From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Aug 25 11:18:40 2017 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 18:18:40 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for August 25, 2017 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02BFC58E1@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. ________________________________ Gov. Kate Brown to sign transportation bill in SE Oregon The Register-Guard ONTARIO - Gov. Kate Brown plans to visit southeastern Oregon next week to hold a ceremonial signing of the state's $5.3 billion transportation bill. Hood River names Dustin Nilsen Planning Director Hood River News Hood River names Dustin Nilsen Planning Director from a pool that included 20 applicants from Oregon, Washington and as far away as Wisconsin. Nilsen earned his Masters in urban and regional planning with a dual emphasis in land use and transportation from the University of Iowa. Planning for onion rail transload facility off to a good start Capital Press With the Idaho-Oregon onion industry facing chronic transportation issues, a planned rail transload facility in Malheur County, Oregon, can't come soon enough, industry leaders say. Go Farmhouse or Fancy at the Epicenter of Oregon Wine Seattlemag Sometimes you want your wine country vacation to deliver a taste of the good life, the villa-hopping, helicopter-chauffeured, spa-scrubbed-and-buffed good life usually reserved for daydreams. Other times, you crave a getaway of a different sort, one filled with nature walks, farm stand visits and picnics with the kids. 'Hoptopian' valley is hub for brewer's gold The Register-Guard Oregon's hop farmers have braved many challenges - Prohibition, downy ... Inspired by a trip to Oregon hop country just over a decade ago, Kopp ... the U.S. Department of Agriculture began funding a hop-breeding program at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Guest column: Improving flows in the Deschutes River Bend Bulletin COID is one of three irrigation districts in the Deschutes Basin that is going to apply for funding from this program to complete water conservation approach, making in-district operations more efficient. Merkley waffles on Jordan Cove The Register-Guard 7 town hall: "In light of the disastrous issues with southern Oregon's Jordan Cove/Pacific ... (Not to mention the earthquake and tsunami zone.). Washington County Cites Animal Exhibitor "A Walk on the Wild Side" For Two Code Violations Willamette Week Higgs and Jones have maintained their operations are fully licensed by the US Department of Agriculture and permitted by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. State recognizes housing crisis: Oregon legislature provides funding for programs Wallowa County Cheiftain However, there is another program for "affordable housing" handled through Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS), which the legislature has championed County Homeless Numbers Little Changed KAST 1370AM Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) has released findings from the 2017 ... In Clatsop County, the count is little changed from 2015. Allow people to shelter themselves The Register-Guard This is about land. People need land to live on. Let's allow people to buy the existing houses and lots, and subdivide them into two or three smaller lots for tiny houses or RVs. WATCH: What Happened to Solar Power in the US During the Eclipse Futurism On August 21, solar power facilities across the US faced a big test when the sun was eclipsed by the moon for several hours between Oregon and South Carolina. The Moon's Shadow Darkening the US During the Eclipse Is Terrifying TIME As the eclipse moved across the country, starting in Oregon and ending in South Carolina, NASA captured the shadow of the moon as it darkened the states in the eclipse's path. I Watched the Eclipse With 70000 Hippies on an Oregon Prairie TheStranger.com Such was life at the Oregon Eclipse Festival, this year's gathering of Symbiosis, the West Coast's leading "transformational festival." In 2012, Symbiosis' Pyramid Eclipse festival on Paiute tribal land ruffled some feather as the festival crowd, which freely borrows Native signifiers, came face to face with actual Native people. Metrorail Travel Patterns Revealed Planetizen Commute data for one of the nation's premier rail transit systems, revealed. Sam Winward explains a series of maps he made that show how people use the Metrorail in the Washington D.C. region. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: