From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Jul 28 17:16:20 2017 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 00:16:20 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for July 28, 2017 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02BECDA23@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. ________________________________ DLCD Legislative Summary for Land Use Agency Update During the 2017 legislative session, the legislature passed several bills that may require updates to local comprehensive plans and ordinances. The Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) has highlighted the bills in this summary. The Missing Jigsaw Piece The Source Weekly (press release) (registration) (blog) The State requires the City to have a comprehensive land-use plan, and higher-density?rather than sprawl?is preferred. Schueler points to the Vehicle Miles Traveled, an index assessed by The U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Lowering VMT, often through high-density areas and transportation corridors, is the go-to method adopted in Bend. Bend looking at affordable housing pilot program Bend Bulletin The Oregon Department of Land Conservation gave Bend permission late last year to eventually annex 2,380 acres around town, and it's unclear whether the department would be willing to let the city bring in more land so soon. AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Assistance on the way, but more must be done The News Guard Lincoln City and Lincoln County continue to face an affordable housing challenge. ?We have a sustainable housing issue,? State Rep. David Gomberg said. ?Oregon public transit hits the brakes (Infographic) Portland Business Journal Following a national trend, Portland's TriMet and other transit systems across Oregon are transporting fewer passengers. Seattle is one of the few major cities to keep building ridership. Oregon Lags Behind in Wind and Solar Energy KLCC FM Public Radio A report issued by the Environment Oregon Research and Policy Center shows that despite rapid growth of renewable energy facilities in Oregon, the state still lags behind the rest of the country in solar and wind energy. 'One less spark is one less wildfire': Fire danger restricts logging, open fires, smoking KVAL Fire danger is high in the the Oregon Department of Forestry's South Cascade District. That includes parts of Eastern Lane County and Northern Douglas County. When temperatures rise, so do restrictions on industrial operations. Water plentiful in Eastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho Capital Press Record or near-record snowpack levels in basins around southwestern Idaho and Eastern Oregon have provided the region's farmers with a full supply of irrigation water this year. Input Sought On Deschutes Basin Habitat Plan KBND I feel like a lot of the Deschutes Basin stakeholders are eager to see this go forward, and we're eager to hear their input." Moran adds, "I feel the long term restoration of the Deschutes River is before us, and that?s exciting: Oregon Coastal Ecologies: Where Human Meets Nature The Corvallis Advocate Two years ago, Washington placed puffins on the state's endangered species list with only 2,958 birds counted. Oregon does not list puffins as an endangered species, nor a species of concern. Marine Sanctuaries Not Safe From Drilling Planetizen As it has already done with public lands, the Trump Administration is studying how to roll back environmental protections for the sake of the oil and gas industries. This time, marine sanctuaries are the administration?s target. Mapping Coastal Flood Risk Lags Behind Sea Level Rise NPR Sea levels are rising. Most people with property in hazardous areas ? where the annual risk of a flood is one in a hundred or more ? are required by law to buy federal flood insurance from FEMA?s National Flood Insurance Program. Future sea level rise ? which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones ? is not factored in. New flood study reveals America's most vulnerable communities Phys.Org Floods are the natural disaster that kill the most people. They are also the most common natural disaster. As the threat of flooding increases worldwide, a group of scientists as LSU have gathered valuable information on flood hazard, exposure and vulnerability in countries throughout the U.S. Reframing climate change assessments around risk environmentalresearchweb Climate change is increasingly being framed as a risk management problem, albeit a uniquely challenging one. It is characterized by multiple intersecting and uncertain future hazards to natural and human systems, that are expected to unfold over a very large range of spatial and temporal scales, and whose probabilities may be difficult, or in some cases impossible, to quantify precisely. Public employee union drops plan to oppose transportation deal OregonLive.com Leaders of Oregon's powerful public employee union said Monday that they will not try to overturn a transportation funding bill at the ballot. Oregon's New Bike Tax and the Future of Transportation Taxes Tax Foundation Oregon's new $5.3 billion transportation package includes an interesting wrinkle: a bicycle tax. Although it represents a minuscule share of the new revenues adopted under House Bill 2017, the $15 excise tax undeniably captured the attention of cycling enthusiasts in Oregon and elsewhere. Skyrocketing Rents in California Signal a Broader US Housing Crisis Truth-Out Skyrocketing Rents in California Signal a Broader US Housing Crisis. Since California's housing crisis is the most acute, the fight for rent control is heating up across the state. Where are the 'transit deserts' in Texas? Houston Chronicle In this photo: Jose Escobar sits at the bus stop near the Navigation Boulevard Esplanade. Even in a city as progressive as Portland, Oregon, thousands live in transit desert neighbrohoods. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: