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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;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-size:10.0pt;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"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/stayton/2015/01/28/habitat-conserved-north-santiam/22483309/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">More
habitat conserved on the North Santiam</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%">Salem Statesman Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Western Rivers Conservancy and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, in partnership with the Bonneville Power Administration and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife,
have completed Chahalpam, an assemblage of land that conserves an outstanding stretch of the lower North Santiam River, approximately three miles southwest of Stayton.<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.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/01/29/will-oregon-consumers-pay-clean-energy/22536277/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Will
Oregon consumers pay for clean energy?</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%">Salem Statesman Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Seventy-one percent of Oregon voters support moving the state away from coal power and into renewable energy over the next decade, a new Sierra Club poll shows.<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/pt/9-news/248875-117427-transportation-tax-debate-looms"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Transportation
tax debate looms</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"">As lawmakers consider how to pay for repairs and construction of highways and other projects, one advocate from a national group says Oregon is like every other state and
also like no other state when it comes to transportation.<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/pt/9-news/248954-117539-lawmakers-again-consider-sending-wes-on-a-longer-ride"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Lawmakers
again consider sending WES on a longer ride</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"">Should TriMets WES commuter rail become the Little Engine That Could Connect With Salem?<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.newrepublic.com/article/120909/barry-dillers-pier-55-park-how-money-changing-city-parks"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">America's
Billionaires Are Turning Public Parks Into Playgrounds for the Wealthy</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%">New Republic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There is no doubt that the urban comeback that we’ve witnessed over the last decade, especially in cities like Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Dallas, and New York, has been
fueled by the work of independent park managers—private-public partnerships that invite civic and business interests to help manage public spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.eastoregonian.com/eo/local-news/20150129/assessment-to-guide-restoration-on-birch-creek?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Assessment
to guide restoration on Birch Creek</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%">East Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-A technical team made up of groups around the county are working on an assessment and action plan for Birch Creek between Pendleton and Pilot Rock. A third of all Umatilla
Basin steelhead call creek home-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.capitalpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2015150129817&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Drier
winters in store for region, weatherman predicts</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%">Capital Press<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Weatherman Art Douglas returns to the Spokane Ag Expo. A changing weather pattern suggests drier winters, Douglas says.-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Pacific Northwest could be in for dry winters and wet springs as a long-term El Nio pattern develops, a weather expert says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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/248169-116514-former-county-employee-files-intent-for-wrongful-termination-claim"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Former
county employee files intent for wrongful termination claim</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%">Gresham Outlook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A former Multnomah County employee alleges that Commissioner Diane McKeel pressured his boss to terminate his position as a code enforcement officer after he tried to stop
land-use violations at a Corbett bed-and-breakfast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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.argusobserver.com/news/malheur-county-gets-regionally-significant-designation-in-oregon/article_b32621e0-a8a9-11e4-ac94-af65f0226313.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoUMTczMzE0MzU4NjkyMDYzMTA3MjMyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNH0_5-dyCWtODIbO15DLWjEHJYbEQ"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Malheur
County gets 'regionally significant' designation in Oregon</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">Ontario Argus Observer
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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">VALE—The state of Oregon has designated approximately 1,000 acres of industrial land in Malheur County as a Regionally Significant
Industrial Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20150130/north-coast-business-park-earns-state-designation"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">North
coast business park earns state designation</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><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%">Daily Astorian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-The state Economic Recovery Review Council designated the North Coast Business Park as a Regionally Significant Industrial Area, which gives the county several advantages
in its efforts to promote the development of industries on the site.-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Clatsop County North Coast Business Park, a 162-acre site in Warrenton, earned a special designation Wednesday from state economic development officials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://theworldlink.com/news/local/business/lng-it-s-both-if-and-when/article_fcc8ee42-5b37-55f2-a7b9-744e91d56414.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theworldlink%2Flocal+%28The+World+Local%29"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">LNG
it's both 'if' and 'when'</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%">Coos Bay World<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Veresen remains optimistic, but some energy experts question Jordan Cove-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">While Coos Bay waits for Jordan Cove to get the green light or the ax, there's a larger dilemma hanging over the United States' energy industry: How will the U.S. shale boom
impact LNG prices and supply on a global scale, and what if export terminals are doomed before they're even built?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-lng-foes-try-new-strategy-to-block-development/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Oregon LNG
foes try new strategy to block development</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%">Oregon Public Broadcasting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Southern Oregon communities along a proposed natural gas pipeline route are looking for creative ways to stop the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/20150130-noaa-epa-disapprove-oregons-coastal-nonpoint-pollution-program.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">NOAA,
EPA disapprove Oregon’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program</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%">NOAA News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NOAA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have disapproved the state of Oregon’s coastal nonpoint pollution control program because it does not sufficiently protect
salmon streams and landslide-prone areas from logging impacts or reduce runoff from forest roads built before 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/politics/most-americans-support-government-action-on-climate-change-poll-finds.html?_r=0"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Most
Republicans Say They Back Climate Action, Poll Finds</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%">New York Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An overwhelming majority of the American public, including half of Republicans, support government action to curb global warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York
Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/2831266-151/concrete-dam-gone-but-whychus-work-not-over?carousel=1"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Concrete
