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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Oct 4:</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://naturalresourcereport.com/2010/10/epa-puts-at-risk-oregon-biomass/&ct=ga&cad=:s1:f2:v1:d1:i0:lt:e1:p1:t1286230186:&cd=4FPTUfFyNiQ&usg=AFQjCNGa4nzwbM1BZqPoxZP9R4tme4flKQ"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1111CC"><u>EPA
puts at risk Oregon biomass</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> (Natural Resource Report.com)<br>
</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>...</b></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> for keeping lands in forests and reducing the motivation for land conversion. In Oregon, the potential for new jobs in rural areas is especially great.
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20101004/news/310049996/wind-tides-hold-economic-potential-top-lab-chief-says&ct=ga&cad=:s1:f2:v1:d1:i0:lt:e12:p12:t1286230186:&cd=4FPTUfFyNiQ&usg=AFQjCNHCWJ_V_Iq-QxEbrSFMNEP4MZanZg"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1111CC"><u>Wind,
tides hold economic potential, top lab chief says</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> (Peninsula Daily News)<br>
Oregon is ahead of Washington state when it comes to renewable energy, and California has set the highest goal for that type of energy production on the </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>...</b></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Oct 2:</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/10/legal_tangles_stall_land-use_c.html&ct=ga&cad=:s1:f2:v0:d1:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1286042819:&cd=Lk9TXzyG38U&usg=AFQjCNGUsHfWIGgrSAYkQiabt-xD0wtSJQ"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1111CC"><u>Legal
tangles stall land-use claims in Clackamas County</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> (OregonLive.com)<br>
But like dozens of other Clackamas County residents trying to pursue claims under Oregon's Measure 49 property-rights law, Gilmore has hit a legal roadblock </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>...</b></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/10/candidates_for_metro_council_p_1.html&ct=ga&cad=:s1:f2:v1:d1:i0:lt:e0:p0:t1286057386:&cd=iAsFnFCYlJ8&usg=AFQjCNFjrQpr3GBHmYOTRxCaemae8gSM6w"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1111CC"><u>Candidates
for Metro Council president debate land-use, growth policies - and </u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1111CC"><u><b>...</b></u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> (OregonLive.com)<br>
They agreed on facets of the land-use planning role that Metro plays in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. At one point they asked each other to </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>...</b></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Oct 1:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">FEARS OF AN EARLY ECLIPSE (Portland Tribune) </font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128579295581531200"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128579295581531200</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">-Oregon bets big on solar and wind, but China may sweep it away-</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Portland is banking on solar and wind energy as a mother lode of green jobs, and Oregon is doling out tens of millions of dollars in state tax breaks to lure and nurture both industries. . .</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">PENTAGON OKS NEW OREGON AND WASHINGTON WIND FARMS DESPITE RADAR-INTERFERENCE CONCERNS (Portland Oregonian) <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/10/pentagon_oks_new_oregon_and_wa.html"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/10/pentagon_oks_new_oregon_and_wa.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Pentagon officials said this afternoon that they have approved eight Oregon and Washington wind-energy projects with 1,128 turbines after concluding that the risk of the turbines interfering with a military radar
station near Fossil is "manageable." . . .</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/connecting-eugene-to-try-new-tactics-with-riverfront-development-1.1660098&ct=ga&cad=:s1:f2:v1:d1:i0:lt:e2:p2:t1285970977:&cd=XZKiJCmHJIo&usg=AFQjCNHe73tcrY4VcoEZD95B5nAMvWchDQ"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1111CC"><u>Connecting
Eugene to try new tactics with Riverfront development</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> (Daily Emerald)<br>
During the summer, Connecting Eugene tried to appeal a Riverfront development permit extension with the city and the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals. </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>...</b></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2010/October/01/Local.News/odot.adopts.alternative.for.bypass/news.aspx&ct=ga&cad=:s1:f2:v1:d1:i0:lt:e6:p6:t1285970977:&cd=XZKiJCmHJIo&usg=AFQjCNHOWLlSiOy6rhlHoe1m3OLVNI3WrA"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1111CC"><u>ODOT
adopts alternative for bypass</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> (Newberg Graphic)<br>
Before construction begins, the state agency must complete Tier Two of the impact study and secure city and county land-use approvals. </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>...</b></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 30: (Bend Bulletin) Planners to reassess building at junction</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100930/NEWS0107/9300344/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100930/NEWS0107/9300344/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The Deschutes County Commission decided Wednesday to have county planners re-evaluate whether a hot-pink building at U.S. Highway 97 and Tumalo Road qualifies as a permanent residence…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept 30: (The World) State Wants Agency To Rule On Pipeline </font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_a007ffd0-6d4b-5d93-9ff3-ea526e475832.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.theworldlink.com/news/local/article_a007ffd0-6d4b-5d93-9ff3-ea526e475832.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Oregon's attorney general wants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to weigh in on a lawsuit Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline filed Aug. 27 against state officials in Oregon District Court. . .