From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Jul 7 21:31:17 2017 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 04:31:17 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for July 7, 2017 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02BE0F41A@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. ________________________________ House passes major transportation bill McMinnville News-Register SALEM - The Oregon House passed a transportation bill Wednesday with new taxes and fees that would raise $3.8 billion over seven years for repairs to the state's roads and bridges. And it creates a $12 million-a-year rebate program for residents who buy new electric or hybrid cars. Tenant protections bill dies in Senate Portland Tribune The legislation began in the House as an effort to try to deter mass evictions and retaliation and discrimination against tenants. The House narrowly passed the bill 31-to-27 in early April. The bill would have banned no-cause evictions and required landlords to pay relocation expenses to tenants when they ask a tenant to leave for certain allowable business or personal reasons. Beavercreek property owners file racketeering suit against neighbors growing marijuana OregonLive.com Rachel McCart and Erin McCart, who own about 11 acres of fenced pastures and woodland off South Highland Crest Drive, say the operation harms their quality of life and diminishes the value of their land. They filed the civil lawsuit in Portland against their neighbors, the multiple marijuana distribution businesses and stores that buy the marijuana and even the bank that holds a mortgage on the two adjacent plots where the marijuana grows. Southern Exposure: Tsunami survival tips gleaned from Japan Daily Astorian This spring, Clatsop County Emergency Manager Tiffany Brown and Oregon State University Extension Coastal Natural Hazards Specialist Patrick Corcoran joined a delegation of about 50 sponsored by the Greater Portland Inc. economic development agency on a community resilience study mission in Japan to observe firsthand how public agencies and citizens have recovered from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which left almost 16,000 confirmed dead. What can Clatsop County benefit from the experience? SoCal couple greeted in Oregon by anti-California graffiti KABC-TV A Southern California couple who recently moved to Portland, Oregon received a not-so-neighborly welcome. They woke up to find a message reading, "get out of Portland", and another, "move back", painted on their car and their home. Ocean Crest Elementary School receiving seismic retrofit Coos Bay World The $1.4 million grant is the second in a round of three large monetary awards received by the Bandon School District from the Infrastrucutre Finance Authority, a division of Business Oregon, through the Oregon Seismic Rehabilitation Grant Program. "We're very excited to have an earthquake resistant school." Hundreds of schools still need to be upgraded. Climate change expected to fuel larger forest fires - if it hasn't already The San Diego Union-Tribune "Climate absolutely affects fire because it affects how flammable the fuels are," said LeRoy Westerling, a professor at UC Merced who has been studying climate and wildfires for the past 15 years. "Your drought years are going to be more extreme because it's warmer during the drought years, so you have more evaporation, and those preceding years that were wetter are retaining less water," added Westerling, who has worked on these issues with colleagues. Brockton school honored for safe walking routes Enterprise News Leaders from the Angelo Elementary School accepted a "Gold" award last week from the state for the Angelo School's dedicated participation in the Safe Routes to School program. At Home with Telework Builder Magazine How telecommuting and flexible work options are changing what buyers want in a home and a neighborhood. As Manny Gonzalez, principal at national architecture firm KTGY Architecture + Planning, puts it, the home office becomes more important once homeowners form a family. The final bar? How gentrification threatens America's music cities The Guardian Austin , Nashville and New Orleans have thrived on the success of vibrant music scenes. But as rents rise and noise complaints become more common, do they risk ruining what made them famous in the first place? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: