Land-Use Category Approved
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By Karen Branch-Brioso, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Sep. 15--TAMPA -- A 1,937-acre piece of northeast Hillsborough County  farmland and timberland moved a step toward development Thursday.
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By Laith Agha, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 12--Landfill, solid waste management site, environmental park -- call it what you will. Just don't call it a dump.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 13--A revised federal plan to speed home and institutional building in coastal wetlands has been released for public review and comments.   The U.S.
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By Kevin Miller, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Jun. 8--Staff and members of the Land Use Regulation Commission are bracing for a marathon stretch of public hearings and workshops on some of the most complex and controversial issues to ever come before the regulatory agency.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 10--Among the complaints that people have about a proposed land-development code for Catawba County's unincorporated areas, rules on home businesses, minimum lot sizes and trailer homes top the list.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 9--Pueblo County's 1041 land-use regulations are becoming a "smorgasbord for lawyers," as Commissioner Matt Peulen put it.
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By Art Campos, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 1--It's been 12 years in the recipe stage, and now it's about to be served for approval to the Placer County Board of Supervisors.
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By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 30--The Army Corps of Engineers is poised to cede part of its authority for regulating wetlands to the state -- a move intended to speed permits for small developments and road projects, especially in wetlands-rich Hampton Roads.
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By Kerry Cavanaugh, Daily News, Los Angeles  Feb. 26--Since development is one of the most contentious and pressing  issues in the city, the Los Angeles Planning Department and neighborhood  councils have launched a pilot program to give communities a greater say in  land-use decisions.
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The Steeds Grant subdivision in Fort Washington projects an air of comfortable affluence. Stately, spacious Colonials nestle on winding streets, their Palladian windows and backyard decks offering a vista of rolling lawns and wooded glens. Well-heeled professionals come and go; the manicured yards...
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 18--PASCAGOULA -- Jackson County supervisors will again consider an appeal from a Florida developer who wants to build something other than single-family homes in an area of Fontainebleau north of St. Andrews.
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By Bob Schwarz, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 17--The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation has approved roughly $201,000 in grants for 15 land-use and recreation projects in its third-quarter granting cycle.
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By Mike Prager, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 14--A 39-lot clustered housing development is being proposed along Newman Lake and Lakeview Road.   It is one of three large-acreage developments recently proposed across the county.
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Mar. 10--BELLINGHAM -- A study that advocates additional measures to preserve agricultural use on nearly 22,000 Whatcom County acres will be presented to the Whatcom County Council Tuesday.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  May 31--A property owner will delay building 45 houses spread over 700 acres on Squalicum Mountain while he tries to persuade county government to let him instead build a gated community on top of the mountain, his developer said.
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By Michael Andersen, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jan. 31--A Clark County land-use hearings examiner Tuesday approved a plan to build what's thought to be a Wal-Mart store on Northeast 134th Street in the Salmon Creek area.