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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"><a name="_MailEndCompose">The Land Conservation and Development Commission has set the 2018 meeting dates and locations. Please note dates and locations are subject to change.</a><o:p></o:p></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/earthquakes/index.ssf/2017/10/how_will_really_big_one_earthq.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNjk4MzIaNTM0OWRhZDRjYTVjYmU4NTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEIm3OP-KJar0FwGW6Y4bM5VyOWpg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">How
will 'Really Big One' earthquake shake out? Researchers run 50 simulations </span>
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<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">A University of Washington research project simulates 50 ways an earthquake of epic proportions -- dubbed "The Really Big One" -- could
shake out in the Northwest.<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/travel/index.ssf/2017/10/stub_stewart_campground_trails.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNjU2NzIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHUoOhbPPI1-8y_o8PnbBoyoMUCbg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Stub
Stewart campground, trails and disc golf course will close temporarily </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">The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department converted the land into a mixed-use park, opening it to the public in 2007. Since then, the
many miles of trails have become popular among hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians. The closure is due to a logging project in the park.<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/shortage-of-christmas-trees-expected-this-holiday-season/485785370&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNzAyMDIaNDNhN2ZmN2FhMTZiMmUzMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNERIS9AoA94nvgEaIhImT7rtff3-A"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Shortage
of Christmas trees expected this holiday season </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 Oregon Department of Agriculture also reports that the number of licensed Christmas tree growers in the state has declined over recent
years.<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.statesmanjournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2017/10/19/chetco-bar-far-may-slow-spread-sudden-oak-death-oregon-tanoaks/779345001/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMzAzMDIaNDNhN2ZmN2FhMTZiMmUzMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHeOabqlHFXzGmljCo0hwnEjdr3rQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Chetco
Bar Fire may slow spread of sudden oak death in Oregon tanoaks </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">Statesman Journal
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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 U.S. Department of Agriculture has quarantined part of Oregon's south coat to keep the disease contained. “If you have tanoak affected
in an infected area, you try to remove the tanoak by cutting and piling and burning,” said Steve Boyer, with the U.S. Forest Service in Gold Beach, Oregon.<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.thechronicleonline.com/news_paid/council-approves-branding-wayfinding-master-plan/article_44e66014-b9c7-11e7-b54a-5bc27f065818.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNTk2NjIaMjFhYzg4MWE4MDVmOWQxMjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGXzjUC64I69rCqi-EExKXNkedUCQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Council
approves Branding & Wayfinding Master Plan </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">St. Helens Chronicle
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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 plan was funded through a $40,000 grant awarded to the city through the 2016-2017 Travel Oregon Matching Grants Program, which the
city matched with funds garnered from the motel/hotel tax, bringing the total to $80,000.<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.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20171025/astoria-ferry-project-back-off-the-rocks&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNTk2NjIaMjFhYzg4MWE4MDVmOWQxMjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGcCeW79G1ddhNLHNHPLUSdky967Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Astoria
Ferry Group project back off the rocks </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">Daily Astorian
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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 board member on the Oregon Coast Visitors Association, she has reached out to the state's tourism agency Travel Oregon and said the
group has shown interest in supporting the development of the ferry as a sustainable tourist attraction. “One of the challenges that local people and even visitors in this area have is the ability to get on the Columbia River,” Quinn said. “And that really
defines us. We’re a river town.”<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.capitalpress.com/Oregon/20171025/willamette-valley-farmers-will-face-water-challenges&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNTkyOTIaMmQwYWIzZDljOTk1ZWZhMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHVvedNPuJJyR_3e5Tyd4XZmnsdCg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Willamette
Valley farmers will face water challenges </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">Capital Press
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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 study by Oregon State University examines water supply and demand in the basin the by year 2100. By the turn of the century, farmers
in Oregon’s Willamette Valley will be planting earlier and will begin irrigating about two weeks sooner than they do now, according to an Oregon State university study.<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=http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/376458-262218-board-considers-housing-finance-options&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNDE2MzIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFetBEbRjIjCZ2YWlRvYrp30H_OlQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Board
considers housing finance options </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">Portland Tribune
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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">"We have to do something about affordable housing," Commissioner Bob Terry said. Bend was the first in Oregon to levy such a tax, which
is .3 percent of the building-permit balutation of residential, commercial and industrial development.<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.oregonbusiness.com/article/item/18058-the-bus-is-back-eugene-expands-its-emerald-express-bus-rapid-transit-system&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNDYxNjIaNjg1OTUxMTNlYzQ5MTAwZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEvqkIEGmt0AS1NBUjyW8xUGNPZ1w"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">The
Bus is Back: Eugene expands 'Emerald Express' Bus Rapid Transit system </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">Oregon Business (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">The first leg of OB's bus tour takes us from Portland to Eugene, with stops at Lane County Transit, the storefront of a BRT critic and
new wave mobility company Arcimoto. <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.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/2017/10/24/welcoming-solar-farms-easy-long-taxpayers-not-burdened/795216001/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNzI4ODIaY2UwZjQ5YTg1MDM1NmRhYTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEGR_VizlH9Ds498rFZtU7ue05mnw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Welcoming
solar farms will be easy as long as taxpayers not burdened </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">Statesman Journal
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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 2016, more than 4,500 people worked in the solar-energy field in Oregon, which was up 50 percent from 2015, according to the Solar
Foundation in Washington D.C.<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.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/10/19/solar-farms-marion-polk-county-cypress-creek-renewables-solar-power/725839001/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMzAzMjIaMmVjMGY5MDFmNTZhYzkwZjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFRMwHBNLhDyU4p3u0LM734TylueQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Solar
farms coming to Mid-Willamette Valley as part of nearly $1 billion development spree
</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Statesman Journal
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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">Cypress Creek started working in Oregon in 2014. Six farms are generating electricity in Malheur County and one in Deschutes County. At
some of those sites, the company took advantage of a taxpayer-fueled effort by state officials to increase renewable energy supplies.<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.oregonbusiness.com/article/item/18057-waste-heat-recovery-lacks-incentives-provided-to-wind-and-solar&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNzI4ODIaY2UwZjQ5YTg1MDM1NmRhYTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHk_Cu-rLNxnOE1v89ZVmc0mGUsYw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Waste
heat recovery lacks incentives available to wind and solar </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">Oregon Business
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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">These programs prioritize wind and solar over emerging technologies, a practice some activist and politicians say stifles clean tech innovation.
In addition, waste heat to power systems don't qualify for Oregon's net metering law, which pay solar users for excess electricity they sent back into the grid.<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/2017/10/forbes_ranks_portland_best_pla.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNjAxMjIaZjg2NmNkYTI3M2U4ZDE5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEj7j_GN4G6cyRKwtxr30WhcX8TLg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Forbes
ranks Portland 'Best Places for Business and Careers' in the country </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
<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">The magazine cited “companies with a large local presence in the Portland metro like Nike, Intel, Daimler and Boeing," and the burgeoning
tech and startup community, which they call "Silicon Forest," a name I think we can all agree hasn't really caught on.<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.kptv.com/story/36631307/plans-for-nestle-water-bottling-plant-in-cascade-locks-moves-forward-despite-ban&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMjQ1MDIaMDNhMDBlZDQzNDdmNTY3NDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEDJ1jXX6kuJfLsNOEUwRaBB8QEXA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Plans
for Nestle water bottling plant in Cascade Locks moves forward despite ban </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">KPTV.com
<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">Oxbow Springs feeds the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Oxbow Fish Hatchery. Complicating things further, Oxbow Springs itself,
while inside the Cascade Locks urban growth boundary, is outside city limits.<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.bendsource.com/bend/filling-in-inner-bend/Content%3Foid%3D4264030&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMjQ1MDIaMDNhMDBlZDQzNDdmNTY3NDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEgnibawaCdiA8WB0Dzg4J7am4wHQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Filling
In Inner Bend </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">The Source Weekly (press release) (blog)
<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">The City also amended its development code, changing it from light industrial to mixed-use development in the area—named as an "opportunity
