From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Mar 2 17:02:51 2018 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 01:02:51 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for March 2, 2018 Message-ID: <5efe30781c604187add04764b56d730e@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. ________________________________ Metro's radical new idea for more housing KOIN.com PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) --- Metro is fundamentally changing how it decides to expand the urban growth boundary where new development can occur. The changes are intended to help assure that more housing will be built in the region over the next few years. This year for the first time elected regional government will consider requests from cities with specific plans to expand into urban reserves that have been set aside for future growth. Un-gentrifying Portland: scheme helps displaced residents come home The Guardian Two years ago, Dianne Causey's landlord died and her rental house in Portland, Oregon, went up for sale. The program five down payment assistance to first-time homeowners who were displaced, or at rise of displacement, from the city's north and north-east neighborhoods because of urban renewal; it falls under a city plan that delegates how $20m will be spent on affordable housing, in an effort to atone for the sins of gentrification. Bend group divvies up affordable housing dollars Bend Bulletin Habitat for Humanity and a community land trust are the big winners under proposals approved Wednesday by Bend's affordable housing advisory committee to provide $1 million in low-interest city loans to build affordable homes. The committee also agreed to split $70,000 among NeighborImpact, Saving Grace, Thrive Central Oregon and Volunteers in Medicine for services including counseling and free health care. More than 30 trees illegally cut down in Lake Oswego OregonLive.com A property owner in Lake Oswego got an unfortunate surprise when he visited his undeveloped land in mid-Februry. More than 30 trees, some of them more than 60 feet tall, had been illegally cut down without his permission. Luis Pacheco, whose family bought the property in Lake Oswego's Skyland neighborhood int eh 80s, but never developed it, arrive to find nearly three dozen of the large fir trees toppled. TriMet rolls out new bus lines in east Portland, Gresham and the westside OregonLive.com TriMet will start bus service on three new lines Monday, including a north-south route expected to increase service in underserved east Portland. The new lines are among the specific improvements the transit agency committed to make in 2015 and represent a significant investment in east Portland in particular. When Polluters Pay, People Get Cleaner, Thriving Economies The Daily Score This is an exciting moment for Cascadia, a time when BC has doubled down on its carbon pollution tax, when Oregon and Washington have promising bills moving through legislature, and when state leaders are acting on the clearly expressed climate action wishes of their constituents. Testing a range of price points per ton of carbon pollution, they found that holding polluters accountable and reinvesting the money in local priorities would grow jobs and wages, particularly in rural Oregon. BLM offers tours to see greater sage-grouse in Eastern Oregon Bend Bulletin Each year, ground-dwelling, chicken-sized birds travel to mating areas known as leks in Eastern Oregon and across the inland West. The breeding season begins in the early spring and lasts between four to six weeks, according to a news release from the Bureau of LandManagement. Oregon housing prices exceed pre-recession peak Bend Bulletin The report, ?Evaluating the Housing Market Since the Great Recession,? ranked the 50 states according to the extent their respective housingmarkets recovered after the recession. Oregon, where home prices grew by 54 percent over five years, overall ranked fourth behind Nevada, Washington and California and just ahead of Colorado. Oregon Cities Levy Construction Tax to Fund Affordable Housing Nonprofit Quarterly ?Portland,? Oregon's largest city, was ?among the first cities to pass both a construction excise tax and a mandatory inclusionary zoning policy after the state legislature lifted the ban,? observes Brey. The tax rate in Portland is set at one percent, the highest amount allowed by state law. Brey notes that the tax "applies only to projects valued at more than $100,000" and is "used to pay for affordable housing for families earning less than 60 percent of the median income." Portland Business Alliance steps into Jordan Cove LNG fight Portland Business Journal The long-running Jordan Cove debate is a hot issue in economically lagging Southern Oregon, pitting the opportunity for development against property rights and environmental concerns. Developing Town: Railroad gauge: Why was narrow installed locally? The Preston Citizen Having two different gauges of track utilize the same facilities created operating problems for the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway. The Oregon Short Line, going from the Union Pacific Railroadin western Wyoming to Oregon, was a broad-gauged road, with four-foot, eight-and-a-half-inches across the rails, the Utah and Northern Railroad had been built with narrow-gauged, three feet between the rails. Nationally the wider one was the standard. Eastern Oregon co-op to expand Columbia River grain terminal East Oregonian Plans to upgrade the Boardman elevator have been in the works for years, according to Gray, but it wasn't until the co-op landed a $2.5 million grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation's ConnectOregon program that they could finally put it all together. Oregon to fix nearly every curb ramp on its roads by 2032 Daily Astorian Nearly all of Clatsop County's more than 500 curb ramps on state roads do not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. But after an important legal settlement, the state Department of Transportation has committed to repairing all of them ? and others across Oregon ? in the next 15 years. Lebanon doesn't forget about its core: Downtown Lebanon Express That aligns with Oregon Main Street program goals. The program currently has placed Lebanon in the "Transforming Downtown" community level. The goal is to move Lebanon up to a "Performing Downtown" community. "There are certain benchmarks we have to hit before we get to that point," King said. Rural development the focus of SEDCOR Ag Breakfast Capital Press According to group's the last annual report, SEDCOR stimulated more than $96 million of new investment through projects that added or retained 575 jobs in Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties. Agriculture is an important part of the region's economy, said SEDCOR President Chad Freeman. A chance to transform urban planning The Economist Urban freeways, commuter suburbs and mandatory parking requirements reshaped cities. Now AVs promise to transform them once again, undermining many car-centric assumptions made in the 20th century, opening up new possibilities and turning urban-planning debates upside down. ?For the first time in a generation, we can really rethink what suburban development looks like," say Alan Berger, a professor of urban studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Column: Creative Development & Conservation Bernews 2018 is a pivotal year in terms of our aspirations for land use in Bermuda. Every 10 years or so, the Bermuda Government, led by the Department of Planning, undertake a review of the Bermuda Plan that ?provides for the land use and development requirements of the Island?. The island's sixth development plan will essentially reflect the way we position ourselves in terms of development versus conservation potential. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: