary of Caithness Energy to build the up to 399-MW ... Vision Zero plan goes to council Portland Tribune And non-injury accidents are reported first to the Oregon Department of Transportation, which does not share the information with the city until months ... This City in Oregon Will Be Mostly Destroyed in a Future Tsunami. But There's Some Good News. Route Fifty Such a disaster could involve a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake, which ... One study by Oregon's Department of Geology and Mineral Industries ... Report: West Coast politicians pushing for earthquake warning app MyNorthwest.com The money would go toward an earthquake warning system called ... at the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and UC-Berkeley. San Diego Housing Crisis Forges New 'YIMBY' Alliance KPBS San Diego's housing crisis can be measured in many different ways: rising rents and home prices, low vacancy rates or the soaring number of people ... Housing trends to watch in 2017 Walton Sun "The 2017 national real estate market is predicted to slow compared to the last two years across the majority of economic indicators," according to the ... US overhauls public land use planning; senator vows reversal Coos Bay World 1, 2016, finalized an overhaul of how they plan for oil and gas drilling, mining, grazing and other activities across public lands in the West. The move ... 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