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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
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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.planetizen.com/node/73805?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=02172015"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Bakersfield
Turns to Crowdfunding for Downtown Revitalization Plans</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%">Planetizen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here's an experiment worth watching: Bakersfield's Downtown Business Development Corporation (DBDC) has launched a crowdfunding website in the hopes of seeing its urban design
plans come to fruition.<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.oregonbusiness.com/must-reads/14610-zillow-racial-divide-in-us-housing-largely-unchanged-for-more-than-a-century"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Zillow:
Racial divide in US housing 'largely unchanged for more than a century'</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%">Oregon Business<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Real estate website Zillow released a study recently found that the racial gap in house ownership has maintained for over a century. In 1900, whites owned houses at a 28-percent-higher
rate than blacks; in 2014, the gap remains 28 percentage points.<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.laweekly.com/news/twitter-users-hate-public-transportation-5389802"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Twitter Users Hate
Public Transportation</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" style="line-height:13.5pt"><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%">L.A. Weekly<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">Riding the bus is no bed of roses. And Twitter users across the nation have made it be known that their hometown buses and light-rail
systems suck.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">A team led by Lisa Schweitzer, associate professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, analyzed 64,000 tweets to come up with a look at how well public transportation
ranks with the social media generation. The results were published in the Journal of the American Planning Association.<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.psmag.com/business-economics/night-school-failed-because-it-followed-law"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">How a Start-Up
That Wouldn't Break the Rules Was Forced to Fail</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%">Pacific Standard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Night School just wanted to provide a modest, low-cost bus service from San Francisco to the East Bay. Without expensive lobbyists and venture capital, the rule-abiding company
folded after hitting bureaucratic roadblocks. They did everything that Uber and its CEO Travis Kalanick didn't do. Night School aimed to provide late-night transit service between San Francisco and Oakland, supplementing the public bus and train services
that provide intermittent, if any, service after midnight<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.publicceo.com/2015/02/rezoning-los-angeles-can-we-legalize-a-walkable-city/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">ReZoning
Los Angeles: Can We Legalize a Walkable City?</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%">PublicCEO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The City of Los Angeles is facing one of the biggest changes to the way it looks and functions—it is fundamentally updating its zoning code for the first time since 1946. The
1946 code helped shape a postwar city of single-family subdivisions with a growing reliance on cars. Revised zoning rules can hopefully strengthen the ways that a 21st century Los Angeles is transforming and help residents build a city where walking is a convenient
and safe way to travel. Zoning is potentially our most powerful tool to create a more walkable Los Angeles.<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.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/20/387761011/have-big-box-superstores-helped-to-make-us-fat?sc=17?f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Have
Big-Box Superstores Helped To Make Us Fat?</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%">National Public Radio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“The study . . . found . . . that the density of restaurants and large-scale food retailers in particular areas was a major factor between 1990 and 2010 in the nationwide rise
of obesity . . . .”<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/2015/02/17/world/americas/drought-pushes-sao-paulo-brazil-toward-water-crisis.html?_r=1"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Taps
Start to Run Dry in Brazil’s Largest City: São Paulo Water Crisis Linked to Growth, Pollution and Deforestation</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"">As southeast Brazil grapples with its worst drought in nearly a century, a problem worsened by polluted rivers, deforestation and population growth, the largest reservoir system
serving São Paulo is near depletion. Many residents are already enduring sporadic water cutoffs, some going days without it. Officials say that drastic rationing may be needed, with water service provided only two days a week.<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-farmer-plows-new-ground-with-hemp/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Oregon farmer plows new
ground with hemp</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"">A Southern Oregon farmer is the first in the state to get a license to grow hemp.
