From sadie.carney at state.or.us Thu Mar 29 17:00:22 2018 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00:22 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for March 30, 2018 Message-ID: <9e59e38c3b22497c8e76a3443a0ddaa6@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. ________________________________ DLCD Guidance on ADUs DLCD Press Release While Oregon's population continues to expand, the supply of housing, already impacted by a lack of building during the recession, has not kept up. To address the lack of housing supply, House Speaker Tina Kotek introduced legislation to remove barriers to development. Among the provisions that passed into law is the requirement that cities and counties over a certain population allow accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in areas zoned for single-family dwellings. Bend seeks public comment on UGB implementation KTVZ The Bend City Council is inviting the public to comment on proposed next steps for implementing the Urban Growth Boundary plan. Public input will be taken during the Council's regular business meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4. Expanding the growth boundary won't help our housing crisis: Guest opinion OregonLive.com Various national studies have well established that infrastructure is more expensive for greenfield land. Closer to home, a 2013 study by 1000 Friends of Oregon drew on studies of infrastructure costs in the United States when infill "quality growth" was built rather than "land-extensive" sprawl. North Coast Food Trail is ready for launch Tillamook Headlight-Herald One year ago, Visit Tillamook Coast held a two-day agritourism workshop that was facilitated by Travel Oregon through its Rural Tourism Studio training program. Sixty-seven community members took part, and they made the decision at the end of the two days to develop a food and farm trail centered on the north coast of Oregon. New Tsunami Maps For Southwest Washington Coast Have 'Shocking' Flooding KUOW News and Information Forson said the earlier and the new tsunami inundation maps both assumed a magnitude 9 earthquake, but the newer modeling produced a bigger surge. Now Oregon State University is preparing to break ground on a new marine studies building next to Yaquina Bay in Newport using a similar vertical evacuation concept. BLM sells nearly 2 million board feet of timber Coos Bay World The Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands, known as the O&C Lands, lie in a checkerboard pattern through eighteen counties of western Oregon. These lands contain more than 2.4 million acres of forests with a diversity of plant and animal species, recreation areas, mining claims, grazing lands, cultural and historical resources, scenic areas, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness. A safe future for wildlife benefits all Oregonians: Guest opinion OregonLive.com But for most of Oregon's wildlife -- nearly 90 percent of all species living here -- there is no dedicated stream of conservation support. ... Too often, conservation action comes only after a species is listed under the Endangered Species Act. By that time, recovery is more challenging and costly, with greater human impacts. What's Next For Josephine County Marijuana Farmers? KDRV Right now the Josephine County Board of Commissioners are considering three options: leave the ordinance as is and send letters to all rural residential land owners, adopt Jackson counties marijuana ordinance, or file a federal appeal seeking a declaratory judgement on the current ordinance. Klamath Basin drought crisis, 4000 jobs at risk Oregon Natural Resources Report By Oregon Family Farm Association. Severe water shortages and mountain snowpack levels less than half of average prompted a drought declaration for the Klamath Basin and the offer of federal assistance to help farmers curtail wind erosion on their land. Workshops help farmers transition land to next generation Capital Press "Changing Hands: A Workshop Series on Farm Succession Planning and Access to Land," will feature the critical tools and resources that farmers, ranchers, and foresters need to keep Oregon's working lands working. 