From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Oct 5 17:04:16 2018 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 00:04:16 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News: October 5, 2018 Message-ID: <50df618a8c8348a4a6c162a042561c16@dlcd.state.or.us> Welcome to this 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. 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Is it because housing policies and standards for the city are outdated and do not reflect current numbers and demographics? Or maybe because the infill strategy the city decided to implement makes it more challenging for development of affordable housing? According to Linda Reid, housing program specialist, the last time the housing element was updated was in 1989. Senate passes Wyden-Merkley quake preparedness bill KTVZ "Scientists warn that it is a question of when, not if, Oregon will be struck by a large earthquake," Wyden said. "The best thing to do now is to be prepared with a coordinated plan to minimize the potential devastation to people and property. This bill helps on all fronts, and I'm glad to join my West Coast colleagues in this forward-thinking work." New Oregon Public Transportation Plan 750 KXL The vision for an Oregon transportation system filled with convenient and affordable public transportation options took a step closer to reality in September when the Oregon Transportation Commission adopted the new Oregon Public Transportation Plan. This action brings to a close more than two years' work by advisory committees and stakeholders in learning from Oregonians about what they value in a public transportation system. Many in-person discussions around the state and several online open houses engaged the public and provided valuable input in shaping the plan. Improving Whychus Creek The Source Weekly (press release) (blog) With growth around Central Oregon, wilderness areas tend to see an increase in traffic from humans. To reduce that human impact, the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council works to protect many of the waterways along the Deschutes River. One of those projects is the Whychus Creek Management Plan, which UDWC has been working on for nearly a decade. Ted Wheeler: Portland will keep paving the way for action on climate change OregonLive.com I recently returned from the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, where governors, mayors, nonprofits and businesses from around the world committed to policies and action plans for addressing arguably the biggest crisis of our era -- climate change. I am highly optimistic we can make real progress. I shared ideas with mayors from cities like Honolulu, Los Angeles and Heidelberg, Germany. Like Portland, they are dealing with more intense and frequent wildfires, higher temperatures and storms. Public Lands Grazing Helps Ranchers, Sage Grouse, Study Says OPB News "We found that as the restrictions to public lands increased, (private) landowners have historically made decisions to alter their land use. Then there's trigger points where they may sell those lands to higher intensity uses that would be bad for sage grouse," said David Naugle, study co-author and professor at the University of Montana. Regional Transportation Council approves I-5 Bridge replacement resolution clarkcountytoday.com (press release) After months of talk, the Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council (RTC) voted Tuesday to approve a resolution supporting a new effort to replace the aging Interstate Bridge on I-5. The council's resolution, which was essentially unchanged from what was discussed at their September meeting, includes language asking for high-capacity transit with a "dedicated guideway." Three Astoria businesses win statewide downtown awards Daily Astorian "The award winners reflect some of the highest achievements in downtown revitalization efforts across the state," Sheri Stuart, state coordinator for Oregon Main Street, said in a release. "It is gratifying to see the progress being made to revitalize historic downtowns across the state. This is happening because of the dedicated staff and volunteers who share a commitment to their downtowns and a passion to make their communities a better place." FEMA flood maps officially adopted into County Land Use Ordinance Tillamook Headlight-Herald As of Sept. 28, the new FEMA flood maps are officially a part of the Tillamook County Land Use Ordinance. The Tillamook County Board of Commissioners signed the ordinance amendment at their Sept. 19 meeting. Aurora Airport dispute to be mediated Portland Tribune Though the City of Wilsonville's arguments against the approval of an application to extend the Aurora Airport runway might not have swayed legislators during a recent Oregon State Legislature Emergency Review Board Meeting Sept. 24, the Board shelved the decision and provided a new platform for the City to discuss its concerns. Agritourism: harvest festivals, farms provide more than fun in the Mid-Valley Statesman Journal Browsing a local harvest festival, eating at a farm to table dinner or sipping ros? while painting with your best friend in a tulip field - it's all agritourism. In Marion and Polk counties, 115 of more than 3,500 farms in the area are involved in agritourism, said Mary Stewart, the agriculture business development and marketing leader for the OSU Extension Service. Former care center to become affordable housing Ontario Argus Observer Plans call for the former Presbyterian Care Center, shown here at 1085 N. Oregon St., to be renovated into affordable housing. The property has been purchased by Northwest Housing Alternatives, a housing authority based out of Oak Grove. The entity proposes to turn the site into about 60 housing units, according to Sherry Grau, associated housing developer with the organization. Officials will be applying to the Oregon Housing and Community Services in January for low income housing tax credits to fund the project, Grau wrote in a email. Millersburg transload project application filed Albany Democrat Herald Chairman Roger Nyquist told his fellow Linn County commissioners on Tuesday that the Linn Economic Development Group has submitted its application to develop a transload facility - the Mid-Valley Intermodal Center - at Millersburg to the Oregon Department of Transportation. "It's a good proposal," Nyquist said. "It's been a while since all of this started with Rep. (Andy) Olson and myself riding on a small bus with members of the Legislative Transportation Committee and pitching the site's merits, almost two years ago." Bend council candidates debate housing, growth, sewer Bend Bulletin Goodman-Campbell, public lands coordinator for the Oregon Natural Desert Association, said she agreed Bend should be building more homes quickly to address the city's housing crisis, but she said Bend should be careful about sprawling. The city's last urban growth boundary expansions took two tries and several years to be approved because it tried to expand too far, she said. "I really don't think we can afford more sprawl, especially when we have trouble maintaining the roads and infrastructure we have now," she said. Deschutes Land Trust acquires Metolius River Preserve KTVZ "The Land Trust has been working to conserve land in and around the Metolius River for 23 years," said Brad Chalfant, Deschutes Land Trust executive director. "The Metolius River Preserve, with nearly a mile of Metolius River frontage and a unique fen, fits squarely within our conservation strategy and made this property a priority," he said in the announcement. "The land trust is committed to permanently stewarding the preserve to maintain its unique and diverse ecological values." Would the US Tsunami Warning System Have Averted Indonesia's Disaster? The Atlantic The tragic answer has to do both with broken buoys and the horrifying and irrepressible power of tsunamis. "A tsunami will come faster than any early-warning system can possibly work," says Mika McKinnon, a geophysicist and disaster researcher based in San Francisco. In some disasters, early-warning systems will never be fast enough. 35 years later: Photos of Southern Arizona's devastating floods of 1983 Arizona Daily Star The October 1983 flood was the largest flood of record in the Tucson area. Nogales, Ariz,. police officers rescue Oscar Mankel. 32, with a garden hose from swirling waters of the flooded Santa Cruz River on Oct. 2, 1983, after Mankel fell in. A total of 13 lives were lost in flooding that ravaged much of southern Arizona. October 2, 1983. Oregon Village: What's new and what's next for the massive redevelopment project LancasterOnline In a packet of design guidelines submitted with its conditional-use plan, Oregon Village developers are looking to "create a modern version of a Lancaster County 'farm village'" with the project. 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: