From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Aug 4 15:49:09 2017 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 22:49:09 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for August 4, 2017 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02BECE808@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. ________________________________ Judge reverses decision on lands suit The Register-Guard ALBANY - A judge has withdrawn an earlier opinion that appeared to jeopardize a lawsuit filed by Oregon counties and taxing districts over the management of state forest trust lands. Down the Mighty Columbia River, Where a Power Struggle Looms New York Times To ride down the Columbia River as the John Day Dam's wall of concrete slowly fills the view from a tugboat is to see what the country's largest network of energy-producing dams created through five decades Tsunami Zone Update Gets Pushback From Oregon Coast Legislators NW News Network Sooner or later the offshore Cascadia fault zone is going to unleash a monster earthquake and tsunami. When that day comes, the hope is that coastal schools, fire and police stations and hospitals are locate high enough so that they don't get washed away when we most need them to be there. Solar farm near Estacada wins approval Pamplin Media Group "Each of these is unique and you have to analyze each site against all of the exceptions criteria," senior planner Martha Fritzie told county commissioners. The only public testimony at the July 10 planning commission hearing was from the state land-use agency, officially the Department of Land Conservation and Development. Oregon's marijuana industry raises land use tensions Capital Press As Oregon's marijuana industry emerges from the shadows and the crop is cultivated on farmland, it's raised questions about the "right to farm" and other land use issues. City Officials Break Ground On Forthcoming Affordable Housing Apartment Building Patch.com PORTLAND, OR - Central City Concern on Wednesday helped kick off its Housing is Health initiative by breaking ground on the first of three new buildings. "The new building is expected to immediately contribute to the city's effort to increase affordable housing options. Rush 'hour' no more: Portland's 9 worst highway bottlenecks OregonLive.com Highway congestion and delays in the Portland area have worsened precipitously in recent years, the Oregon Department of Transportation says. O&C Commissioners met with Interior Secretary Coos Bay World Tim Freeman, President of the Association of O&C counties, said he was encouraged that the Trump administration is interested in rural Oregon. EPA backtracks on ozone The Register-Guard Emails show that new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt was in frequent contact with fossil fuel companies and special interest groups working to undermine federal efforts to curb planet-warming carbon emissions. Swapping cars for bikes, not diesel for electric, is the best route to clean air The Guardian (blog) Cities around the world that have more bikes and fewer cars are leading the way in creating better cities. They tend to be competitive and successful. American Companies Still Make Aluminum. In Iceland. New York Times Today, people work on the flats of the spectacular fjord, where America's largest aluminum company operates its newest smelter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: