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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green">Welcome to the Land Use News e-mail list!</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">December 6:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/12/oregon_asks_feds_to_revoke_lic.html&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATACOAJAl6X69gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=uZYTkwpsKoc&usg=AFQjCNEmHZYTzEjeqsbniwjZiAenchiJIA"><span style="color:#1111CC">Oregon</span><span style="color:#1111CC">
asks feds to revoke license for Coos Bay LNG project</span></a> (OregonLive.com)<br>
In the application, they said they intended to ask FERC by mid 2012 to amend its license to cover a dual-use facility, with the capability to export gas to lucrative markets in Asia. In a motion filed with FERC Friday, lawyers with the Oregon ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20111206/OPINION/112060301/-1/NEWSMAP&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATADOANAl6X69gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=uZYTkwpsKoc&usg=AFQjCNEBgO3f9973XjvvNoLF7GjphUvg7g"><span style="color:#1111CC">Give
it a shot</span></a> (Mail Tribune)<br>
That means federal decisions potentially affect nearly half the land in the county. The Association of Oregon Counties already has agreements with the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to stay in communication regarding land-use issues. ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">December 5:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.registerguard.com/web/newslocalnews/27263495-41/county-opponents-applicants-conditions-darnielle.html.csp&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATAAOABAkoL19gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=DZ347rLmD98&usg=AFQjCNHYJiurCq97vzm5mrq4tFQQf2La3A"><span style="color:#1111CC">State
returns mine plan to county</span></a> (The Register-Guard)<br>
The state Land Use Board of Appeals said the 40 landowners and residents with Families for a Quarry-Free Neighborhood deserve a chance to join a hearing on the four-year-old proposal to mine land off Quaglia Road. Mining applicants Donald Overholser ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://gigaom.com/cleantech/a-conversation-with-zipcars-ceo-scott-griffith/&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATAFOAVAkoL19gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=DZ347rLmD98&usg=AFQjCNFUcu7AZtyJ9I-q5C7TuKJYTGdkLA"><span style="color:#1111CC">A
conversation with Zipcar's CEO Scott Griffith</span></a> (GigaOm)<br>
Many of them are still thinking about housing, land use, highways, bridges, and taxing gasoline like it's 1971 not 2011. It's time to build a bigger tent – we need to spin up a discussion on mobility policy, moving way beyond the silo of “highway” ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">OREGON, MONTANA, UTAH AND COLORADO PARTNER TO SHARE GIS DATA IN THE CLOUD (Government Technology)
<a href="http://www.govtech.com/technology/Oregon-Montana-Utah-and-Colorado-Partner-to-Share-GIS-Data-in-the-Cloud.html?elq=95ddcdbdbb01447f98f3ebe6e86cb5cd">
http://www.govtech.com/technology/Oregon-Montana-Utah-and-Colorado-Partner-to-Share-GIS-Data-in-the-Cloud.html?elq=95ddcdbdbb01447f98f3ebe6e86cb5cd</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon stores a vast amount of geospatial data, which will grow exponentially as the state finds new ways to use location-based information. Oregon CIO Dugan Petty hopes
to cut the cost of housing GIS data by joining with three other states in a joint cloud-based storage initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEW STATE FORESTER SETTLES INTO ROLE (Medford Mail Tribune)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Longtime forestry worker and author quite fond of history-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doug Decker isn't ready to write the next chapter in the book on the Oregon Department of Forestry just yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">December 4:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/apple-may-build-west-coast-data-center-near-newly-opened-facebook-server-farm/&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATAAOABAkt_v9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=nwxR7f20tmE&usg=AFQjCNGfAr3ZLYwgWhyXOcJqRWYm11Ph_A"><span style="color:#1111CC">Apple
may build West Coast data center near newly opened Facebook server farm</span></a> (Digitaltrends.com)<br>
Apple is reportedly weighing an option to purchase 160 acres of land in Oregon, located right near Facebook's recently established server farm, for use as a data center. Apple's newly launched iCloud service doesn't actually live in the clouds; ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">December 2:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20111202/NEWS/112020331/Developers-city-lose-appeal-about-Keizer-Station-site%3Fodyssey%3Dmod%257Cnewswell%257Ctext%257CNews%257Cs&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATAAOABAkZnl9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=aFY7EPbLxT0&usg=AFQjCNG5faqSsocRBR71UZuKO9TZsLkH7g"><span style="color:#1111CC">Developers,
city lose appeal about Keizer Station site</span></a> (Statesman Journal)<br>
The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday handed a defeat to developers and the city of Keizer, affirming an earlier decision for an undeveloped portion of Keizer Station. The court let stand an opinion and order issued by the Oregon Land Use Board of ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.oregonlive.com/aloha/index.ssf/2011/12/sewer_line_for_beavertons_45_c.html&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATACOAJAkZnl9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=aFY7EPbLxT0&usg=AFQjCNFX88W9bu8Nf-BpeVFHEOAUuXw5Wg"><span style="color:#1111CC">Sewer
line for Beaverton's 45 Central raises stink in Cedar Hills neighborhood</span></a> (OregonLive.com)<br>
