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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green">Welcome to this week’s roundup of the Land Use News<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The links to copyrighted news stories in Land Use News are not archived by DLCD, and the archiving policies of these sources vary. The stories, if available, reside on the site of the original
news source. Please direct requests for archived stories, or permission to reprint them, to the original news source. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Past Land Use News weekly e-mails may be found here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/sbo/2014/08/oregon-officials-take-up-fight-against-using.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NDk1MDIwNDk2MjkwMjMzNzcyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFb76T-IQYFeHvbgwLp3C051vkekg"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">
officials take up fight against using public funds to subsidize coal, oil exports</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Portland Business Journal (blog)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">A coalition of 31 elected officials in Oregon is asking Gov. John Kitzhaber and the Oregon Transportation Commission to reject a plan
to award $7 ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://portlandtribune.com/go/42-news/229169-92237-commission-sounds-alarm-on-coal-oil-transport"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Commission
sounds alarm on coal, oil transport</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Portland Tribune<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Asks governors to assess risk to Columbia River Gorge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Columbia River Gorge Commission has passed a resolution against the transport of coal and crude oil through the Columbia River Gorge in Washington and Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2014/08/07/key-permit-oregon-coal-export-terminal-review/13746023/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTM5MTgxNjIwMjg2NDc3NTU5NjIaODQzMGMxMmUwN2I2OGMwNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG8PBIIHk5Gfpft-e1k6VWW00r_ag"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Key
permit for Oregon coal export terminal under review</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Statesman Journal
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Meanwhile, nearly 8,000 people have signed petitions asking the Oregon Transportation Commission not to approve nearly $7 million in tax-funded ...</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.hoodrivernews.com/news/2014/aug/02/friends-hrw-appeal-naito-ruling/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTYzMDM2MjYyMTYyMzg2MjU2NTkyGmMyYjUyMDhmZGI0N2RlZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEqVLiqzI_OMY4MHjmWomCblXej0A"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Friends
of HRW appeal Naito ruling</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Hood River News
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Earlier this month, the city planning commission heard arguments on the latest remand from the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA)
and ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2014/08/05/public-comment-sought-dairy-expansion/13646787/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Platt's
Oak Hill Dairy plans to expand</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Salem Statesman Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An Independence-area dairy plans to expand by about 50 percent, and the public is invited to comment on the environmental implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/happy-valley/index.ssf/2014/08/damascus_lawsuit_over_secessio.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Damascus
lawsuit over secession heads to Oregon Court of Appeals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">The Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The city of Damascus heads to court Wednesday to make the case that the Oregon Legislature stepped on the city councilors' rights to determine who lives in the city.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/229041-91497-boundary-change-hurts-rural-lifestyle&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoUMTI5MjAxNzMzOTcwNTI5MjEzMDIyGmMyYjUyMDhmZGI0N2RlZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNF_ClzrXbz-29xCPDvrpUcdhLwPmg"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Boundary
change hurts rural lifestyle</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Portland Tribune
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">They'd emailed the Washington County Department of Land Use and Transportation about a previous issue and the response mentioned their ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2014/08/rural_community_members_speak.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoSNDAwNDI2MDIxMjU3NDExODgyMhpjMmI1MjA4ZmRiNDdkZWQ0OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNHN-AIbQi6pZ6mmXNXGkOpADDRXwA"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Washington
County community members speak out about proposed land use ordinance at County ...</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">The Oregonian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Washington County Commissioners met Aug. 5 to cover ordinances concerning land use, transportation plans and farmers markets. (Kelsey ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/08/bus_tour_highlights_portlands.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNTg3OTEzMDY1NzA2ODc2NDY1MjIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGdr1C8E8tzBXvkqYQCHAlJ9wVdvg"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Bus
tour highlights Portland's dirty underbelly and hopes for a sustainable future</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">The Oregonian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">In 2008, Multnomah County, which took over the land after foreclosure, transferred it to the Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust
