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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:green">Welcome to this week’s roundup of the Land Use News!
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Land Use News is an electronic news clipping service provided by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD). Land Use News emphasizes local reporting and commentary on land use in Oregon and other states. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/1929484-151/bend-will-hand-osu-cascades-site-plan-to-hearings&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNTg5OTE0NTgxNjUxNDA3Nzg4ODIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH7wqyWHgipb6008bDMmiKhQcImmQ"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Bend
will hand OSU-Cascades site plan to hearings officer</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Bend Bulletin <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">People can appeal the hearings officer's decision to the City Council, and then appeal the council's decision to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20140326/UPDATE/303270039/Mixed-reaction-from-public-funding-cut-pollution-program&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjg5MDMwMTUyMTE5NjQ0NzgzMDIaOTQzNWRjYmY2MmM1MzcxMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGdAD3IRtyS3am0-XxJcCPpw6FebA"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Mixed
reaction from public on funding cut to pollution program</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Statesman Journal
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">Are Oregon's waterways clogged with dairy manure, logging runoff and ... said Joelle Gore, acting chief of the NOAA's Coastal Programs Division.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2014/03/tigard_ballot_measure_34-210_h.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNjQxNTQ0NTI1NzE1MzgzMDc3NjIaODQzMGMxMmUwN2I2OGMwNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEMrrGnSFzL6B8i9bKznxGrlL1Eqg"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Tigard
Ballot Measure 34-210 has officially passed; city will now oppose high-capacity transit</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">The city will also have to reiterate that position in an annual letter to the governor, the Oregon Department of Transportation, TriMet, Metro, Washington ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2014/03/washington_county_commissioner_25.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY3OTEyMTM3MjUzNzA5ODQzMDYyGjI2YzQ2YjQwNzIyOWMxMDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFyDCAz2zrTowFCmrsUDRHm_ydQnw"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Washington
County commissioners to discuss next steps related to rural and urban reserves</span></a></span></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon House and Senate in the past month approved House Bill ... The bill would expand the urban growth boundary and set urban and rural ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/03/need_for_grand_bargan_not_evid.html"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Washington County 'grand
bargain' not evidence of land use system failure</span></a></span></span><span style="color:#363636"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#363636">The future of Oregon land use planning is in your hands. But some are trying to deny that future…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/03/oregon_needs_a_simpler_land-us.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTczMTI3MDg5NDU0MDU1OTAxODUyGmMyYjUyMDhmZGI0N2RlZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNE8BfMDLXnoeK3yyupoDQYzukm2ug"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Oregon
needs a simpler land-use system: Guest opinion</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon Legislature unanimously passed the historic land-use grand bargain bill because it was widely viewed that the state's celebrated growth ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://portlandtribune.com/pt/10-opinion/214159-72971-fighting-sprawl"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Fighting sprawl</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Portland Tribune</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Go to the intersection of Helvetia Road and West Union Road, north of U.S. Highway 26 in Washington County. Look around you…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2014/03/ballot_measure_continues_makin.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTk3OTc3ODI5NzM1ODE1NDMyOTIaODQzMGMxMmUwN2I2OGMwNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFcdQaUKNx3sMMzuqy0ngVMWKc5-g"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Ballot
measure continues making news, plus a fight over traffic light: Tigard, Tualatin, Sherwood ...</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals handed a victory earlier this month to Sherwood business owners who protested a Washington County ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/1905337-151/sage-grouse-could-change-central-oregon-range&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoTMTI4NzA1NTYzODg0OTcwMDYwMDIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGuuGEBxFyJl5ORIQAthtX6prcnuQ"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Sage
grouse could change Central Oregon range</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Bend Bulletin <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">Now McCormack, like many other Central Oregon ranchers, is worried an ... The rest is leased land, with about 58,000 acres leased from the BLM, ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2014/03/land_use_grand_bargain_a_bad_d.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTgzNTc5MDMxMTU4ODY5NDcxMTEyGmMyYjUyMDhmZGI0N2RlZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHgJ-Wg8T_NeFwpII7e0o46pOOktg"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Land
use grand bargain a bad deal for group planning development along Evergreen and Jackson ...</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">This is the first in an occasional series about Washington County residents and property affected by the land use grand bargain. Want to share your ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2014/03/the_land-use_grand_bargain_by.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTODk5MzMwMjM2NTU5NzQ2Nzk4MzIaYzJiNTIwOGZkYjQ3ZGVkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFrNhzKpVGEugmTcMP6QLhNs8TAXQ"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">The
land-use 'grand bargain': By the numbers and on the maps</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">Washington County staff and the Board of Commissioners are looking at the implications of the land-use “grand bargain,” a bill that would expand the ...<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"">Laura Lehman, AICP</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> | Land Use & Transportation Planner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Planning Services Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD"><span style="color:blue">www.oregon.gov/LCD</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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