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<div><font size="2">Oct. 6: (The Oregonian) 1000 Friends of Oregon looking for next director, while Metro Council presidency attracts candidates</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/1000_friends_of_oregon_looking_1.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/1000_friends_of_oregon_looking_1.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Bob Stacey has stepped down as director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, the state's best known conservation group, and will seek election next year as president of the Metro Council…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 5: (The Oregonian) As Portland area makes growth decisions, small cities want their voices heard</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/as_portland_area_makes_growth.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/10/as_portland_area_makes_growth.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Portland's development issues get a lot of attention, but the region's smaller cities also have a stake in how the area grows. Troutdale Mayor Jim Kight reminded Metro officials of that point during a public hearing last week in Gresham…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 5: (Medford Mail Tribune) ‘A pretty cool little town’</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091005/NEWS/910050310"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091005/NEWS/910050310</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Quaint, quiet and surrounded by both history and wineries, Jacksonville is named one of the top 10 "Coolest Small Towns in America" in the October 2009 issue of Arthur Frommer's "Budget Travel" magazine…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 5: (Corvallis Gazette-Times) Council puts off OSU’s suggestions for changes to city historic preservation rules</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The Corvallis City Council decided Monday not to take up a list of changes proposed by Oregon State University concerning rules over historic preservation within the city's land development code…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 5: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Pace changes at Cedar Mill</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/05/pace-changes-at-cedar-mill/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/05/pace-changes-at-cedar-mill/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Washington County planners want the Cedar Mill area to look like a town’s main street, with buildings spilling out onto sidewalks, rather than a strip of parking lots…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 4: (San Francisco Chronicle) Push for LNG pipeline from Oregon’s Coos Bay</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/10/04/MNGM19SPCT.DTL"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/10/04/MNGM19SPCT.DTL</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Coos Bay snakes from the Pacific into the hilly Oregon coast, its waters sheltered from the ocean by a long, sandy spit…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 4: (East Oregonian) Floodplain revision causes trouble for Stanfield church</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Pastor Mike Kinlock of Crossroads Community Church in Stanfield is facing a new battle since the floodplain was revised…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 3: (Commentary, The Oregonian) Up vs. out: Multiple pieces in play for solving growth puzzle</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The idea of putting a million more people into a region you love can be unsettling or downright scary. Some of us don't even like it when a neighbor takes in a roommate or buys a third car…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 3: (East Oregonian) City mounts challenge to FEMA flood zone map</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=98600&TM=50635.62"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=98600&TM=50635.62</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The city of Milton-Freewater has bought some time for the taxpayers in what could be a flood zone of the Walla Walla River. In August the city challenged maps published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 1: (Portland Tribune) Price of growth: $10 billion: Metro looks for ways to pay for next wave of infrastructure</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">In recent years, Metro has convinced regional voters to increase their taxes millions of dollars to operate the Oregon Zoo, which it manages. Metro also has convinced voters to tax themselves millions of dollars to preserve thousands of
acres of open spaces throughout the region…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 1: (Editorial, Medford Mail Tribune) Hearings officer saw the cabins, not the trees</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091001/OPINION/910010320"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091001/OPINION/910010320</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The headline in Tuesday's newspaper read, "Ruling puts brakes on Hyatt resort expansion." The brakes were properly applied. It is unfortunate they were not applied sooner, and that the expansion was allowed to proceed in the first place…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 1: (Portland Tribune) Landslide still changing lives</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125434338207750700"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=125434338207750700</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Grass is now growing where the Hendricksons and Chous used to live. It’s been a year since an early morning Oct. 8 landslide destroyed their Hillsdale homes and endangered at least four others…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 1: (Roseburg News-Review) Costco to chip in before receiving permits</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910019996"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910019996</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Costco Wholesale will be required to contribute the $700,000 it agreed to put up for road improvements for its new north Roseburg store before it obtains building permits, according to an agreement between the company, Douglas County, the
city of Roseburg and the Oregon Department of Transportation…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oct. 1: (Roseburg News-Review) Mercy heliport landing pad approved</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910019980"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091001/NEWS/910019980</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Helicopters will be landing in the rear parking lot at Mercy Medical Center in the not-too-distant future…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 29: (AP, The Oregonian) Western states must make sure water is available before adding development, gov says</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/western_states_must_plan_futur.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/western_states_must_plan_futur.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">DENVER -- Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter says Western states must work together on water issues if the region is to continue to grow….</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 29: (The Oregonian) Urban planner says Portland's development holds lessons for other cities</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/urban_planner_says_portlands_o.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/09/urban_planner_says_portlands_o.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">We Portlanders can't help it. We want to know what other people are saying about us -- especially if it's flattering. Noted planning expert William Fulton has spent a lot of time looking at how we do things here and writes about it in the
<a href="http://www.cp-dr.com/"><u>California Planning and Development Report</u></a>. Among Fulton's observations…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 29: (The Oregonian) ODOT OKs $14.3 million in sidewalk, bike projects statewide</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/odot_oks_143_million_in_sidewa.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/odot_oks_143_million_in_sidewa.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The Oregon Transportation Commission recently approved 13 projects totaling $14.3 million statewide that are eligible for federal money aimed at sidewalks and historic preservation projects…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Sept. 25: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Don't sacrifice farmland for development dreams</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">A recent commentary by officials from the city of Cornelius implied that it can be a great little city only if it's allowed to expand its urban growth boundary ("Denying smaller cities the benefits of growth," Aug. 3)….</font></div>
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