dam gone, but Whychus work not over</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%">Bend Bulletin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Footbridge replacement, channel filling set for this year-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The last concrete dam blocking Whychus Creek is gone, but more work remains along the creek upstream of Sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Late last summer, excavators tore apart the Pine Meadow Ranch dam along the creek as it parallels the road to Three Creek Lake.<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/2015/02/post_52.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTgwMDM1NTE1Nzg4MzUyMDI5MTIaMTMzOGQ4ZjJmNjViMWY0YTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHqwAfARaNXX4TC6hooew6djWnxcw"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Washington
County rebuffs charges of 'stacking the deck' as it moves to revamp 40-year-old citizen ...</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Portland Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">OSU, whose CPO program ties date to the early 1970s, said administering ... All local governments in Oregon are required under statewide
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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.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20150205/gearhart-denies-annexation-proposal&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTI1MDQxNzk3NzY3NjYyMzgzMzUyGjQxODRiZTE2N2UwNmNjYzI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGC3_oKme4ml49kZJtGhOsdG8Lk8A"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Gearhart
denies annexation proposal</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">Daily Astorian
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">To do that, Clatsop County and the city of Gearhart would have to apply to the state Department of Land Conservation and Development to extend the ...</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.bendbulletin.com/localstate/2844718-151/deschutes-county-provides-funds-for-sage-grouse-project&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ5OTA2Njk5NTQ0ODEwMjkwMjMyGjNmNmNhYzI4YjA0ZjBlYzY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGahxnsEmuiphHwwMZvRhTLyxx-ew"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Deschutes
County provides funds for sage grouse project</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">Bend Bulletin
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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">Deschutes County commissioners approved a $5,000 grant Monday to help landowners prepare for the likely federal listing of greater
sage grouse as ...<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/249153-117320-southwest-transit-plans-delayed-in-name-of-public-involvement&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBioSNzk0NzY3MTMyMjk2NjIzMTg5Mho5NmQzYjJkNGM2MGFkNjBhOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNHDelr2ZgSfWyJ0m72WpxX5XaSVIA"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Southwest
transit plans delayed in name of public involvement</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">The City Council delayed committing $650,000 to the Southwest Corridor Plan last week to ensure the public is fully involved in the
new second phase ...<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.kcby.com/news/local/Land-Use-Board-of-Appeals--290381251.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTUyOTUxNTE3NDE0MTA3MDYwNzQyGjkwZjkzNjAwOTIwZTU0YTE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEHL7iU2IoF3-3RStvi4dBtipDyTw"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">No.
Bend Council decision on land near Simpson Heights challenged</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">One year ago Simpson Heights residents were informed they might be getting some new neighbors, but a recent ruling by the Land Use
Board of ...<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://registerguard.com/rg/business/32706016-63/cemetery-owner-seeks-residential-zoning-for-part-of-his-eugene-property.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTA1MDg2MjAwMTE1NjQyMzE1MzYyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNG38yVRA69GxNQXvo3lqzetSpwpMA"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Cemetery
owner seeks rezoning</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">Eugene Register-Guard
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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">Carol Schirmer, president of Schirmer Satre Group, filed two land use applications with the city of Eugene in January for Rest-Haven
Memorial Park, ...<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://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32715866-75/willamalane-private-developer-consider-sharing-land-annexation-costs.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTA1MDg2MjAwMTE1NjQyMzE1MzYyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHk5VefteU2wWBFu3my8Fc11cOecg"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Willamalane
weighing land swap</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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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 Willamalane Park and Recreation District bought land last year at Jasper Road and 32nd Street to develop one of two trailheads
for the Mill Race ...<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://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32681218-75/construction-building-momentum.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTODgxNjg2MjAxOTgxNDU0MDI0MTIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGWPPuPhG-rTaC40hfXF8uYzazUhQ"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Construction:
Building momentum</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">Eugene Register-Guard
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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">Smaller builders, in particular, are finding it harder to get land, she said. ... including the national exposure stemming from the
University of 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="http://www.eastoregonian.com/eo/local-news/20150130/electric-cooperative-considering-solar-projects#.VM_JRdL9pgc.twitter"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Electric
cooperative considering solar projects</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%">East Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Umatilla Electric Cooperative is looking into developing one or more future solar projects as the utility anticipates shouldering greater investment in new renewable energy.
Under the state of Oregon’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, utilities that provide at least 3 percent of total retail electric sales must generate 25 percent of their electricity from qualifying renewable sources<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.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/usdot-report-gives-the-transportation-outlook-for-the-next-30-years/2015/02/02/28d10fb2-ab03-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Transportation
Department report gives the outlook for the next 30 years</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%">Washington Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Before diving into a thicket of transportation data and questions, a hefty new federal study makes a traffic projection that could get a chuckle, even from folks in Nebraska:
Omaha, the new Los Angeles. That’s by 2045, the study says, when traffic congestion in Omaha current population of 435,353 could be just as bad as it is in L.A. current population of 10 million.<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.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/02/on_marijuana_oregon_cities_ask.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">On
marijuana, Oregon cities ask for big rewrite of voter-approved legalization law</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 Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon's cities are asking state legislators for big changes in the marijuana legalization law approved by voters in November. A new bill introduced at the request of the League
of Oregon Cities would allow cities and counties to levy their own taxes on retail marijuana sales, something now prohibited under Measure 91.<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.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2015/02/03/salem-pot-meeting-less-regulation-hundreds-say/22783683/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Salem
pot meeting: less regulation is more, hundreds say</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%">Salem Statesman Journal</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Oregon Liquor Control Commission used brightly colored stickers and green, red and yellow cards to gauge hundreds of people's opinions on how it should regulate recreational
marijuana, which was passed by Oregon voters last November.<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.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/02/exploding_blueberry_industry_p.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Blueberry
industry's explosive growth prompts Oregon State University to bring northwest growers and rookies back to the classroom</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In winter, blueberry bushes stick barren purple branches into the gray sky. Throughout the Willamette Valley, the rows of purple sometimes go for acres. When the weather warms
up, those bushes bear tons of one of Oregon's best-selling fruits.<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 Department of Land Conservation and Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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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