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<DIV>Dec. 30: (Roseburg News-Review) Nonprofits board endorses Costco</DIV><A href="http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20081230/NEWS/812309968/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Nonprofits%20board%20endorses%20Costco">http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20081230/NEWS/812309968/1001/NONE&parentprofile=1055&title=Nonprofits%20board%20endorses%20Costco</A>
<DIV>By a split vote, the three-member governance committee of the nonprofits campus on Northeast Stephens Street has voted to endorse Costco Wholesale’s plans to build a store just south of the campus...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 30: (Medford Mail Tribune) Board reverses land-use decision</DIV>
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<DIV>Oregon churches could have more options for where they can build under a ruling from the state Land Use Board of Appeals on a Jackson County couple's request to establish a church on their rural ranch...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 30: (Bend Bulletin) County rezones former mine</DIV><A href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081230/NEWS01/812300390/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01">http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081230/NEWS01/812300390/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</A>
<DIV>The Deschutes County Commission voted unanimously Monday night to rezone a 556-acre surface mine and former hazardous waste site west of Terrebonne to allow residential development...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 28: (Editorial, McMinnville News-Register) City officials taking bum rap on 'preventing' Costco store</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.newsregister.com/article/23883-city-officials-taking-bum-rap-039preventing039-costco-store">http://www.newsregister.com/article/23883-city-officials-taking-bum-rap-039preventing039-costco-store</A></DIV>
<DIV>The city of McMinnville has been taking a beating in our Readers' Forum recently, accused of preventing Costco from locating in the community. We're compelled by common sense to come to its defense...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 27: (The Oregonian) Reinventing Estacada: from timber to manufacturing</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/reinventing_estacada_from_timb.html">http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/reinventing_estacada_from_timb.html</A></DIV>
<DIV>ESTACADA -- When Oregon's timber-dependent economy tanked in the early 1980s, few towns felt the blow more than Estacada. Log trucks that once rolled through town at the rate of one a minute all but disappeared...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 24: (South County Spotlight) St. Helens needs more commercial lands, less industrial</DIV><A href="http://www.spotlightnews.net/news/story.php?story_id=123014045771996300">http://www.spotlightnews.net/news/story.php?story_id=123014045771996300</A>
<DIV>A recently released analysis of St. Helens’ economic opportunities shows that, although the city is rolling in industrial lands, finding commercial land in this town is getting tougher every year...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 24: (Newport News-Times) <SPAN class=detailheadline>Meritage vacation rental appeal upheld by Newport council</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>The Newport City Council upheld a recent appeal filed by Dave and Toby Graham to protest a denial for a Type II Conditional Use Permit for vacation rental use of a townhouse in the Meritage development on NW Oceanview Drive...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 24: (Ontario Argus Observer) <SPAN class=headline>Ontario welcomes new planning and zoning chief</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2008/12/24/news/doc495284bd1d149852733308.txt">http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2008/12/24/news/doc495284bd1d149852733308.txt</A></DIV>
<DIV>Ontario — Though questions still surround the resignation of former Planning and Zoning Administrator Evan MacKenzie in September, a new planning and zoning administrator has emerged to take the reins...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 24: (Statesman Journal) Salem puts last details on golf course deal</DIV>
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<DIV>At a special Salem City Council meeting Tuesday, councilors addressed final details on a deal to buy nearly 40 acres of the former Battle Creek Golf Course...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 23: (Roseburg News-Review) Roseburg council approves UGB expansion</DIV>
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<DIV>Roseburg City Council member Steve Tuchscherer made another plea Monday night for his colleagues to reconsider a plan to expand the city’s Urban Growth Boundary by 1,358 acres...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 23: (Daily Astorian) Tongue Point purchase: Do the numbers add up?</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=56980">http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=56980</A></DIV>The prospect of buying North Tongue Point has captured the imaginations of Port of Astoria leaders, who see the industrial property as the key to future economic growth in Astoria...
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<DIV>Dec. 20: (The Oregonian) Fall in wood products market redirects environmentalist strategy</DIV>
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<DIV>You might guess environmental groups would be glad timber prices have collapsed to where loggers' chain saws have fallen silent and sawmills are shutting down...</DIV>
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<DIV>Dec. 18: (Daily Journal of Commerce) University of Portland acquires 35 acres along Willamette</DIV><A href="http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/12/18/UP-acquires-35-acres-along-Willamette">http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/12/18/UP-acquires-35-acres-along-Willamette</A>
<DIV>Thirty-five acres of property along the Willamette River now belong to the University of Portland. The university announced today that it has completed a $6 million transaction to purchase property adjacent to its campus from Triangle Park LLC...</DIV>
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