From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Feb 23 11:55:03 2018 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:55:03 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for February 23, 2018 Message-ID: <82fcb1df1c6e4e8382ede58558b6d59e@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. ________________________________ OP-ED: Tired of land-use drudgery? A simplified strategy starts at home Daily Journal of Commerce Forty years ago, municipal and county zoning and land-use ordinances could be captured on just a few sheets of paper. Today, page counts number in the hundreds, and the list of codes, rules and regulations seems to expand after every city council, town hall or state-agency meeting. 97% of sidewalk ramps along Oregon highways violate ADA standards, survey finds OregonLive.com The Oregon Department of Transportation conducted the audit as part of a settlement with Disability Rights Oregon, which sued the state last year over inadequate curb ramps and crossings. The survey found 97 percent of 26,000 curb ramps inspected weren't ADA-compliant, and 10 Oregon counties didn't have a single complaint ramp. Sidewalk talks continue at traffic safety board Keizertimes The area around Kennedy is also devoid of sidewalks and the Keizer branch of the Boys & Girls Club sits right next to the school campus. "Under the Safe Routes to Schools program, Title 1 schools have priority. Cummings is not a Title 1 school, Kennedy is," said board member Hersch Sangster. The FAQ: Answering 11 key questions on highway 'value pricing' in Portland Portland Business Journal Last year's transportation bill included direction to the Oregon Department of Transportation to develop a plan to implement "value pricing" on Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 from their junction to the Columbia River. Anti-freeway activists believe charging tolls on metro interstates is a more effective way to relieve congestion than a freeway expansion. Portland breaks ground on new RiverPlace affordable housing development KPTV.com Affordable housing help is on the way to Portland after the first phase of RiverPlace Parcel 3 officially broke ground Friday morning. The 88,000-square foot project will bring 203 affordable living apartments to southwest Portland's RiverPlace neighborhood, helping out those who make far less than the median family income, as well as homeless veterans. Hui will step down from HAYC Pamplin Media Group "Of all the housing authorities in the Oregon area, Yamhill is the most highly rated," he said. "They're the most highly thought of and really the most professional. It's an incredibly professional group of people." Gougler pointed to Hui's leadership as the primary factor in the expansion of affordable housing in the country. In her tenure as executive director, the agency has built six new housing developments. SALEM HOUSING AUTHORITY AWARDED GRANT Salem Weekly The Salem Housing Authority was awarded a $150,000 grant by the Meyer Memorial Trust Foundation, which will be used to fund a full-time Service Coordinator Case Manager for Homeless Rental Assistance Program (HRAP). Salem's HARP is the largest "Housing First" program in Oregon. Leaders: Labor shortage due to lack of training, state benefits Ontario Argus Observer The exclusive region - the Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region - was created by the 2017 Oregon Legislature in House Bill 2012. It is designed to help Malheur County be more competitive with its neighbors in Idaho, and includes the valley area of the northern part of the county, taking in Ontario, Nyssa and Vale. Upper Deschutes Basin Study sets open houses KTVZ The Upper Deschutes Basin Study, anticipated to be completed this year, aims to develop a comprehensive analysis of water supply and demand in the basin while evaluating options for addressing water imbalances. Surface water in the Upper Deschutes Basin has been almost fully allocated since the early 1900s, causing many stream reaches to suffer from high and low flows at different times of the year. Alexander: Reflections on 20 years of smart growth planning Long Island Business News For a group that has spent a fair amount of its days planning, the evolution of the Smart Growth movement was not planned. When Vision Long Island started as a community organization in Huntington in the mid-'90s we were routinely laughed at by a long list of accomplished, elite folks who told us "no one will EVER support apartments on LI," and "no one wants to live over a store," and "who walks?" and "who cares about buses?" and "why are you getting involved in any of these issues?" Suburban transit-oriented development a fine idea, but Wilmette project fails to live up to suburb's ... Chicago Tribune In 2009, the suburb of about 27,000 started looking for ways to revive its then-moribund downtown by building on the advantage of its heavily used Metra station. Aided by a grant from the Regional Transportation Authority, Wilmette devised a master plan that called for increasing building heights and densities in targeted areas of the downtown. 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