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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"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2014/09/10/oregons-bicycle-pedestrian-plan-gets-update/15419317/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTM0NDM5MDcwMjU5MjcwNjQzMzEyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHB7JicayVA9EOqkFAhc0TouIaxxA"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Oregon's
bicycle, pedestrian plan gets update</span></a></span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Statesman Journal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">It's expected to be complete by December 2015, and will become part of the Oregon Transportation Plan, which also addresses aviation, rail, public ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/232903-96766-tell-metro-your-ideas-to-cut-greenhouse-gases&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTM0NDM5MDcwMjU5MjcwNjQzMzEyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNG_gmQaMzMF3OoWkfZ8fdlvm8JuWw"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Tell
Metro your ideas to cut greenhouse gases</span></a></span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Portland Tribune
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Working to help raise these funds is the Oregon Transportation Forum, a nonprofit membership association formed to encourage the full development, ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32134219-75/springfield-seeks-more-input-on-proposed-ugb-expansion.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSODkxMDYxMzg2ODAyMDE4NjAwMhoyNmM0NmI0MDcyMjljMTAwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNHXvKnvz7xyxhc2-jv30DDO26sYEA"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Springfield
shifts to slow on expansion</span></a></span></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Register-Guard
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">City officials have called a timeout as they mull the proposed expansion of Springfield's urban growth boundary to designate more ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/09/developer_mark_edlen_finalizin.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTMwMDk5MzMzMTU3NzI3MjU0NjIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFCkWcSZZ7yyh9Wdj8hCwrWNAsuwA"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Developer
Mark Edlen finalizing $2.6 million land deal with Portland Development Commission ...</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine occupies the southwest portion. ... for environmental and archaeological remediation needed on the land.<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2014/09/09/oregon-spotted-frog/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTOTMwMDk5MzMzMTU3NzI3MjU0NjIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEXvlmBF0sCCkUt1_kAhEDTWVr5eg"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">In
limbo since 1991, Oregon spotted frog finally gets protected status</span></a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Scientific American (blog)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon Zoo, for example, has spent the past 16 years monitoring ... (Critical habitat doesn't set aside land for conservation; instead, the process ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ktvz.com/news/walden-backs-bill-to-block-epa-rulemaking-expansion/27960306&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTIyMTQyMTA5MjgxMTQ1MDAxODIyGjdmMjhmMGIwYTI4YzEzMDk6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEEswdsKhtdZfAJjDfovK_q_HPwbw"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Walden
backs bill to block EPA rule-making expansion</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">KTVZ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">In what he termed "an effort to protect private property rights and farm and ranching jobs in rural Oregon," Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., voiced his strong ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140908006647/en/Ambre-Energy-Port-Morrow-File-Appeals-Oregon&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTE5MDM1MDA1NjIxMjAxMDU3NTIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFWYZtvTbToGXHuTbSfDyS_-vEj2w"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Ambre
Energy and Port of Morrow File Appeals Against Oregon Department of State Lands Permit ...</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Business Wire (press release)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Ambre Energy and the Port of Morrow in Boardman, Oregon have filed appeals against the permit decision ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2014/09/08/logging-industry-pushes-back-sen-wydens-bill/15312465/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTE5MDM1MDA1NjIxMjAxMDU3NTIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHdpfNmgGy09bgGnh42YPrrS-xIOA"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Logging
industry pushes back on Sen. Wyden's bill</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Statesman Journal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon and California Land Grant Act would divide 2.55 million acres of Oregon forest into two categories: protected (1.3 million acres) and open ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32130556-75/story.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTU3OTc0MTk2MjUwNDgxMjY0NDcyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHZNxov2tNoNy7PP7MajFNvXQME1g"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">LTD
nets more than $3.5 million for EmX-related projects</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Register-Guard
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon Transportation Commission approved late last month the prioritized list of projects funded through the state's ConnectOregon program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/sep/08/wyoming-appeals-oregons-denial-of-coal-port/"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Wyoming appeals Oregon’s
denial of coal port</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Columbian <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Wyoming is appealing Oregon's recent decision to deny an application to build a coal terminal at the Port of Morrow, on the Columbia River. Wyoming, the nation's largest coal-producer,
has been pressing for access to ports to export coal to Asia, but it has run into stiff opposition in the Northwest.<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.thechronicleonline.com/opinion/article_904b8422-376a-11e4-bf67-001a4bcf887a.html"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Port Westward rezoning
vital to the future</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Chronicle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">My husband and I are both fifth generation residents of Columbia County. Until we recently sold our businesses and retired, we had been involved in multi-generational family businesses