No land-use rules ban the city from putting a sewer line through an unincorporated area, Roberts added. City officials said a project on Murray Boulevard would have been more expensive and taken longer to complete. City documents show that developers ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">December 1:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://keizertimes.com/%3Fp%3D11041&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATABOAFAmvbf9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=Cmg0KItZDlU&usg=AFQjCNEweSqu8j7bKGjPw5TDMfMZtV_XOQ"><span style="color:#1111CC">Court
upholds LUBA's Area C decision; city must reconsider development</span></a> (Keizertimes)<br>
By JASON COX The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld the state land use board's ruling that the city must reconsider its decision allowing the next phase of Keizer Station. The decision from the Land Use Board of Appeals was affirmed without opinion on ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/the-impact-of-grazing-dont-ask/&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATACOAJAmvbf9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=Cmg0KItZDlU&usg=AFQjCNHbLOBr-8g5b8wCtQRxARorHfpiBg"><span style="color:#1111CC">The
Impact of Grazing? Don't Ask</span></a> (New York Times)<br>
Grazing could be called the third rail of western land-use politics. The Interior Department has granted more than 20000 grazing allotments on more than 150 million acres of western lands. Bruce Babbitt, a former Interior secretary, went through a ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.kbnd.com/page.php%3Fpage_id%3D60247%26article_id%3D10755&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATAGOAZAmvbf9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=Cmg0KItZDlU&usg=AFQjCNGej8RUiP6fB-3ZHA1ruUvuCk1TBQ"><span style="color:#1111CC">John
Charles Has a Message for Oregon</span></a> (KBND)<br>
He has some ideas for turning around the State's economy: "One certainly has to be reforming state land use regulations to deal with the Urban Land cartels that we've created under the system through Urban Growth Boundaries and through massive rural ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.newsregister.com/article%3FarticleTitle%3Driverbend%2Beyes%2Bbigger%2Bberm%2Bto%2Badd%2Bcapacity--1322685683--2144--home-news&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATAKOApAmvbf9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=Cmg0KItZDlU&usg=AFQjCNGLeQyscVBNUims5AakKV4O0kw1Ng"><span style="color:#1111CC">Riverbend
eyes bigger berm to add capacity</span></a> (McMinnville News Register)<br>
That would give Houston-based Waste Management, which has been in a land-use battle over expansion plans since 2006, some new breathing room it said it badly needs. "What we know is that we need an interim plan while we go through that long term, ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.westlinntidings.com/news/story.php%3Fstory_id%3D132268440745187000&ct=ga&cad=CAEQAhgBIAAoATALOAtAmvbf9gRIAVAAWABiBWVuLVVT&cd=Cmg0KItZDlU&usg=AFQjCNEuesGXA-FWInWGYRLwgL2ME92cWA"><span style="color:#1111CC">A
world apart, but still the same</span></a> (West Linn Tidings)<br>
Despite opposition from neighbors and a staff recommendation of denial, a Clackamas County land use hearings officer approved a new compost and land mine site in Stafford. S&H Logging – a landscaping supply and recycling company that lies between Lake ...</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">OREGON OFFICIALS SAY AMBITIOUS PLANS TO STRAIGHTEN U.S. 20 FROM PHILOMATH TO EDDYVILLE HAVE FAILED (Portland Oregonian)
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Landslide mitigation efforts on the problem-plagued U.S. 20 realignment have failed. That's the word from the Oregon Department of Transportation, which posted the news
on the project website today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">JACKSON COUNTY LOOKS TO FLEX ITS MUSCLE AGAINST FEDS (Medford Mail Tribune)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Before Uncle Sam makes a land-use decision in Washington, D.C., affecting Jackson County residents, the county Board of Commissioners will be consulted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C61016"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2011/11/30/state-planning-process-too-slow-for-one-wave-energy-firm/">State planning process too slow for one wave energy firm</a>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Daily Journal of Commerce)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon has drawn a great deal of interest from burgeoning wave energy companies, but for at least one, the development of sea-ready technology outpaced the state’s planning
process. Aquamarine Power, a Scottish wave energy company, closed its one-person Newport office last month, citing the intensive, ongoing planning process that Oregon undertook in 2008. But that process ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Road on Hold</span></a> (KBND)<br>
The problem is, some Awbrey Butte homeowners in that area complained and filed an appeal to the State Land Use Board of Appeals. They have pollution and noise concerns. The City is backing off the road plans for now, but resident John Harper says the ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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study questions biofuels viability</span></a> (Sustainable Business Oregon)<br>
The study looked at fertilizer use, land use and carbon release due to farming in addition to transportation emissions. The report concluded US-produced biofuels would cost between 20 and 31 times more than energy efficiency improvements that would ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Lisa Howard</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> | Assistant to the Director</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">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>
</span><a href="mailto:lisa.howard@state.or.us"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue">lisa.howard@state.or.us</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> |
</span><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue">www.oregon.gov/LCD</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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