From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Nov 9 17:07:12 2018 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 01:07:12 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News: November 9, 2018 Message-ID: <045e6053e94846a3bb6d4381a6ab0ac2@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. 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. ________________________________ Oregon Voters Pass Affordable Housing Measure 102 OPB News In early returns Tuesday, Oregon voters appeared on the way to approving a constitutional amendment advocates say helps address the state's housing crisis. Measure 102 would amend the Oregon Constitution and make it easier for cities and counties to use their power to borrow money for affordable housing construction. $653 million Metro affordable housing bond passes: Election results 2018 OregonLive.com Portland-area voters on Tuesday approved a $652.8 million bond measure to build thousands of homes affordable for low-income residents. Measure 26-199, referred to the ballot this year by the Metro regional government, was ahead 58 percent to 42 percent as of 9 p.m. It held a majority in each of the three metro-area counties in partial returns, though the margin in Clackamas County was less than one percentage point. For Georgia's affordable housing advocates, stuff of dreams on Oregon ballot SaportaReport Voters in Oregon face a ballot initiative Tuesday that represents the stuff of dreams for some advocates of affordable housing in Georgia - a proposal that is to produce more bang for each buck of public investment in homes affordable to those earning the salaries of schoolteachers. Warrenton project preserves affordable housing Daily Astorian Some of the units in the Alder Court Apartments, a 40-unit complex in Warrenton managed by the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority, were close to uninhabitable. Forty years of weather had left many units slowly rotting away on the inside and out, endangering one of the region's largest federally subsidized housing options for people over 55 and with disabilities. Dead Zones Increasing Off Oregon Coast, Including California, Washington Oregon Coast Beach Connection Scientists from the central Oregon coast's Hatfield Marine Science Center say the low-oxygen "dead zones" offshore are not only increasing in size and frequency but they've been popping up along the coastlines of Washington and California as well. According to findings by Francis Chan of Oregon State University in Corvallis (of which the Hatfield in Newport is a part), Oregon has seen a decline in oxygen in ocean waters near the seafloor for two decades now, resulting in what they term "hypoxia season." More bike racks could be in Coos Bay's future Coos Bay World The Coos Bay Downtown Association is seeking approval from the city council to move forward with plans to bring more bike racks to the downtown area. "We're still in the very beginning stages. We're just asking city council for approval of the design and locations," said CBDA executive director Holly Boardman. Transit service hopes to expand Curry Coastal Pilot Curry Public Transit is already making plans for grant money it hopes to receive through the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund (STIF), which the county anticipates bringing $175,000 a year for transit service expansions. According to Kathryn Bernhardt, general manager of Curry Public Transit, last year's passage of House Bill 2017 "Keep Oregon Moving" created a new dedicated source of funding to expand transportation in rural communities throughout the state. For Uniontown, a 'land use first' process Daily Astorian "It's really about balance," said Michael Duncan, senior regional planner and grant manager with the Oregon Department of Transportation. 81-year-old land act shouldn't decide today's logging plans The Register-Guard Global warming & climate change were not a consideration in 1937. Could someone please tell me why a dated act (O&C Lands) continues to be used as a rationale for logging that contributes to such? Time after time, the BLM uses an 81 year-old act as grounds to ignore the serious ecological problem of our time. Oregon Utilities Commission hears testimony for PUD's Transmission Line Project Tillamook Headlight-Herald Officials with the Tillamook People's Utility District (TPUD) along with opponents to the Netarts/Oceanside Transmission Line project were called into a hearing with the Oregon Public Utilities Commission last week to answer questions proposed by the state agency in regards to the project. Neglected pastures thrive under solar panels Anthropoce Solar panels could increase productivity on pastures that are not irrigated and even water-stressed, a new study finds. The new study published in PLOS One by researchers at Oregon State College finds that grasses and plants flourish in the shade underneath solar panels because of a significant change in moisture. The results bolster the argument for agrovoltaics, the concept of using the same area of land for solar arrays and farming. The idea is to grow food and produce clean energy at the same time. Fossil fuel money crushed clean energy ballot initiatives across the country Vox But there were several climate change- and energy-related ballot initiatives up for a vote across the country as well. For the most part, they did not go well for fans of clean energy. The ones that utilities and oil and gas companies mobilized and spent big against lost. After being boxed out of climate and energy policy at the federal level, the left has turned to states, but at least last night, the states did not deliver much good news. League of Oregon Cities announces new legislative director Coos Bay World The League of Oregon Cities announced its new legislative director on Wednesday morning. According to a press release from LOC, Jim McCauley will step into the new role. As of now, he is the government affairs manager for Washington County, Ore. He replaces Craig Honeyman, who is retiring on Dec. 31 after having served 10 years as the LOC's legislative director. 2018 Skidmore Prize Winners Willamette Week Her umbrella organization,1000 Friends of Oregon, is the watchdog nonprofit that defends and strengthens Oregon's statewide land-use planning program. 1000 Friends, in turn, founded the Portland for Everyone Coalition in 2016 and hand-selected Kovacs to lead it. Her unique blend of communications experience and policy development know-how perfectly fit the role, and she's been helped considerably by a background of community organizing and environmental activism that began in college. Smart City Playbook Planetizen "Columbus, OH has unveiled a playbook for other cities to learn how to become a smart city," reports Katie Pyzyk. "In the Smart Columbus Playbook, the city offers articles, contracts, webinars, case studies and data for other city leaders to leverage and learn from when jumpstarting smart programs and initiatives," adds Pyzyk. New urban planning and community development software under development by Oracle UrbDeZine The company has launched a cloud-based product called Oracle Public Sector Community Development, which will begin with a focus on permits and inspections and then add new modular functionality as time goes on, in a move that will put it in competition with established market players like Tyler Technologies and Accela. That's because permitting and licensing is a pretty core component of government work, especially at the local level - think business licenses and zoning. So there are a lot of potential buyers out there. Despite thorough debunking, neoliberal housing politics prevail in the Bay Area Salon The YIMBY movement, an acronym for "Yes In My Backyard," consists of developers, activists, politicians and a few political advocacy groups who hew to a seemingly simple creed: To solve the housing crisis, we must simply build more housing. As much of it and as fast as possible, and of all types. The cheery acronym "YIMBY" is, of course, intentionally counterposed to "NIMBY", shorthand for "not in my backyard," an anti-development philosophy often used as a slur and which predates YIMBY by many years. New Homebuyers Face A Friendlier Housing Market, Thanks To Cooldown Boise State Public Radio Josh Lehner, an economist with the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, says that Murawski's experience in Portland is representative of what's been happening across the country - except the rise in the city's real estate prices was more intense. The growth trends in Portland over the last decade have been "supercharged, relative to the national trends," Lehner says. In part that's because of higher-than-average income growth. The pattern "is the exact same, it's just more pronounced," he says. 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