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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,
agency announcements and commentary on land use in Oregon and other states. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/docs/legislative/landusebills2017.pdf"><span style="text-decoration:none">DLCD Legislative Summary for Land Use</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Agency Update<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">During the 2017 legislative session, the legislature passed several bills that may require updates to local comprehensive plans and ordinances. The Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) has
highlighted the bills in this summary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.bendsource.com/bend/the-missing-jigsaw-piece/Content%3Foid%3D3716292&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTcwNTYzMjQ3MzM2OTAxNzA5MDUyGjEzMzhkOGYyZjY1YjFmNGE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHI9aPqrhaF-0qoPi1IK7olwZ4xMA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">The
Missing Jigsaw Piece </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Source Weekly (press release) (registration) (blog)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#222222">The State requires the City to have a comprehensive land-use plan, and higher-density—rather than sprawl—is preferred. Schueler points to the<a href="https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/tvt.cfm" target="_blank">
Vehicle Miles Traveled</a>, an index assessed by The U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Lowering VMT, often through high-density areas and transportation corridors, is the go-to method adopted in Bend.<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/5475128-151/bend-looking-at-affordable-housing-pilot-program&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTcwNTYzMjQ3MzM2OTAxNjg1NjMyGjJmNzcwMGUyMDliYjk2MGI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHPLwRwHMMmyzUszGfsH_WjfgD12g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Bend
looking at affordable housing pilot program </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Bend Bulletin <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">The Oregon Department of Land Conservation gave Bend permission late last year to eventually annex 2,380 acres around town, and it's unclear whether the department would be willing to let the
city bring in more land so soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.thenewsguard.com/news_paid/affordable-housing-assistance-on-the-way-but-more-must-be/article_184fe980-7241-11e7-a857-db63b0fa964a.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNDkzOTA4MDExOTI2NjIwNTcyNjIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGxYUNlYXbCaXksuX25bxnJ15ORDA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">AFFORDABLE
HOUSING: Assistance on the way, but more must be done </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The News Guard
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Lincoln City and Lincoln County continue to face an affordable housing challenge. “We have a sustainable housing issue,” State Rep. David Gomberg said.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222"><br>
</span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2017/07/27/oregon-public-transit-hits-the-brakes-infographic.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTcwNTYzMjQ3MzM2OTAxNjkwNjIyGjY4NTk1MTEzZWM0OTEwMGU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEJQUTDIStGue0WJyAAWDYyTasF2Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon
public transit hits the brakes (Infographic) </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Portland Business Journal
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Following a national trend, Portland's TriMet and other transit systems across Oregon are transporting fewer passengers. Seattle is one of the few major cities to keep building ridership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373"><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=http://klcc.org/post/oregon-lags-behind-wind-and-solar-energy&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTcwNTYzMjQ3MzM2OTAxNzA5ODQyGjc1MmFjMzdmZTEzOTNiZGU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHyn2cdRdJ8ItUrvcAZF5hc9Tr5Ug"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
Lags Behind in Wind and Solar Energy </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">KLCC FM Public Radio
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">A report issued by the Environment Oregon Research and Policy Center shows that despite rapid growth of renewable energy facilities in Oregon, the state still lags
behind the rest of the country in solar and wind energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://kval.com/news/local/one-less-spark-is-one-less-wildfire-fire-danger-restricts-logging-open-fires-smoking&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoUMTcwNTYzMjQ3MzM2OTAxNjk2NDAyGmZhZTc2OTM5MWJhODIxZjk6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNELBUZyq7L7UL4ULaHfzHdOmMCulA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">'One
less spark is one less wildfire': Fire danger restricts logging, open fires, smoking
</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">KVAL <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Fire</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525"> danger is high in the the Oregon Department of Forestry's South Cascade District. That includes parts of Eastern Lane County and Northern
Douglas County. When temperatures rise, so do restrictions on industrial operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.capitalpress.com/Oregon/20170724/water-plentiful-in-eastern-oregon-southwestern-idaho&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTUxMjg1MTYwOTU5MjU1NTU0NjIaNTIwNjQ3NjljYWI2ZjE3Yzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGkAr0ZSqTJyi6TOCAbwqOk36y7Nw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Water
plentiful in Eastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">Capital Press <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Record or near-record snowpack levels in basins around southwestern Idaho and Eastern Oregon have provided the region's farmers with a full supply of irrigation water this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://kbnd.com/kbnd-news/local-news-feed/314998&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTUxMjg1MTYwOTU5MjU1MzUwODIaMGI1MmU2MmI4NTI0MDgwMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHZOmSFkn5Xxq6-gHwRmJizDeGTKA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Input
Sought On Deschutes Basin Habitat Plan </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">KBND <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">I feel like a lot of the Deschutes Basin stakeholders are eager to see this go forward, and we're eager to hear their input." Moran adds, "I feel the long term restoration of the Deschutes River
is before us, and that’s exciting:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.corvallisadvocate.com/2017/oregon-coastal-ecologies-human-meets-nature/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDkzOTA4MDExOTI2NjIwNzE2MDIaNzJiZjhhMmJlOTk5Mjc2Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHdovyLGSLSGN7jgpsKsId4e2mvRw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
Coastal Ecologies: Where Human Meets Nature </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">The Corvallis Advocate
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Two years ago, Washington placed puffins on the state's endangered species list with only 2,958 birds counted. Oregon does not list puffins as an endangered species, nor a species of concern.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373"><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.planetizen.com/node/93943/marine-sanctuaries-not-safe-drilling&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDkzOTA4MDExOTI2NjIwODExNjIaYTI4ZTJkYWVjZWQwMTc4ZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH7Qv-I2xzc6SGLlOGAcJ687OOkfQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Marine
Sanctuaries Not Safe From Drilling </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">Planetizen
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">As it has already done with public lands, the Trump Administration is studying how to roll back environmental protections for the sake of the oil and gas industries. This time, marine sanctuaries
are the administration’s target.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><em><span lang="EN" style="color:blue;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539506529/mapping-coastal-flood-risk-lags-behind-sea-level-rise"><span style="text-decoration:none">Mapping Coastal Flood Risk Lags Behind
Sea Level Rise</span><span style="text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></em></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span class="ohs1"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt">NPR</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#444444">Sea levels are rising. Most people with property in hazardous areas – where the annual risk of a flood is one in a hundred or more – are required by law to buy federal flood insurance
from FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program. Future sea level rise – which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones – is not factored in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-06-reveals-america-vulnerable.html"><span style="text-decoration:none">New flood study reveals America's most vulnerable communities</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span class="ohs"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Phys.Org</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt">Floods are the natural disaster that kill the most people. They are also the most common natural disaster. As the threat of flooding increases worldwide, a group of scientists as LSU have gathered
valuable information on flood hazard, exposure and vulnerability in countries throughout the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7494/pdf"><span style="text-decoration:none">Reframing climate change assessments around risk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span class="ohs"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">environmentalresearchweb</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt">Climate change is increasingly being framed as a
<em><span style="color:#222222;font-weight:normal">risk</span></em> management problem, albeit a uniquely challenging one. It is characterized by multiple intersecting and uncertain future hazards to natural and human systems, that are expected to unfold over
a very large range of spatial and temporal scales, and whose probabilities may be difficult, or in some cases impossible, to quantify precisely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/public_employee_union_drops_pl.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTUxMjg1MTYwOTU5MjU1MzcxMjIaNjg1OTUxMTNlYzQ5MTAwZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGife2ITrSd2eauTd3Zg6hHwFOW8Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Public</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
employee union drops plan to oppose transportation deal </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#737373">OregonLive.com
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Leaders of Oregon's powerful public employee union said Monday that they will not try to overturn a transportation funding bill at the ballot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://taxfoundation.org/oregon-bike-tax/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMTUxMjg1MTYwOTU5MjU1NjcyODIaN2QxMTZkOWMxYTYyMTAyMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG2NwhGBvNeK7TgblspjcLssUOpug"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon's</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
New Bike Tax and the Future of Transportation Taxes </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Oregon's</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525"> new $5.3 billion transportation package includes an interesting wrinkle: a bicycle tax. Although it represents a minuscule share of
the new revenues adopted under House Bill 2017, the $15 excise tax undeniably captured the attention of cycling enthusiasts in Oregon and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="LandUseNews"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41390-skyrocketing-rents-in-california-signal-a-broader-us-housing-crisis&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNDkzOTA4MDExOTI2NjIwNjIwNDIaNDBkZThjMzE5ZWZlZmJlNTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGC3R-PHe8rq2x193FW63EhPo78LA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Skyrocketing
Rents in California Signal a Broader US Housing Crisis </span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="LandUseNews"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#252525">Skyrocketing Rents in California Signal a Broader US Housing Crisis. Since California's housing crisis is the most acute, the fight for rent control is heating up across the state.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">
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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.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Where-are-the-transit-deserts-in-Texas-11437081.php&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDkzOTA4MDExOTI2NjIwODk2OTIaNjg1OTUxMTNlYzQ5MTAwZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHpFsRQGC0dXnM9RTAuplKwaF2Uaw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Where
are the 'transit deserts' in Texas? </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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">In this photo: Jose Escobar sits at the bus stop near the Navigation Boulevard Esplanade. Even in a city as progressive as Portland, Oregon,
thousands live in transit desert neighbrohoods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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