</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 29: (OPB News) DLCD Recommends Approval For Portland Area Growth Plan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://news.opb.org/article/14453-lcdc-recommends-approval-portland-area-growth-plan/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://news.opb.org/article/14453-lcdc-recommends-approval-portland-area-growth-plan/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Oregon’s land-use agency has recommended approving the Portland region’s controversial long-term plans for where to grow in the next 50 years…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 29: (The Oregonian) Portland region needs cohesive growth strategy, Metro says</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/09/portland_region_needs_cohesive.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/09/portland_region_needs_cohesive.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Michael Jordan, Metro’s chief operating officer, likes to say the Portland area is great at making land-use plans. But it's time, he says, to move from being the best planned place to being the best place…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 29: (Bend Bulletin) No one’s happy with this decision</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100929/NEWS01/9290378/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100929/NEWS01/9290378/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">A move earlier this month by Jefferson County commissioners to allow a group of landowners to build more than a dozen 850-square-foot fishing accommodations on their property, which sits near the Metolius River on
Lake Billy Chinook, has everyone involved — including the landowners — appealing the commission’s decision…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 29: (Bend Bulletin) Farmland wedding dispute goes on</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100929/NEWS01/9290375/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100929/NEWS01/9290375/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">A Redmond woman who has rented out her farmland for weddings wants to restart the process to legalize the practice in Deschutes County, and she is asking the county to waive a $10,000 land use fee…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 29: (Eugene Register-Guard) Turbine project stirs up protests | An opposition group forms in Oregon’s Grande Ronde Valley over a wind farm</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/25345649-35/wind-valley-turbines-wilkinson-county.csp"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/sevendays/25345649-35/wind-valley-turbines-wilkinson-county.csp</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">TELOCASET — A storm is brewing in the Grande Ronde Valley, and it’s about to get windier. After the success of its Elkhorn Valley wind farm project near the tiny community of Telocaset, developer Horizon Wind is
looking to add as many as 164 turbines to the foothills of this windy valley. But the 475-foot-tall turbines have divided the sparsely populated county…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 28: (The Oregonian) State recommends approval of Portland area's long-term growth plan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/09/state_recommends_approval_of_p.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/09/state_recommends_approval_of_p.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The Portland area's unprecedented attempt to make long-term land-use designations has passed its first test. The state Department of Land Conservation and Development recommended approval Tuesday of the urban and
rural "reserves" adopted this summer by Metro and its tri-county partners…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 28: (Portland Tribune) State land-use staff gives thumbs-up to Metro reserves plan</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128571995058170200"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=128571995058170200</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Staff of the state Land Conservation and Development Commission has recommended that the panel approve Metro’s designation of urban and rural reserves in the Portland area…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 28: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Recommendations approved for CRC project</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/28/crc-project-moves-forward/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/09/28/crc-project-moves-forward/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Oregon and Washington’s departments of transportation have given the thumbs up on recommendations made by an independent review panel for the Columbia River Crossing project. The DOTs told project leaders they may
move forward with final planning for the multibillion-dollar bridge project…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 28: (Roseburg News-Review) Roseburg roundabout may cost more</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20100928/NEWS/100929786/1001&parentprofile=1055"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20100928/NEWS/100929786/1001&parentprofile=1055</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">A roundabout to keep motorists streaming to the Roseburg Costco from getting caught in gridlock will cost “much more” than the $1.2 million the city expected…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Sept. 23: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Sensitive lands initiative looms</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/metro_news/story.php?story_id=128519535415483400"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/metro_news/story.php?story_id=128519535415483400</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The city of Lake Oswego is weighing the legality of a proposed ballot initiative aiming to change the way protections are placed on environmentally sensitive lands…</font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><b>Lisa Howard</b> | Assistant to the Director</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Director's Office<br>
Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development<br>
635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540<br>
Office: (503) 373-0050 ext. 271 | Cell: (503) 383-8911 | Fax: (503) 378-5518<br>
<a href="mailto:lisa.howard@state.or.us"><font color="#0000FF"><u>lisa.howard@state.or.us</u></font></a> | <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD"><font color="#0000FF"><u>www.oregon.gov/LCD</u></font></a> </font></div>
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