From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Mar 16 13:08:37 2018 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:08:37 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for March 16, 2018 Message-ID: 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. ________________________________ Washington Park's 20-year master plan OK'd KOIN.com "Wish I didn't have to," Kirsch told KOIN 6 News, "but where we live there is very little public transportation." Some of the biggest changes under this plan are in the area above the Rose Garden near the tennis courts where a big greenhouse, food carts and some new buildings are planned. Columbia Riverkeeper challenges Port Westward expansion St. Helens Chronicle The vote marked Port of St. Helens' second rezone request at Port Westward, reviving efforts to expand its industrial boundary after farmer and business owner Mike Seely and Columbia Riverkeeper's legal challenge to the rezone prevailed at the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals in 2014. Allow development of Northwest Hillsboro: Letter to the editor OregonLive.com 28 guest opinion, "Let's face the truth about Oregon's housing crisis." House Bill 4075, which would have corrected a grievous error committed by a previous Legislature where they downgraded previously zoned urban reserve property (1,700 acres in the northwest Hillsboro part of Washington County) to rural reserve, died in committee. It needs to be resurrected and passed. Marion County solar vs. farmland fight brings moratorium, push for compromise Portland Business Journal In Marion County, the morning hearing brought out an overflow crowd. Many landowners spoke in favor of new restrictions. Some feared that allowing solar would result in the permanent loss of farmland, leading to home-building or other feared development, although the conditional use permits granted ... Directors of the Netflix Rajneeshees docuseries talk about 'the craziest story' in Oregon history OregonLive.com Directors Maclain Way, left, and Chapman Way went through hundreds of hours of archival footage for their Netflix docuseries, "Wild Wild Country," which tells the strange-but-true story of an Indian guru named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and his followers' attempts to build a city in rural Oregon in the early 1980's Paramount Gold Nevada Receives Approvals From Oregon State Regulators GlobeNewswire (press release) WINNEMUCCA, Nev., March 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paramount Gold Nevada Corp. (NYSE American:PZG) ("Paramount") reported today that the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries ("DOGAMI") and the Department of Environmental Quality ("DEQ") have approved and accepted the first two baseline environmental reports required for the permitting of Paramount's proposed Grassy Mountain gold mine in Oregon. Astoria eyes enterprise zone expansion Daily Astorian Enterprise zones are used as tools to encourage development by offering property tax exemptions. Oregon has 69 enterprise zones, the majority of them in rural areas. The Clatsop Enterprise Zone, established in 2015, includes sites in Warrenton and nearby unincorporated areas. Environmentalists file lawsuit claiming dams harm fish in Willamette Basin Capital Press Research conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that, historically, around 325,000 Chinook salmon and 220,000 winter steelhead swamp up Willamette Falls to spawn in the upper river basin. Goal: protecting Deschutes River wildlife, irrigation KTVZ The Deschutes River has seen many changes over the years, and now, organizations are coming together to ensure that it can be sustainable in the future. One of the biggest problems is making sure that fish populations are able to survive in the Deschutes and other rivers across the Deschutes Basin. Oregon county approves scaled-back rural housing zone Capital Press Even so, Cubic acknowledges the county's experiment with the "rural open space" designation is a test case for Oregon. The county has tried to resolve concerns raised by Oregon's Department of Land Conservation and Development, which administers the statewide land use planning system, he said. Portland weighs reviving tax breaks for affordable apartments OregonLive.com But the units are only required to remain affordable for 10 years, compared to the 99-year affordability requirement baked into the city's inclusionary zoning policy, or the of up to 30 years under federal tax credits for low-income housing. The MULTE program was had been popular among developers. Study projects damage from rare Portland Hills quake, Cascadia earthquake kgw.com The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) conducted the study of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake's potential impacts on Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties in order to estimate the worst-case scenario Feared Big One earthquake on Ring of Fire 'will leave tens of thousands dead' Daily Star A massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the notorious Ring of Fire zone would cause chaos, panic-stricken people to flee their homes and billions of pounds of damage, a report has found. The study covers populous regions of the US state, Oregon, which lies on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. New study shows Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure as many as 27000 people KVAL A new study by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) says a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure as many as 27,000 people in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. Tsunami sirens may go up in Warrenton Daily Astorian WARRENTON - A devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered a warning up and down the Oregon Coast. The warning turned out to be unnecessary for the most part, but it marked the moment when a number of people in Astoria and Warrenton found out their cities did not have tsunami warning sirens. Zinke: Oil, gas exploration off Oregon coast might not happen OregonLive.com Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke expressed doubt Tuesday that oil and gas exploration will happen off the Pacific coast as part of the Trump administration's proposal to dramatically expand offshore leasing, saying California, Oregon and Washington have "no known resources of any weight" for energy companies to extract. Eastern Oregon river could provide framework for water sharing Bend Bulletin Bellis said the current system can leave irrigation districts with junior water rights with less water than they need, which can force them to aggressively draw down reservoirs in Central Oregon. Cutting and leaving invasive western juniper may lead to increase in invasive grasses Phys.Org Much of the focus of attention is habitat recovery of some of the ecosystem's notable inhabitants, including the greater sage-grouse, Oregon's prized mule deer herds and many other important wildlife species found in the sagebrush steppe. Successful Transit Stories Williamson Source Portland, Oregon has had a dedicated bus transit system and light rail since 1977. The system reaches its fingers throughout the city. It is used by everyone, not just to get to work and back, but by tourists to go to attractions accessible from the line, and on the weekends by whole families to get from place to place. Adirondack Park Agency Proposes Redefining Travel Corridors To Include Recreational Trails WAMC New York state wants to replace a stretch of train tracks in the Adirondacks with a recreational trail for bicycling, walking, snowmobiling and other uses. But after losing a lawsuit, the Adirondack Park Agency is now proposing a change in the Adirondack land-use plan in hopes of clearing the way for the ... Sadie K Carney | Rural Policy Analyst/Communications Manager Director's Office Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development 635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540 Direct: (503) 934-0036 | Cell: (503) 383-6648 | Main: (503) 373-0050 sadie.carney at state.or.us | www.oregon.gov/LCD/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: