From sadie.carney at state.or.us Sat Jun 29 12:54:34 2019 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:54:34 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News: June 29, 2019 Message-ID: <26b5b8fe44264586a0ceab7555e0d103@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. ________________________________ Lawmakers tweak farmland protections during session Capital Press It will be easier to build a brewery but harder to organize an outdoor festival on Oregon farmland under land use changes the Legislature approved in 2019. Lawmakers passed a bevy of bills tweaking the statewide land use planning system this year that have implications for development of farm and forest lands. Special report: Fast-growing Sisters faces challenges KTVZ SISTERS, Ore. - Population growth is nothing new to Central Oregon, and Sisters is one of the places feeling those growing pains. The city is home to more than 2,700 people -- and counting. In the past 18 years, the city has seen roughly 1,800 more people move into the city limits. That's 184% growth How a Fight Over Climate Change Led to an Escape, Secret Cabins and a Hunt The New York Times SALEM, Ore. - One by one, Oregon's 11 Senate Republicans fled their state with little more than spare underwear and their passports. So it went in Oregon over the past week as a battle over a climate-change ... At the same time, rural Oregon, centered around agriculture and timber ... Federal Judge To Decide Hammonds' Access To Oregon Public Grazing Lands OPB News A federal judge in Portland is set to hear testimony from witnesses on Friday about whether to allow a controversial ranching family in Harney County, who was at the heart of the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, to graze its cattle on certain public lands. Fire season approaches in the Northwest Daily Astorian Fire season in Clatsop County will begin on Monday. The Oregon Department of Forestry says both public and private lands face potential fire hazard. A countywide burn ban will be in effect. Burn barrels will require a burn permit, which people can get through the Department of Forestry and some local fire departments. The Pacific Northwest has been struck by lightning 4000 times this week, sparking 32 fires seattlepi.com Between Wednesday and Thursday, over 4,000 lightning strikes have hit Washington and Oregon, according to the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center (NWCC). Those strikes sparked at least 32 wildfires in Washington and Oregon between 8 a.m. on Wednesday, June 26 and 8 a.m. on Thursday, June 27. Most of the fires were recorded in Oregon, which saw at least 205 acres burn this week. The largest fire ignited by lightning this week was the Days Coffee fire, which has burned 140 acres in southwest Oregon. Pendleton considers urban renewal program for blighted homes East Oregonian PENDLETON - The Pendleton Development Commission could soon get into the home improvement business. On behalf of the commission, Kaitlyn Cook, an associate from the University of Oregon's Resource Assistance for Rural Environments program, studied downtown blight and presented the results at a commission meeting on Tuesday. As cities rethink single-family zoning, traditional ideas of the American Dream are challenged Frederick News Post In a dramatic move aimed at addressing the city's lack of affordable housing, the Minneapolis City Council in December approved a plan, which, among other things, effectively eliminates single-family zoning. Under the plan, called Minneapolis 2040, duplexes or triplexes are now welcomed on lots previously allowing just one home, with no requirement to add additional parking. Legislators push to repeal tsunami zone building law The News Guard Over the next 50 years, experts say there is a 30 percent chance of Oregon experiencing a 9.0 magnitude-plus Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, otherwise known as the 'big one.' It has been argued by several Oregon emergency managers that essential services should be located above the tsunami inundation zones to be able to respond to a disaster rather that being destroyed by one. But the coastal legislators say residents and visitors know and are willing to accept the risks and consequences of a natural disaster. Southern Oregon Turns Out To Weigh In On Controversial LNG Project KLCC FM Public Radio A previous incarnation of the LNG project was denied under the Obama administration a couple of years back - before it was resubmitted for federal reconsideration after the more industry-friendly presidency of Donald Trump began in 2017. Jordan Cove backers should know by early 2020 whether their latest push to get the project approved will be successful. "It's been a long road. We've been involved in this for 14 years, and 14 years is too long to put any landowner with the threat of eminent domain on our property," Deb Evans, a landowner along the pipeline route in Klamath County, said at a rally against the project before the hearing. EDITORIAL: Malheur County officials need to act quick to save rail project malheurenterprise.com EDITORIAL: For months, county officials worked to convince the state to hand over $26 million in public money. The county's economic development operation has often resorted to rosy claims instead of hard facts to make the case. If that poor work results in no deal, the county's agriculture industry and the community will be the losers. Consultants and state officials for months have questioned plans for the Treasure Valley Reload Center. They have virtually begged for Malheur County to come up with answers. They have received precious few. They are giving the county one last chance. PROGRESS: John Day embarks on ambitious project Blue Mountain Eagle Two years ago, the city of John Day embarked on an ambitious project - to purchase and restore the Oregon Pine mill site to create a home for our new wastewater treatment plant. But it wasn't just any old site. It was the gateway to our city. And it wasn't just any old treatment plant. It was a reclaimed water facility that would allow us to harvest and reuse 100% of our solid and liquid waste, turning an environmental liability into an economic asset. Oregon House approves millions for Salem-area projects, waiting on Senate Statesman Journal The Oregon House passed several end-of-session bond authorization bills Wednesday that would provide funding for Salem-area projects, from better water treatment to the renovation of two historic Oregon State Fair buildings to an amphitheater at Salem's Riverfront Park. Sen. Wyden introduces bill to expand disaster relief to fisheries harmed by tariffs The News Guard Currently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) guidelines used to identify the causes of fishery disasters does not explicitly include tariffs. Wyden's bill would amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Act to require NOAA to evaluate the impacts of duties imposed on American seafood, ensuring the Department of Commerce receives a complete overview of factors affecting a fishery in all fishery disaster declaration designations. How Rogue Republicans Killed Oregon's Climate-Change Bill The New Yorker Early Tuesday morning, in Oregon, Shilpa Joshi, the coalition director of Renew Oregon, a clean-energy advocacy organization, rented a minivan from a lot on the outskirts of Portland, picked up a group of high-school students, and headed for the state capitol building, in Salem, where they'd be staging a protest. She was anxious and deeply concerned. "This might be a really sad day for us," she said, en route. [cid:image002.jpg at 01D52E79.CD16C640] Sadie K Carney Policy Analyst & Communications Manager | Director's Office Oregon Department 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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