Oregon Rethinks Easing Land-Use Limits
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SALEM, Ore. -- Cities in Oregon have suburbs that come to a sudden and seemingly arbitrary stop. They slammed into an "urban growth boundary," which for decades prevented townhouses and strip malls from invading the state's farmland and forests.
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By ASHLEY KINDERGAN, SPECIAL TO THE RECORD  If state funds for environmental preservation are allowed to dry up next year, the burden of creating and maintaining green space will fall to counties and municipalities, local officials said.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jan. 31--Fresno County supervisors slowed a plan Tuesday to expand Parlier's future city boundaries, saying the city did not do enough to protect sensitive agricultural areas.
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By Omar Sofradzija  By OMAR SOFRADZIJA  (c) 2007 REVIEW-JOURNAL  A complicated compromise could expand landowners' protections against seizures of their land, while limiting the effect such limits would have on public works projects.
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By MARGARET K. COLLINS, STAFF WRITER  WAYNE  Township officials still hope for tax-generating development on the last big tract of available land in town. But after having butted their heads against state environmental restrictions in the past, they're now willing to go along to get along.
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Gilbert, Ariz., and Portland, Ore., have approached expansion in two very different ways.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 21--A proposal to offset the future loss of Monterey County farmland to development in the proposed county general plan provoked heated protests Wednesday before county planning commissioners.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 6--With the Everglades restoration running behind schedule, the region's water management agency has proposed water-supply restrictions that would raise bills and make future development more expensive.
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Property owners faced off against conservationists at a legislative hearing to reconsider new rules that restrict development near shorelines where sandpipers, plovers and other migrating birds feed and rest.
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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 14--GILROY -- Developers, landowners and South County officials have  convinced a regional land-use agency to delay a policy that could limit the  growth of Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
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By Larissa Van Beurden-Doust, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 11--Some Nipomo residents who like the town's rural atmosphere are worried that open space left near some housing projects may actually lead to more development.
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When cities run out of valuable real estate, planners look up. The search for green space is no exception.
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By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 19--Nature would be treated with a gentler hand when some of the remaining rural areas of Douglas County are developed, under policies up for approval by the county.
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By Denis CuffSTAFF  A conservation group announced a deal last week to buy a half- square-mile of spring-fed grasslands and oak forests north of Clayton, where county-approved growth limits scuttled plans to build housing.
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 25--When the Bush administration reversed federal policy in 2005 and announced it was opening up to 58 million acres of pristine national forest lands to timbering, oil and gas exploration and mining, the public reaction was heartening.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 2--When it comes to saving many significant tracts of open space in the state -- land that should remain in its natural state to protect Connecticut's quality of life -- it's now or never.