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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" 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
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 28: (Statesman Journal) Council OKs allowing hens in backyards</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100928/NEWS/9280341/1001"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100928/NEWS/9280341/1001</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Salem residents will in the not-too-distant future have the freedom to keep chickens — but not roosters — in their backyard...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 28: (Bend Bulletin) County looks at Deschutes Junction</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100928/NEWS01/9280388/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100928/NEWS01/9280388/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The Deschutes County Commission will discuss Wednesday whether to re-evaluate a previous county decision that limited commercial development at Deschutes Junction between Bend and Redmond, at the request of the county
Planning Commission and some property owners…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 27: (Portland Tribune) serted Sizzler space makes way for plaza</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128552613544273000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128552613544273000</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Metro and the Portland Development Commission plan on spending nearly $800,000 to turn a deserted restaurant across the street from the Oregon Convention Center into a landscaped plaza for convention-related and
public events…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 27: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Oregon questions its land use system</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/27/oregon-questions-its-land-use-system/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/27/oregon-questions-its-land-use-system/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Oregon has earned a reputation for maintaining one of the nation’s most extensive land use systems. But city, county and state officials all admit that the 37-year-old system, which has earned widespread admiration,
is far from perfect...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 25: (Coos Bay World) Preparing marine reserve proposals</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_f5cd7436-c86f-11df-ade6-001cc4c002e0.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_f5cd7436-c86f-11df-ade6-001cc4c002e0.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The public soon will get a chance to comment on three proposals for marine reserves and marine protected areas in the Cape Arago area…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 25: (Albany Democrat-Herald) Farm, forest lands protected, but not always for that use</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_cce57a70-c854-11df-8a69-001cc4c03286.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_cce57a70-c854-11df-8a69-001cc4c03286.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">CORVALLIS — More than 35 years after Oregon began one of the nation’s most ambitious land use planning programs, a new study suggests it’s still difficult to demonstrate that it has accomplished one of its primary
goals — protecting agricultural lands and a thriving forest, farm and ranching industry...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 25: (Albany Democrat-Herald) City seeks input on hazard plan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_2e6940bc-c853-11df-9146-001cc4c03286.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.democratherald.com/news/local/article_2e6940bc-c853-11df-9146-001cc4c03286.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The city of Albany is updating its Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan and the public is invited to review and comment on a draft during a meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, at Albany City Hall…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 24: (Dailj Journal of Commerce) PSU students tackle Northwest Portland site</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/24/psu-students-tackle-northwest-portland-site/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/24/psu-students-tackle-northwest-portland-site/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Hungry developers, city officials and property owners all have contributed ideas about how to transform Portland’s largest undeveloped urban site. Now, a group of six Portland State University graduate students have
come up with their own plan for the 22-acre...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 24: (Yamhill Valley News-Register) ODOT chooses by-pass route</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.newsregister.com/article/45576-odot+chooses+bypass+route"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.newsregister.com/article/45576-odot+chooses+bypass+route</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The Oregon Department of Transportation has officially adopted the route it had identified earlier as its preferred alternative for the four-lane, 11-mile Newberg-Dundee Bypass...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 23: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) The long view on land-use planning</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/09/the_long_view_on_land-use_plan.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/09/the_long_view_on_land-use_plan.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dismissing land-use appeals as a "colossal waste of resources," as Doug Montgomery, McMinnville's planning director, recently did in a story in The Oregonian, damns the public's interest...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 23: (Eugene Register-Guard) Marine mediations: Opinions on closing four coastal areas to fishing are mixed</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/25276349-35/reserves-marine-state-cape-fishing.csp"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/25276349-35/reserves-marine-state-cape-fishing.csp</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">NEWPORT — Paul Merz already has made his case against marine reserves in Oregon — at meeting after meeting, to the media, to the government, to anyone who’ll listen…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 22: (Klamath Falls Herald and News) Commissioners oppose sage grouse plan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_2c37fa98-c611-11df-86a6-001cc4c002e0.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_2c37fa98-c611-11df-86a6-001cc4c002e0.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The Klamath County Board of Commissioners officially opposed a state strategy to protect the greater sage grouse by closing large tracts of land to development in eastern Oregon…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 22: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Wilsonville gives cold shoulder to Cabela’s</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/22/wilsonville-gives-cold-shoulder-to-cabelas/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/22/wilsonville-gives-cold-shoulder-to-cabelas/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">In a time when municipalities are handing out fee breaks and property-tax waivers like candy on Halloween, one city is turning away a big-box retailer while following a plan adopted before the recession…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 22: (Bend Bulletin) Bend must shrink growth plan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100922/NEWS01/9220355/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100922/NEWS01/9220355/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">City of Bend officials should soon know what they need to do to get state approval for expanding the city’s urban growth boundary…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 21: (Coos Bay World) Coquille looks at raising development fee</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_77f4ce57-f35c-503f-90fb-b3a34f9a275f.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_77f4ce57-f35c-503f-90fb-b3a34f9a275f.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Black ink could appear on the budget and blue uniforms on the streets if the Coquille City Council acts on suggestions it received Monday night...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 21: (Daily Journal of Commerce) South Waterfront still lacking in services</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/21/south-waterfront-still-lacking-in-services/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/21/south-waterfront-still-lacking-in-services/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Portland’s South Waterfront neighborhood is continuing to grow. With the delivery of both The Matisse and The Mirabella, the former industrial site along the Willamette River now has eight residential high-rises
totaling nearly 1,800 units…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 8: (Guest Commentary, Daily Journal of Commerce) 5 potential problems with Portland’s urban growth boundary expansion</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/08/5-potential-problems-with-portlands-urban-growth-boundary-expansion/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/08/5-potential-problems-with-portlands-urban-growth-boundary-expansion/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">We may be forgiven for not noticing a report issued in the dog days of August from Metro Chief Operating Officer Michael Jordan recommending the addition of 2,658 acres to the Portland metropolitan urban growth boundary…</font></div>
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