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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!
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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" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20170620/advance-astoria-a-road-map-for-economic-development"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">Advance
Astoria a road map for economic development</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006621">Daily Astorian</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">The Astoria City Council took its first step toward approving a new five-year economic development strategy that hopes to create 200 high
wage jobs by 2021. The Advance Astoria plan promotes economic diversification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/5381477-151/cheatgrass-returns-to-central-oregon"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">Cheatgrass
returns to Central Oregon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006621">Bend Bulletin</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">With summer officially here, the invasive weed commonly known as cheatgrass is back and taller than ever, leaving federal and county forestry
official concerned that the outbreak could lead to more wildfires. The invasive grass has grown in thicken and taller this year due to the wetter winter and spring around Central Oregon.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.capitalpress.com/Livestock/20170620/grazing-can-reduce-wildfire-damage"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">Grazing
can reduce wildfire damage</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006621">Capital Press</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">A study showed that livestock grazing can affect fire behavior metrics and can be an effective tool in wildfire suppression…and land managers
are looking for ways to reduce potential fire damage. “Cattle can be a valuable tool.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.goodfruit.com/looking-ahead-to-the-northwest-cherry-season/"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">Thurlby:
Looking ahead to the Northwest </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#660099;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none">cherry</span></em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none"> season</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="ohs"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006621">Good Fruit Grower</span></span><span class="qgs"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">-</span></span><span class="f"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">May
19, 2017</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Growing degree-days are down this year. A year-to-year comparison of cumulative growing degree-days from January 1 to April 6 in several Northwest locations shows a downward trend.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/06/oregon_highway_funding_bill_th.html"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">Oregon
highway funding bill thrown into peril as deadline looms</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006621">OregonLive.com</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#555454;background:white">Failing to pass the proposal would mark the second time in two years that a transportation package has been drafted only to die without a vote, dealing a major blow to the agendas of Gov. Kate
Brown and other top Democrats.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/benton-has-lowest-unemployment-rate-in-state/article_9408e9f3-7cb2-5174-91c7-238d0fe8c0a0.html"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">Benton
has lowest unemployment rate in state</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006621">Corvallis Gazette Times</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Benton</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"> County's unemployment rate stayed the same at
2.8 percent in May — the lowest mark in the state, as usual, thanks in large part to the presence of Oregon State University. Meanwhile, across the Willamette River, Linn County’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.1 percent in May.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2017/06/21/portlands-laurelhurst-neighborhood-fights-to-keep-the-housing-crisis-out/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTA0ODI3MDcwOTQ0MTAwMjE1NTkyGjBmNzFmYWM4MGU4YWVmNGM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFt6Fk0lDvqdp4Vy3svx0Z3U9jE1g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Portland's
Laurelhurst Neighborhood Fights to Keep the Housing Crisis Out </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Willamette Week
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The residents of a quaint Portland neighborhood plan to ward off developers who could bring teardowns, McMansions or apartment buildings
for renters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/06/portlands_homeless_population.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjA4MzI0NjQwMTUwNzM2NDE2OTIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHUyPqhjDzJEkp3Qbgjxv25v_9sVA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Portland's
homeless population jumps nearly 10 percent, new count shows </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">OregonLive.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Homeless advocates and city and county leaders have warned that, despite more money and attention to the problem, the housing crisis is
still forcing people onto the streets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/06/oregons-hb-2007-would-preempt-cities-zoning-rights/528612/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTc0MTY0NjY5OTUyMTkyNzA4ODUyGjBmNzFmYWM4MGU4YWVmNGM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGJCRrS5RBuf4pVcT3lltNJkolSPA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
May Strip Portland of Its NIMBY Powers </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">CityLab
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">A controversial bill before the state legislature would preempt cities’ rights to prevent new affordable housing. People can't afford
to be poor in Portland, Oregon. ... citing the Oregon Home Builders Association's support for the legislation as a cause for concern.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/oregon-looks-to-help-logging-industry-with-countrys-tallest-wooden-high-rise/article/2626146&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTc4NzY5ODUzMDQ1MzE2NzMyMTIaYjNlMzFhMDQzODlhZjhlNjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFUmMowZulYNMCQbwHSX5Yyi5D8_Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
looks to help logging industry with country's tallest wooden high-rise </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Washington Examiner
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">"Oregon's forests are a tried and true resource that may again be the key to economic stability for rural Oregon, expanding opportunity
for communities hit hard by the decline of the natural resource economy,” Brown said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.kgw.com/news/local/central-coast/strange-glowing-sea-creature-filling-oregon-coast-waters/450312659&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjA4MzI0NjQwMTUwNzM2Mzg1NTIaMjVjYjA4Mjc1NWM2MDNjMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGSrQwYXrxYHQiphsKQTjuXrRUCCQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Glowing,
translucent pickle-looking creatures inundate Oregon Coast </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">kgw.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The ocean waters off the Oregon Coast are now full of strange looking creature called pyrosomes that set off a glow, according to National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials. Inside his NOAA research lab at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, oceanographer Rick Brodeur is studying the creatures.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/06/20/dallas-near-top-troubled-home-market-list&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjA4MzI0NjQwMTUwNzM2NDM4MzIaMDkwZGNkMjVjMTAwNDk3Mjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF62eeII9JYnOFG_8JM_szSopztjg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Dallas
near top of national troubled home market list, and five of the top 10 areas are in Texas
</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Dallas News (blog)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">"Regionally, the rankings show positive and healthy housing trends in more than 75 percent of MSAs, suggesting sustainable expansion during
the next year.” “:Home price growth has been near double digits for over five years in a row and has resulted in very low housing affordability.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.interest.co.nz/property/88401/how-san-francisco-building-affordable-housing-fast-catch-long-established-backlog&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTMjA4MzI0NjQwMTUwNzM2NDMyNjIaMzc3NjNhYThmZjZhYmM2Nzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEEOYvAbc7dFIPwX_xl4nOpPV6whA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">How
San Francisco is building affordable housing, fast, to catch up on a long-established backlog
</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Interest.co.nz
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">San Francisco practices SMART growth, which is an American ideal some of their cities adopt to create compact cities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.capitalpress.com/Orchards/20170620/california-sets-cherry-record-big-washington-crop-rolling"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#660099;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none">California
sets cherry record</span></em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">; </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#660099;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none">big Washington crop rolling</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="ohs"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#006621">Capital Press</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444;font-style:normal">California</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"> has <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">set</span></em> a <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">record</span></em> of
9.7 million 18-pound boxes of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">cherries</span></em> in a season just ending. The Pacific Northwest is just starting and could top its 23.2 million 20-pound box record of 2014.
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<h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/04/28/guacamole-costs-to-jump-as-avocado-shortage-sparks-record-prices/"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none">Guacamole
costs to jump as avocado shortage sparks </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#660099;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none">record</span></em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#660099;text-decoration:none"> prices</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Guacamole costs to jump as avocado shortage sparks <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">record</span></em> prices.
The price, which is subject to seasonal swings, is more than double what is was a year ago and the highest in data going back 19 years. Holy guacamole.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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