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<div><font color="#008000"><b>Welcome to the Land Use News e-mail list!</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Land Use News is an electronic news clipping service provided by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development. Land Use News emphasizes local reporting and commentary on land use in Oregon and other states. (Measure 49 articles
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 8: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Columbia River Crossing: Where's the debate?</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/columbia_river_crossing_wheres.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/09/columbia_river_crossing_wheres.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The Oregon Transportation Commission recently approved $30 million in additional money for the Columbia River Crossing, which brings the amount committed by Oregon and Washington to the project to $95 million…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 6: (The Oregonian) Clackamas County tackles long-range land-use planning</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/09/clackamas_county_tackles_longr.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2009/09/clackamas_county_tackles_longr.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">OREGON CITY -- How and where Clackamas County develops over the next half-century will be on the table Tuesday, when county commissioners open one of the most anticipated land-use hearings in years…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 5: (East Oregonian) Planners look to future of I-84 interchange</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=97403&TM=43207.1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=97403&TM=43207.1</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Planning is under way for future changes surrounding the I-84/U.S. 395 interchange in the center of Pendleton. The Public Advisory Committee held its second meeting last month where the Interchange Area Management Plan presented…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 5: (East Oregonian) Stanfield realizes quest for end to flood plain status</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=97401&TM=43433.06"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=97401&TM=43433.06</u></font></a><br>
<font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">It took 13 years, but FEMA has lifted the flood plain classification in the city of Stanfield, relieving the burden of flood insurance and opening the door for new business…</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 4: (The Oregonian) Density and mass transit can fight global warming, study says</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/density_and_mass_transit_can_f.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/density_and_mass_transit_can_f.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">If you want to fight global warming, one good way could be to live in a more compact neighborhood - with more neighbors and jobs close by, and where mass transit, biking and walking are accessible alternatives to the car…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 3: (Portland Tribune) Three views about growth preview debate ahead</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125192423978939700"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125192423978939700</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Portland residents’ perspectives about future growth vary according to geography, occupation and land-use philosophy. Here’s a look at the views of three people who have a lot at stake in the current “urban reserves” process…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 3: (Portland Tribune) Region tries to plot next urban areas</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125192425979429700"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125192425979429700</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">West Linn Mayor Patti Galle was livid in March when a citizens panel proposed designating the bucolic Stafford area an “urban reserve” – a rural area subject to city-style development in coming years…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 3: (Editorial, Daily Astorian) Prime farmland continues to vanish</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=63781"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=23&SubSectionID=392&ArticleID=63781</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">People who believe that Oregon's statewide land use planning is a Communist plot need to remember two things. 1. The legislation that created Oregon's process was largely promoted by Republican legislative leaders. 2. Concern for farm land
led to the land use discussion which culminated in Senate Bill 100 in 1973…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 2: (Portland Tribune) Urban reserves would ‘dismember’ farm industry</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125186412745304300"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125186412745304300</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">If Metro, Portland’s regional planning body, approves 33,800 acres of land as future urban growth areas, Washington County’s agricultural business will be “dismembered.” At least that’s what members of the Washington County Farm Bureau,
a coalition of 600 farming families, think…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 2: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Marion County temporarily waives fee for rural projects</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/09/02/marion-county-temporarily-waives-fee-for-rural-projects/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/09/02/marion-county-temporarily-waives-fee-for-rural-projects/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Builders in Marion County have received a break on system development charges for certain types of projects through February 2010…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 1: (Daily Astorian) LNG opponents appeal Clatsop County decision to state</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Opponents of the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas project filed notice Tuesday that they will appeal Clatsop County commissioners' recent approval of the Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas project…</font></div>
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