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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.capitalpress.com/20150220/farm-regulators-ponder-marijuana-oversight&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTMTEzMjA3NDg5Mzk3NDc2MjgzMDIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFzuwyFh11raJwE_lHhVPC7u_wWcw"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Farm
regulators ponder marijuana oversight</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">Capital Press
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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">Marijuana legalization in Oregon has farm regulators pondering how ... Another uncertainty is how marijuana operations fit under Oregon's
land use ...<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/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2015/02/intel_map_shows_long-term_plan.html#incart_story_package"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Intel
map shows long-term plan for humongous Hillsboro expansion</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"">Five years of construction at Intel's Ronler Acres campus is due to wrap up this year, completing the biggest capital project in Oregon's history.<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/hillsboro/index.ssf/2015/02/out-of-state_data_centers_find.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Out-of-state
data centers find tax haven in Hillsboro, in exchange for a job or two</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"">Out-of-state companies have been building data centers in Hillsboro to take advantage of a state program giving them up to five years of property tax breaks worth millions
of dollars. In return, the companies promise job creation.<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.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2015/02/tax_changes_for_google_fiber_c.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Tax
cuts for Google Fiber, Comcast and data centers move forward in Oregon senate but cities object</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%">Portland Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A legislative committee signed off Thursday on changes to Oregon law that could resolve years of dispute over state taxes on telecommunications companies. Lawmakers hope the
bill would open the door for Google Fiber to bring its hyperfast Internet service to the Portland area and prompt Amazon and Apple to resume expansion of data centers they operate in central and eastern Oregon.<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://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32766757-75/call-center-employment-increases-locally.html.csp"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Answering
the call?</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%">Eugene Register-Guard
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call centers offer plenty of new jobs, but they have drawbacks<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.pamplinmedia.com/nbg/142-news/250855-120044-transportation-tax-debate-looms-in-oregon-legislature"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Transportation
tax debate looms in Oregon legislature</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 said recently Oregon is like every other state
and also like no other state when it comes to transportation.<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.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2015/02/oregon_mileage_tax_orego_websi.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Oregon
mileage tax officially named 'OReGO' as sign-up website goes live</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 pay-as-you-drive road usage tax has a long way to go before it replaces the increasingly problematic 30-cents-a-gallon state gas tax.<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.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2015/feb/20/bike-panel-shifts-high-gear/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBioTMzM3NTgyNTYxNzQ2MDY4NDc5ODIaN2QxMTZkOWMxYTYyMTAyMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHTQJaVD_y7IK081oHTwjAEJF-7mw"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Bike
panel shifts into high gear</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 Dalles Chronicle
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Assist with an update of the Transportation System Plan that was last ... the city public works department and the Oregon Department of Transportation.</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""><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://bikeportland.org/2015/02/21/swan-island-transportation-group-may-shut-doors-metro-funding-shifts-134814&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoUMTU4MjM5OTQ4NzI2NDI4MDAwNDYyGjdkMTE2ZDljMWE2MjEwMjE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGAQWqpKldRRxQzw4JtSUhQHF-T7Q"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Swan
Island transportation group may shut doors after Metro funding shifts</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">BikePortland.org
<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">... Washington Park but would be unable to market non-car transportation to the park, which includes the Oregon Zoo and other regional
destinations.<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.kval.com/news/local/Crosswalk-deaths-Main-Street-Springfield-293759021.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Deadly crash
happened at intersection with state-of-the-art crosswalk</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%">KVAL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A day after 3 children died crossing Main Street, Michael Quatier looked at the crosswalks and pedestrian signals and found himself at a loss. Three children who died Sunday
crossing Main Street aren't the first pedestrians to die on that stretch of road - or at that specific intersection.<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.hoodrivernews.com/news/2015/feb/18/gorge-commission-klickitat-county-sign-pact/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Gorge
Commission, Klickitat County sign pact</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%">Hood River News<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In a historic agreement — nearly 18 months in the making — Klickitat County will devote planning staff time to help the Columbia River Gorge Commission process land use applications
within its borders.<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.columbian.com/news/2015/feb/24/gorge-commission-faces-transition-at-critical-time/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Gorge