in Clatskanie for over four decades.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/meet-elf.html"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Meet the ELF: An American-built solar-powered trike</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Treehugger.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">I've taken one for a test-ride over at MNN but somehow, so far, we have yet to write about Organic Transit's ELF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2014/09/why-the-people-in-charge-of-transit-systems-should-be-required-to-actually-ride-transit/379931/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBioUMTc1MjU3NTM3NjgwNTUzNDUwMjQyGmUzYmVjMzFhMDliMjRjOTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEjX-pEOR_CNuOajLtvxIg6RXwIRQ"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Why
the people in charge of transit systems should be required to actually ride transit</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">CityLab <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#252525">"There are way too many people working on transit who don't actually ride ... a PC—and Spieler thinks the same should go for public transportation.<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.statesmanjournal.com/story/life/food/victor-panichkul/2014/09/05/grape-harvest-begins-vineyards-across-mid-valley/15145767/"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Grape
harvest begins at vineyards across mid-valley</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Statesman Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Fall may be in the air but things are heating up at vineyards across the Willamette Valley as harvest begins. So far, the weather is cooperating, unlike the torrential storms that hit
last year as remnants from a typhoon in the Pacific moved into the West Coast just as harvest was beginning.<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://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32084453-75/smaller-oregon-hazelnut-crop-to-boost-prices.html.csp"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Filbert
frenzy</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Register-Guard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">A forecasted 20 percent drop in the Oregon hazelnut harvest this year, coupled with a much smaller than usual crop out of Turkey - the world’s largest producer - means higher prices
and potentially new markets for Oregon hazelnut growers.<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.pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/232591-96617-friends-file-suit-to-protect-gorge-air-quality"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Friends file
suit to protect gorge air quality</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Portland Tribune
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Friends of the Columbia Gorge has filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality over an air pollution permit the state agency issued earlier this year for the
proposed Troutdale Energy Center at the former Reynolds Aluminum site in Troutdale.<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.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2014/09/07/new-environmental-tests-loom-riverfront-park-land/15230235/"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">New
environmental tests loom for Riverfront park land</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Statesman Journal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">The cost of buying land for a proposed expansion of Riverfront Park has just risen because of an underground pipe.<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.hoodrivernews.com/news/2014/sep/06/odot-submits-plans-new-historic-hwy-segment/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU5NjkyNzc2MzQzMTUwMjkxMTAyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNF9uJRBv1ooNzISfBaznvzHpptCbg"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">ODOT
submits plans for new Historic Hwy segment</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Hood River News <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon Department of Transportation has submitted plans to build a 1.2-mile section of bike and pedestrian trail that will roughly run from the ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://theworldlink.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/oregon-counties-feeling-financial-strain-today-from-years-of-o/article_4b829d2c-33a9-11e4-992b-001a4bcf887a.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzI3NjMzNzUyMDU3NDk3NTYwNzIaMGFlM2IxZjA5NzgwY2MxMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHvxgqCJWPnbCSJk63DVfvpDI5M9w"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Oregon
counties feeling financial strain today from years of O&C funding cuts</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">The Oregon and California Railroad Act of 1866 made land available to finish a railroad between Portland and San Francisco. The Oregon and ...<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://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/09/04/montana-coal-mine-deal-aims-to-boost-asian-exports/"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Montana coal mine deal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Coal companies announced an agreement Thursday to consolidate ownership of a Montana mine in a deal aimed at boosting exports of the fuel to Asia through ports on the U.S. West Coast.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32067386-75/south-eugene-land-sold-affordable-housing-planned.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCSoUMTAzMDU3NjEzOTMwNjM0Mjg4NDUyGmMyYjUyMDhmZGI0N2RlZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNG8WyToV9YuiwmLsw9C8rIAWVsZ5w"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Amazon
headwaters parcel changes ownership; affordable apartments planned</span></a> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Register-Guard
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">For nearly 15 years they fought Eugene City Hall, the state's land use system and their neighbors for the right to build housing in south Eugene near ...<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?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/232431-96785-oc-school-board-to-decide-on-location-for-transportation-facility-&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTY0MDY4MjczNTI3MDI1MTQzODEyGjg0MzBjMTJlMDdiNjhjMDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEytbUYdEO9aHowlbiWRYlSLimK_g"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">OC
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Handling the transportation for the schools of Oregon City School District is no small task. The current transportation facility, a former rural school at ...<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.citylab.com/design/2014/09/so-what-exactly-is-a-road-diet/379975/"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">So what exactly is a “road diet”?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="color:#252525">Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced an 18-month campaign to improve road safety across the country.
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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>
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