for use as a ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2014/08/portland_mayor_charlie_hales_w.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjMxMTM2MTQ1NTY4MTAyNTEzNDIaODQzMGMxMmUwN2I2OGMwNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGnmkYcNOtXRngjgDj2f__U_Rc_rQ"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Portland
Mayor Charlie Hales wants highway tolls: 5 takeaways from Oregon transportation forum ...</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">The Oregonian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Portland Mayor Charlie Hales talks about tolls on freeways, highways Portland Mayor Charlie Hales used a transportation forum sponsored
by U.S. ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/229310-92044-sources-say-lets-hear-it-for-taxes-and-wedded-commissioners&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU1NDk1MDIwNDk2MjkwMjMzNzcyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNF9GC_F7ZeQ8Ivv5JSD7J2tRM9tyg"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Sources
Say: Let's hear it for taxes and wedded commissioners</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Portland Tribune
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">The Forum on the Future of America's Transportation Infrastructure was ... the Oregon Business Association, and the Oregon Working
Families Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/229313-92430-hales-confident-street-fee-will-pass&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU1NDk1MDIwNDk2MjkwMjMzNzcyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNG4cYgr92BPAEljppCMHZsdFlDuhw"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Hales
confident street fee will pass</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Portland Tribune</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/31972646-75/water-cut-off-to-some-farms.html.csp"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Water
cut off to some farms</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Eugene Register-Guard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-The action results in the loss of irrigation on 50,000 acres in the Klamath Basin-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Irrigation water is being cut off to about a third of the farms on a federal irrigation project in the drought-parched Klamath Basin of Oregon and California.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://ijpr.org/post/should-controversial-southern-oregon-timber-harvest-become-regional-model&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjAxNDkwOTg5MTkzNTY0OTEzNjIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHO59sf_89wXyRAh-McVRdHbvCg5Q"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Should
Controversial Southern Oregon Timber Harvest Become Regional Model?</span></a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Jefferson Public Radio
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">A controversial method of logging is being tested on a Bureau of Land Management forest in Southern Oregon. The idea is to remove trees
in the ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/31932681-75/uo-seeks-real-world-solutions-via-sustainable-cities-initiative.html.csp"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">The
city fixers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-The UO seeks professors to make urban areas more sustainable-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Oregon faculty members who propose hiring four new "hot shot" professors who are experts in "sustainability" lack nothing when it comes to thinking big.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Settles With Angry Campers, Once Again. That'll Be $60K.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">The Portland Mercury (blog)
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highway money keeps flowing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon and other states narrowly averted a crash last week when both houses of Congress came up with a temporary fix to keep the federal highway fund solvent and the cash
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Underpasses Save More Than Animals</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.timescall.com/news_region-news/ci_26253844/boulder-county-controversial-marijuana-facility-fits-zoning-land&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoTOTg5ODY2MzI3MTY2NDY4NDY2ODIaYzJiNTIwOGZkYjQ3ZGVkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFo7R69QhyQvGLxGUkzkqhzSuB2RA"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Boulder
County won't block controversial marijuana facility</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Boulder County Land Use planner John Holste told the commissioners that the 7.91-acre property on which the medical marijuana center
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.spokesman.com/outdoors/stories/2014/aug/03/new-online-map-identifies-public-lands/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNDMyNTM2ODkyNTgxNTc5MzAwNTIaYzJiNTIwOGZkYjQ3ZGVkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFoUxK0oQPVBGKMaMhpQfRR4qJOFw"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">New
online map identifies public lands</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">The Spokesman Review
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">The public can search government-owned parcels by owner and principal land use. “This map will be very useful to people who want to
see what's ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/04/us/neighbors-say-barn-weddings-raise-a-rumpus.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Neighbors Say
Barn Weddings Raise a Rumpus</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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a preservationist, I feel it’s been a godsend for some of these barns to be saved like this,” Mr. Bruentrup said. “Some of them were beautiful old barns, and if it wasn’t for this to generate some income, they wouldn’t exist.”<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 Buhl, AICP, CNU-A</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 | Transportation & Growth Management<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Direct: (503) 934-0073 | Main: (503) 373-0050<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/TGM">www.oregon.gov/LCD/TGM</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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