commission faces transition at 'critical time'</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%">Vancouver Columbian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Already facing a key juncture that will determine its financial future, the Columbia River Gorge Commission has reached another turning point. Executive Director Darren Nichols
recently announced that he's leaving the agency in April. He'll become associate director of the William D. Ruckelshaus Center, a public policy institute in Seattle.<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://registerguard.com/rg/business/32782842-63/reservoirs-proposed-to-store-energy.html.csp#.VOTUCNkmG0I.twitter"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Reservoirs
proposed to store 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%">Eugene Register-Guard
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-The Columbia River Gorge project would use wind energy to pump water that would later power turbines-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A small utility plans a $2.5 billion water reservoir system near Goldendale as a way to store energy generated by Columbia River Gorge wind farms.<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.argusobserver.com/news/users-brace-for-low-water/article_5ce631b0-b79c-11e4-8a1c-e75aba5b3812.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Users
brace for low water</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%">Ontario Argus Observer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The water year started out promising, with moisture throughout the month of December. January rains kept hopes alive that perhaps eastern Oregon would get the water it needs.<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.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/02/national_ocean_acidification_s.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">National
ocean acidification study finds Northwest among hardest-hit regions</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</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 Natural Resources Defense Council released a report today that won't come as a surprise to Northwest shellfish growers. Ocean acidification--a chemical imbalance in the
water caused by carbon dioxide emissions--is hitting the Northwest harder than other parts of the country.<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.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2015/02/23/oyster-industry-threatened-climate-change/23899309/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Oyster
industry threatened by climate change</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"">Ocean acidification threatens coastal economies in Oregon, Washington and 13 other states, a report published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes.<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/government-whistleblowers-say-klamath-irrigators-misusing-federal-funds/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Government
whistleblowers say Klamath irrigators misusing Federal funds</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"">Two government biologists say millions of dollars in federal funds intended to secure water for fish in the Klamath Basin were instead used to directly compensate local farmers
and ranchers. <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://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/251367-120238-land-use-plan-vote-comes-back-around&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTk4NDQxNzk0ODc1ODEzNTY2ODIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH-XmTgDjf2NZj0ZlfR7XtGfGbnQQ"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Land</span><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">-use
plan vote comes back around</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
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Ballots went out on Thursday for the Tuesday, March 10, special election, in which Damascus voters will again have their say on a resident-initiated comprehensive
land-use plan that was voted down last year.<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.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2015/02/bills_would_make_it_easier_for.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Bills
would allow Damascus to disincorporate with simple majority vote, enable residents to de-annex again</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"">A trio of bills introduced in the Oregon State House last week aim to see the city of Damascus disincorporated by the end of 2016, and make it easier for residents to individually
deannex in the meantime.<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.bendbulletin.com/business/2903152-151/skyline-forest-land-near-bend-sold&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTk4NDQxNzk0ODc1ODEzNTY2ODIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEeK16tpGpcan3mfI5ysJBB3o8zUw"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Skyline
Forest land near Bend sold</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
<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">“Skyline is the view that most of us in Central Oregon see every day,” said Brad Chalfant, executive director of the Land Trust. “It's
a very important ...<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.ktvz.com/news/report-13000-deschutes-co-homes-at-high-wildfire-risk/31509260"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Report:
13,000 Deschutes Co. homes at high wildfire risk</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%">KTVZ Bend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Fire-protection group launches 'Year of Living Less Dangerously'-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">According to data released Thursday by CoreLogic, nearly 900,000 single-family homes across 13 states in the western U.S., including nearly 13,000 in Deschutes County, are
currently designed at "High" or "Very High" risk for wildfire damage, representing a combined total reconstruction value estimated at more than $237 billion.<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/environment/2899295-151/oregon-might-lose-wildfire-insurance"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Oregon
might lose wildfire insurance</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"">Private timberland owners and the state officials charged with protecting those lands are both in the dark over how consecutive bad fire seasons will change the way Oregon
