From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Jun 30 21:43:34 2017 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 04:43:34 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for June 30, 2017 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02BE0E94D@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, agency announcements 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. Past Land Use News weekly e-mails may be found here: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/landuse-news Anyone may subscribe, unsubscribe, or change their subscription to the free service by visiting this site: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/landuse-news. ________________________________ Oregon governor, lawmakers come out with watered-down transportation tax-and-spending package The Register-Guard After weeks of grueling negotiations, Gov. Kate Brown and a handful of key state lawmakers have reached a tentative deal on a new, smaller transportation spending package. Other elements - such as a statewide employee-paid payroll tax to fund mass transit, a $15 tax on certain bike purchases, and tiered vehicle registration and title fees - remain intact. Environmentalists Rejoice: Court Says Land Regulation Doesn't Go 'Too Far' NPR In a major property rights decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a decisive victory to state and local governments and environmental groups. The justices made it much harder for property owners to get compensation from the government when zoning regulations restrict the use of just part of the landowners' property. Opposition continues despite changes to rural Oregon land use bill Portland Tribune CAPITAL BUREAU - Senate Bill 432, a bill to relax Oregon's land use restrictions in SALEM - Supporters of a bill to relax Oregon's land use restrictions in slow-growing counties were unable to overcome objections to the proposal despite several revisions. Deschutes County tackles state land use ruling Bend Bulletin Faced with a state land use decision that changed how Oregon counties determine legal lots, Deschutes County staff and official are closing in on a series of workarounds to save landowners time, money and aggravation. "We're just extremely busy," said Planning Manager Peter Gutowsky. Affordable housing bill was hijacked (Guest opinion) OregonLive.com HB 2007 violates Oregon land use goals. Goal 1 requires citizen participation in land use, butHB 2007 would strip citizen oversight and involvement on zoning and design decisions. Goal 2 requires that actions be consistent with Oregon's city and county comprehensive plans but HB 2007 would invalidate those hard-worked plans. Oregon Takes On Soaring Home Prices The American Interest One major and often neglected cause of the widening schism between elites and the public in America is housing policy. Upper-middle class communities across the country, especially in coastal metropolitan areas, have made it harder for new people to move in by slapping on new layers of land use regulation and requiring endless permitting procedures for new development. Warrenton joins fight against flood plain policies Daily Astorian Warrenton has joined a coalition challenging a federal biological opinion and newly proposed flood plain rules that some fear would hinder development. "These proposed rules would undo decades of urban growth management and natural resource protection," Jon Chandler, CEO of the Oregon Home Builders Association and president of Oregonians for Floodplain Protection, said in a release announcing the lawsuit. Oregon Coast Eclipse Traffic Could Be a 'Cosmic Traffic Jam' Oregon Coast Beach Connection (Oregon Coast) - Officials are predicting some one million extra people will pour into Oregon for the total solar eclipse on August 21st, and they thing this could well be what they call a "cosmic traffic jam" for many. It comes down to preparation and paying attention, according to Oregon Department of Transportation. Eclipse to test Central Oregon for natural disaster Bend Bulletin The strain may well be worth the headache it creates for state and local agencies, as it will help them gather information on how the region can handle an even bigger and less predictable natural phenomenon: an earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is widely viewed by Oregon officials as the state's greatest natural threat. Farmers, ODA clear the air for eclipse viewers Portland Tribune 21, said John Byers, manager of the Oregon Department of Agriculture Smoke Management Program. Burning is also "not expect to be a problem," said Roger Beyer, executive director of Oregon Seed Council. Industry Groups Praise Oregon's Move Toward Community Solar Solar Industry Gov. Kate Brown, D-Ore., signed S.B.1574 into law in March 2016. In addition to increasing the state's renewable portfolio standard and implementing other provisions, the legislation directed the PUC to develop a community solar program. For the last year, the PUC's staff and commissioners have worked with stakeholders to develop the program rules approved Thursday. Housing bill barring no-cause evictions moves forward in Oregon Legislature Statesman Journal A proposed housing stability bill barring most no-cause evictions is one step closer to going to the Oregon Senate after undergoing another round of changes Wednesday. Not enough farms, not enough farmers a growing concern in Oregon KATU Two things present a huge challenge to Oregon farms and ranches: Where will the next generation of farmers come from? And how will we keep farmland if it continues to get swallowed up in swelling and stretching urban growth boundaries? Strange 'sea pickles' keep washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest - and scientists are baffled Washington Post Ric Brodeur, a research biologist at the NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Newport, Ore., said that beachcombers in Oregon have been walking those beaches there for decades, but he has started getting report of pyrosomes washing up on the beaches only in the past few months. Thunderstorms rake across eastern Oregon, increasing risk of new wildfires KVAL "Thunderstorms producing frequent lightning have been observed across central and northeast Oregon this afternoon. Some storms are producing gusts up to 50 mph," forecasters in Pendleton report. "Where the fine fuels such as grass and shrubs are located, new fires from lightning strikes may spread rapidly." | INTERACTIVE RADAR Eco-group billboard blitz to greet Interior chief The Register-Guard Environmental groups plan to crash the homecoming in Montana next week of President Trump's Interior Department secretary with billboards, television ads and speeches to pressure him on issues from national monuments to sage grouse. Secretary Zinke is a graduate of the University of Oregon. Smart Growth America gives Twin Falls tips for reviving its warehouse district Idaho Business Review Wanted: small manufacturing, high-tech, warehousing and distribution companies to populate the nearly two dozen early 20th century warehouses at the south edge of downtown. Over 800 north London public housing apartments being evacuated over fire safety concerns myCentralOregon.com DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) - More than 800 public housing apartments in London are set to be evacuated over fire concerns in the wake of the deadly Grenfell Towers blaze that killed at least 79 people. 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: