From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Oct 27 14:36:52 2017 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:36:52 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for October 27, 2017 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF02C0B70A6@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. ________________________________ The Land Conservation and Development Commission has set the 2018 meeting dates and locations. Please note dates and locations are subject to change. http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/Pages/meetings.aspx How will 'Really Big One' earthquake shake out? Researchers run 50 simulations OregonLive.com A University of Washington research project simulates 50 ways an earthquake of epic proportions -- dubbed "The Really Big One" -- could shake out in the Northwest. Stub Stewart campground, trails and disc golf course will close temporarily OregonLive.com The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department converted the land into a mixed-use park, opening it to the public in 2007. Since then, the many miles of trails have become popular among hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians. The closure is due to a logging project in the park. Shortage of Christmas trees expected this holiday season kgw.com The Oregon Department of Agriculture also reports that the number of licensed Christmas tree growers in the state has declined over recent years. Chetco Bar Fire may slow spread of sudden oak death in Oregon tanoaks Statesman Journal The U.S. Department of Agriculture has quarantined part of Oregon's south coat to keep the disease contained. "If you have tanoak affected in an infected area, you try to remove the tanoak by cutting and piling and burning," said Steve Boyer, with the U.S. Forest Service in Gold Beach, Oregon. Council approves Branding & Wayfinding Master Plan St. Helens Chronicle The plan was funded through a $40,000 grant awarded to the city through the 2016-2017 Travel Oregon Matching Grants Program, which the city matched with funds garnered from the motel/hotel tax, bringing the total to $80,000. Astoria Ferry Group project back off the rocks Daily Astorian A board member on the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, she has reached out to the state's tourism agency Travel Oregon and said the group has shown interest in supporting the development of the ferry as a sustainable tourist attraction. "One of the challenges that local people and even visitors in this area have is the ability to get on the Columbia River," Quinn said. "And that really defines us. We're a river town." Willamette Valley farmers will face water challenges Capital Press A study by Oregon State University examines water supply and demand in the basin the by year 2100. By the turn of the century, farmers in Oregon's Willamette Valley will be planting earlier and will begin irrigating about two weeks sooner than they do now, according to an Oregon State university study. Board considers housing finance options Portland Tribune "We have to do something about affordable housing," Commissioner Bob Terry said. Bend was the first in Oregon to levy such a tax, which is .3 percent of the building-permit balutation of residential, commercial and industrial development. The Bus is Back: Eugene expands 'Emerald Express' Bus Rapid Transit system Oregon Business (blog) The first leg of OB's bus tour takes us from Portland to Eugene, with stops at Lane County Transit, the storefront of a BRT critic and new wave mobility company Arcimoto. Welcoming solar farms will be easy as long as taxpayers not burdened Statesman Journal In 2016, more than 4,500 people worked in the solar-energy field in Oregon, which was up 50 percent from 2015, according to the Solar Foundation in Washington D.C. Solar farms coming to Mid-Willamette Valley as part of nearly $1 billion development spree Statesman Journal Cypress Creek started working in Oregon in 2014. Six farms are generating electricity in Malheur County and one in Deschutes County. At some of those sites, the company took advantage of a taxpayer-fueled effort by state officials to increase renewable energy supplies. Waste heat recovery lacks incentives available to wind and solar Oregon Business These programs prioritize wind and solar over emerging technologies, a practice some activist and politicians say stifles clean tech innovation. In addition, waste heat to power systems don't qualify for Oregon's net metering law, which pay solar users for excess electricity they sent back into the grid. Forbes ranks Portland 'Best Places for Business and Careers' in the country OregonLive.com The magazine cited "companies with a large local presence in the Portland metro like Nike, Intel, Daimler and Boeing," and the burgeoning tech and startup community, which they call "Silicon Forest," a name I think we can all agree hasn't really caught on. Plans for Nestle water bottling plant in Cascade Locks moves forward despite ban KPTV.com Oxbow Springs feeds the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Oxbow Fish Hatchery. Complicating things further, Oxbow Springs itself, while inside the Cascade Locks urban growth boundary, is outside city limits. Filling In Inner Bend The Source Weekly (press release) (blog) The City also amended its development code, changing it from light industrial to mixed-use development in the area-named as an "opportunity area" in Bend's Urban Growth Boundary expansion plan, acknowledged by the state late last year. Bend council approves housing fee exemptions Bend Bulletin Tax credits for financing, which he described as the "crack cocaine" of affordable housing financing, are pretty rare - Central Oregon gets about one tax credit-financed project every couple of years. Once So Chic and Swooshy, Freeways Are Falling Out of Favor New York Times BUFFALO - The Scajaquada Corridor is a city dweller's dreamland, a culture-vulture Valhalla. Within two miles there is a restored Frank Lloyd Wright house you can visit, an art museum with Picassos and Gauguin's, three college campuses, a zoo and a history museum in a majestic Greek Revival building from the 1901 Pan Am Exposition listed on the National Historic Register. There is just one problem: An expressway runs through it. County faces decision on density transfers Jackson Hole News&Guide Current rural land development regulations offer density bonuses to encourage conservation of 90 percent of the area of 35-acre and larger sites. The tools is designed as an incentive for owners of large properties to place their land under conservation. On Monday the Teton County Planning Commission voted 4-0 to approve the amendment allowing owners of noncontiguous sites to use the tool. California wildfires: Housing crunch in Bay Area gets even costlier after deadly fires OregonLive.com A spike in housing and other living costs had driven her friends to Nevada and Oregon. Now Finzell wonders if that will be her fate too, as the wildfires that charred California wine country send thousands of people who lost their homes scrambling for new places to live in one of the nation's tightest and most expensive housing markets. Alexandria has too much parking and small biz is paying the price. Here's what the city might do ... Washington Business Journal Ten percent of the city of Alexandria's surface is covered by parking lots, the city reports. And much of that parking, expensive as it is for businesses to provide, isn't being used. Alexandria hasn't comprehensively updates its commercial parking standards since 1963, but it is headed that way as the city appears, based on an initial survey, to be well over-supplied. Yards Slim Down as House Size Grows Planetizen As the footprints of the average suburban home grows and lot sizes shrink, the traditional sprawling yard is getting squeezed out. 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