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<div style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; "><font size="2">August 11: (Eugene Register-Guard) City proceeding with plan to expand growth boundary</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/18483702-41/story.csp"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/18483702-41/story.csp</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">JUNCTION CITY — Conflict between the city and property owners on the south end of town continues this week, as City Councilors move forward with a strategy that does not include the landowners who have been petitioning the city to allow
their property into its growing boundaries…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 11: (Bend Bulletin) Guidelines issued for development site</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090811/NEWS01/908110364/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090811/NEWS01/908110364/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Oregon’s Department of Human Services has issued guidelines for how developers of a proposed housing development west of Terrebonne should test for environmental problems…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 11: (Bend Bulletin) Thornburgh partners suing CEO and seeking his removal</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090811/NEWS01/908110394/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090811/NEWS01/908110394/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Partners in the proposed 1,970-acre Thornburgh resort west of Redmond are suing the destination resort’s manager and CEO Kameron DeLashmutt and his company for more than $5 million and seeking to push DeLashmutt out of his leadership position…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 10: (Editorial, Daily Astorian) Newport stuck with its vision</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=63197"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=63197</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Those who dismissed that there was any chance NOAA's 10-vessel research fleet would move its homeport from Seattle were wrong. Barring some last-minute political manipulation, it will go to Newport…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 10: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Public invited to learn about Boones Ferry Road traffic study</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/08/10/public-invited-to-learn-about-boones-ferry-road-traffic-study/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/08/10/public-invited-to-learn-about-boones-ferry-road-traffic-study/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The results of a traffic study performed on Boones Ferry Road by the city of Lake Oswego’s planning department will be revealed in a public meeting on Wednesday…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 10: (Polk County Itemizer-Observer) 99W corridor is concern</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.itemizerobserver.com/DIONews4.shtml"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.itemizerobserver.com/DIONews4.shtml</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">POLK COUNTY -- Patience is hard to come by if you've ever been among the drivers backed up for blocks behind the Highway 99W/Main Street intersection during rush hour…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 10: (Statesman Journal) Wind projects are generating interest</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090810/GREEN/908100335/1001/UPDATE"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20090810/GREEN/908100335/1001/UPDATE</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">An Independence company is hoping to make wind turbines a more common feature of the Willamette Valley landscape...</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 9: (The Oregonian) Portland-area cities behind in updates to sensitive land policies</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/08/portlandarea_cities_behind_in.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/08/portlandarea_cities_behind_in.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Portland and several other metro area cities are months -- even years -- behind complying with a January 2009 deadline set by Metro to update policies that protect environmentally sensitive lands…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 8: (Bend Bulletin) Planning a route to regional transit</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090810/NEWS0107/908100356/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090810/NEWS0107/908100356/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Central Oregon has several transit systems, but some local government leaders have begun to ask whether it would be best to have a single, district-wide system…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 8: (The Oregonian) Blurring the urban-rural line in Damascus</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/08/blurring_the_urbanrural_line.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/08/blurring_the_urbanrural_line.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">DAMASCUS -- Larry Thompson has always been ahead of everybody else. He stopped using pesticides and fungicides on his fruit, berries and vegetables years before organic became iconic…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 7: (Portland Tribune) No ‘urban reserve’ land added to Multnomah County planning map</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=124968761223602800"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=124968761223602800</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">A Multnomah County citizens advisory committee and county planning staff have recommended that little to no land in Multnomah County should be designated as “urban reserves”– candidates for inclusion inside the urban growth boundary over
the next four to five decades…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 7: (Hillsboro Argus) County: 33,800 acres for 550,000 people</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/1249669228109060.xml&coll=6"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/1249669228109060.xml&coll=6</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Washington County planners have proposed designating 33,800 acres of urban reserve in the area, while recommending that more than 108,000 acres be protected from development for the next half century…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 6: (Medford Mail Tribune) County backs problem-solving agreement</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090806/NEWS/908060324"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090806/NEWS/908060324</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">A nine-year effort that could add 8,800 acres to local cities for future growth reached a milestone Wednesday when Jackson County commissioners voted to sign off on a pivotal agreement even as they were warned about the possibility of an
appeal…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 6: (Daily Astorian) Computer models to guide development in downtown Astoria</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=63100"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=63100</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Is it a cat burglar? Is it Spider-Man? No, the person climbing up the front wall of the Fort George Brewery and Public House Monday morning was Brenton Christensen. The 22-year-old student intern was taking measurements…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 5: (The Oregonian) With light rail on the way, downtown Milwaukie due for a makeover</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/08/with_light_rail_on_the_way_dow.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/08/with_light_rail_on_the_way_dow.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">By the time the first TriMet light-rail train slides into downtown Milwaukie sometime in 2015, city leaders expect riders to see a dramatic new welcome mat to their city…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 5: (Guest Commentary, Eugene Register-Guard) Reform of land use law took a broad, cooperative effort</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/18135307-35/story.csp"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/18135307-35/story.csp</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">This week, I signed into law a major bipartisan accomplishment for Oregon’s 35-year-old land use planning program. House Bill 2229 builds on a unique part of what makes Oregon special for all of us…</font></div>
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August 5: (Editorial, Medford Mail Tribune) Two bright spots for downtown Medford</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090805/OPINION/908050313/-1/OPINION02"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090805/OPINION/908050313/-1/OPINION02</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The future of downtown Medford continues to look brighter. The first hopeful sign was the recent announcement that The Commons project is moving again after being suspended during the economic downturn. Now two more pieces of news bring
added reason for optimism…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">August 4: (Ashland Daily Tidings) Planners critique the City Council's vision and values</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090804/NEWS02/908040319/-1/NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090804/NEWS02/908040319/-1/NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">At least three Planning Commission members think the City Council's vision and values statements are too utopian and need more "grit."</font></div>
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