area" in Bend's Urban Growth Boundary expansion plan, acknowledged by the state late last year.<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.bendbulletin.com/localstate/5681028-151/bend-council-approves-housing-fee-exemptions&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMTU2OTIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF0OX42ExvLJgfM4MpjbrLKJjKMwQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Bend
council approves housing fee exemptions </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">Bend Bulletin
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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">Tax credits for financing, which he described as the “crack cocaine” of affordable housing financing, are pretty rare — Central Oregon
gets about one tax credit-financed project every couple of years. <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:#4472C4;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/style/the-end-of-freeways.html"><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4472C4;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none">Once
So Chic and Swooshy</span></em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#4472C4;text-decoration:none">, </span><em><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4472C4;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none">Freeways Are Falling Out of Favor</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="ohs"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">New York Times</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">BUFFALO — The Scajaquada Corridor is a city dweller's dreamland, a culture-vulture Valhalla. Within two miles there is a restored Frank
Lloyd Wright house you can visit, an art museum with Picassos and Gauguin’s, three college campuses, a zoo and a history museum in a majestic Greek Revival building from the 1901 Pan Am Exposition listed on the National Historic Register. There is just one
problem: An expressway runs through it. <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.jhnewsandguide.com/news/town_county/county-faces-decision-on-density-transfers/article_4685b2d8-2b34-5306-bb8f-80ffd266c4a7.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzYyNjYzMjQ5MzU4NjkyNzIxNDIaZWY3NTVmOTI3Yjc0YjY1MDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNE0lYc0S7n2RNlxV_K79eHMU-h97w"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">County
faces decision on density transfers </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">Jackson Hole News&Guide
<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">Current rural land development regulations offer density bonuses to encourage conservation of 90 percent of the area of 35-acre and larger
sites. The tools is designed as an incentive for owners of large properties to place their land under conservation. On Monday the Teton County Planning Commission voted 4-0 to approve the amendment allowing owners of noncontiguous sites to use the tool.<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/today/index.ssf/2017/10/california_wildfires_housing_c.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMTU2OTIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGW9UF9hX9ZniRcLxgKpNDFF7RBzw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">California
wildfires: Housing crunch in Bay Area gets even costlier after deadly fires </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
<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">A spike in housing and other living costs had driven her friends to Nevada and Oregon. Now Finzell wonders if that will be her fate too,
as the wildfires that charred California wine country send thousands of people who lost their homes scrambling for new places to live in one of the nation’s tightest and most expensive housing markets.
<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.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/10/20/alexandria-has-too-much-parking-and-small-biz-is.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMjQ0MDIaOTZjODAxN2RmYzRkOTQ5Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNElzjSQUhgB7kglGG9EscPZziH3uA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Alexandria
has too much parking and small biz is paying the price. Here's what the city might do ...
</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 Business Journal
<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">Ten percent of the city of Alexandria's surface is covered by parking lots, the city reports. And much of that parking, expensive as it
is for businesses to provide, isn’t being used. Alexandria hasn’t comprehensively updates its commercial parking standards since 1963, but it is headed that way as the city appears, based on an initial survey, to be well over-supplied.<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.planetizen.com/news/2017/10/95381-yards-slim-down-house-size-grows&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTNzQyMTA2MDkxNjQwMDMwMjE0NzIaYTI4ZTJkYWVjZWQwMTc4ZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGQ9X-8JGYDOeiFpCo2OZiPTSplbA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Yards
Slim Down as House Size Grows </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="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">As the footprints of the average suburban home grows and lot sizes shrink, the traditional sprawling yard is getting squeezed out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Sadie K Carney</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> | Rural Policy Analyst/Communications Manager</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Director’s Office</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150 | Salem, OR 97301-2540</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Direct: (503) 934-0036 | Cell: (503) 383-6648 | Main: (503) 373-0050</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:sadie.carney@state.or.us"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:blue">sadie.carney@state.or.us</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> |
</span><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:blue">www.oregon.gov/LCD/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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