pays to fight catastrophic wildfires.<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.hermistonherald.com/hh/local-news/20150220/council-oks-agreement-with-port&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTOTk4NDQxNzk0ODc1ODEzNTY2ODIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFK-Fbp_7fK7uJyYlAxwEXPxxrgEg"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Council
OKs agreement with port</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">Hermiston Herald
<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">The city of Umatilla has no immediate plans for the land it agreed to ... The port appealed the decision to the Oregon Land Use Board
of Appeals, but ...<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://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/32792380-75/subdivision-planned-on-santa-clara-filbert-orchard.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBioTMjQ1MjgwMzQzNTM0MDI5OTMyMzIaOTBmOTM2MDA5MjBlNTRhMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGu-UJ3r4LXuu9YAX94e5tsjsZQtQ"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Subdivision
planned on land occupied by Santa Clara filbert orchard</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 Register-Guard
<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">Subdivision planned on land occupied by Santa Clara filbert orchard ... month by Lee and Bill Kloos, a Eugene land use attorney representing
him.<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://democratherald.com/corvallis/news/local/bike-path-plan-off-the-table/article_d6b90022-bc10-5f14-a0f8-b3368df69403.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Bike
path plan off the table</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%">Albany Democrat Herald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A controversial plan to build a bike path across farmland between Corvallis and Albany has been shelved, at least for now. On Thursday, two days after the Benton County Planning
Commission denied a conditional use permit for the project, county public works officials notified the Oregon Department of Transportation that they were withdrawing their request for a $2 million state grant to fund right-of-way acquisition and construction
for the next phase of the path.<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/blog/newsblog/portland-ranks-no-5-nationally-for-surging-rental-prices/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Portland
ranks no. 5 nationally for surging rental prices</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"">It’s getting harder and harder to maintain Portland’s unofficial tagline where young people go to retire. First, we find out that our city isn’t as youthful as we once thought,
and now you definitely need to be employed to afford to live here.<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.wweek.com/portland/blog-32875-more_jobs_are_moving_downtown_a_portland_think_tan.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">More
jobs are moving downtown: a Portland think tank finds an urban economic boom</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%">Willamette Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The jobs are moving downtown. U.S. cities such as Portland are seeing faster job growth in their downtowns than in the outer neighborhoods and suburbs, according to a report
released Tuesday by local think tank, City Observatory.<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.planetizen.com/node/73866?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=03022015"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Are
Home Prices in New Urbanist Neighborhoods More Resilient? Evidence from Metro Portland</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%">Planetizen/JPER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The question of what planners can do to create communities that are resilient to housing market downturns is receiving increasing attention. Previous cross sectional studies
indicate that New Urbanist homes command premiums compared to similar homes in traditional post-war subdivisions. A new article in JPER (free until March 15) by Hongwei Dong of California State University, Fresno, asks whether New Urbanist developments have
been more resilient in terms of recovering from the 2008 real estate crash.<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://theworldlink.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_fc56714d-879c-507d-9474-8970a85bbb0a.html#.VOtsVWcB418.twitter"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Coos
bay to endorse revitalize Main Street act</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"">-Restore Oregon executive director: Bill is investment in communities' history, not charity-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Joining leaders of other rural Oregon communities that need downtown restoration, Mayor Crystal Shoji has decided to endorse a state bill that would give property owners incentive
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County grants permits for truck stop</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">East 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">McLane said permits have gone before the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals four times since then, each time over objections raised by
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Rentals</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"">Vacation rentals in many Northwest communities are on the rise, thanks in part to websites like Airbnb. The number of short-term rental permits in Bend has increased from around
50 to more than 500 in the last five years. City-issued permits nearly doubled from 2013 to 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now, the city is struggling to balance the economic interests of tourism with neighborhood livability and to manage the challenges that come with vacation rentals that are
smack dab in the middle of residential areas.<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/travel/index.ssf/2015/02/cape_foulweather_lookout_build.html"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Cape Foulweather
look-out on Oregon Coast added to National Register of Historic Places</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"">The Look-Out on Cape Foulweather in Lincoln County is among Oregon's latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places, according to information provided by the Oregon
Parks and Recreation Department's Heritage Commission.<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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