199-unit development on the drawing board Sisters Nugget According to Community Development Director Patrick Davenport, the City wanted the community to provide feedback on Hayden's plans so the developer could hear local concerns before Hayden formally files a land-use application. The application will consist of zoning map amendments to shift 1.8 acres of open space zone to another area on the project site, a master plan, and tentative subdivision plat. Volunteers needed to clear the Oregon Timber Trail Bend Bulletin The OTT is a partnership among Travel Oregon, the Forest Service and the Portland-based expedition company Limberlost, founded by Tiller. The idea for the trail was inspired by the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, which is not open to bikes, and other long-distance trails on which cycling is allowed, such as the 800-mile Arizona Trail and the 2,800-mile Great Divide mountain bike route that cuts through the Rocky Mountains from Canada to Mexico. Oregon City's Main Street wins national award KGW.com OREGON CITY, Ore. -- Oregon City earned a national award Wednesday, named one of three Great American Main Streets in the U.S. for 2018. The award is decided by judges involved in historic preservation and community development across the country. Local towns get street funds Ontario Argus Observer Under the new funding, 31 cities in Eastern Oregon will be receiving $50,000 each this year, including Vale, Nyssa, Jordan Valley and Huntington, according to Mike Barry, with the Oregon Department of Transportation. Members of the commission, from Malheur, Grant and Harney counties advise the agency and the Oregon Transportation Commission on issues involving the three counties. Low-Income Rental Housing Shortages Happening Nationwide DSNews.com States with the greatest percentage of severely cost-burdened ELI renter households include Nevada (83 percent), Florida (79 percent), California (77 percent), Oregon (76 percent), Hawaii (75 percent), Colorado (75 percent), and Virginia (75 percent). The degree of the shortages varies significantly by state, but the problem is nationwide. Listening Tour Explores How to Make Ore. Communities Age-Friendly Public News Service For instance, AARP learned about an affordable housing initiative in Milwaukie that was able to help Medford in its current housing crisis. Shrestha says AARP will let the communities know what it discovers on the tour, and inform Oregon's leaders as well. "We hope to share it with policymakers, decision makers, and community leaders across the state so that we can get a greater commitment from our leaders about the kind of policies and practices that would help communities to become more age-friendly and livable for people 50-plus," she says. We're growing, with new brewpubs, restaurants and subdivisions. But at what cost? Idaho Statesman Oregon and Florida are different in just about any way you could imagine, but their city planning is one that stands out to me. Larger cities in Oregon have an urban growth boundary that confines dense development. On one side of the line is city and suburb; on the other side is farmland. It's that sharp, and it's beautiful. Homeless family fights to keep son off streets at night Statesman Journal In Marion County, there are few shelters that will take full families. And they frequently come with waiting lines weeks or months long. Many families have to decide whether it's better to split up, especially when they have sons between the ages of 12 and 18 - they are too old to stay at the women's and family shelters, but too young to stay at the men's shelters. 2018 Planning Excellence Awards Announced Planetizen The APA revealed their annual recognition of the best of the best for planners and planning in 2018. Governor Cuomo Wants Broad Powers to Redevelop Around Penn Station Planetizen The idea is still extremely speculative, but reports are that Governor Cuomo is pushing for legislation that would enable broad powers for the state to redevelop around Penn Station in New York City. Dispute over traffic signal highlights safety riddle facing suburbs CBC.ca It's a chicken-and-egg conundrum that highlights the difficulties facing growing suburban communities when it comes to traffic safety, and neither residents nor their city councilors seem to have a solution for the riddle. "So the city is asking that we provide that as a gift, and we feel that's unfair," said Danny Page, the planning manager for Valecraft Homes. Double trouble? How big cities are gentrifying their neighbours The Guardian Photograph: John Freeman/Getty Images/Lonely Planet Images. "It's the same story in New York City, where the gentrification pushed rents up so high that artists found they could no longer afford to live there," says Loretta Lees of the University of Leicester, the author of several books on gentrification. The American Eviction Epidemic Planetizen According to a new report, a U.S. "eviction epidemic" is connected to a growing number of homeless people. Jarrett Walker, International Consultant in Public Transit, To Speak at Florida Tech April 3 SpaceCoastDaily.com The F. Alan Smith Distinguished Lecture Series will host Jarrett Walker on April 3, who is an international consultant in public transit network design and policy, based in Portland, Oregon. Walker's talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of Florida's Tech F. Alan Smith Distinguished Lecture Series. 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: