Oregonians once feared their state would be wrecked by out-of-control sprawling development opb.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from opb.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gov. Tina Kotek on Thursday began a full-court press for her $500 million plan to spur home construction, telling senators in a crowded committee hearing that they can’t go home
Gov. Kotek Pushes Senate Panel to Approve $500 Million Housing Plan corvallisadvocate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from corvallisadvocate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gov. Tina Kotek on Thursday began a full-court press for her $500 million plan to spur home construction, telling senators in a crowded committee hearing that they can’t go home
Growing Oregon: The fight to create a plan to control growth opb.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from opb.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It's Houses vs. Trees on a 30-Acre Parcel in the Heart of the Willamette Valley wweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Inside the fight between Oregon leaders to create a revolutionary growth management system opb.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from opb.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the 1970s, Oregonians looked to California and didn't want the same fate for their state. A new crop of young legislators in Salem saw an opportunity to advance an ambitious agenda. It took nearly a decade to put in place a system that has some of the strongest protections in the U.S. for farms, forests and other open spaces.
Henry Richmond, founder of 1000 Friends of Oregon, has died OregonLive.com 8 hrs ago The Oregonian, oregonlive.com Henry Richmond, founder of the land-use advocacy group 1000 Friends of Oregon and a leading supporter of Oregon’s much-touted land-use planning system, died June 21. He was 78. He died suddenly at his family’s farm near Newberg following a heart attack, OPB reported. Richmond had a national reputation as an expert on land-use policy. As chair of the National Growth Management Leadership Project, a nonprofit coalition of states looking at growth issues, he once told an Ohio audience, “How development happens matters to communities.” He promoted land-use planning as a way for communities to take control over their growth, rather than the other way around.