Monday Mailing - December 21, 2020

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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

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Oregon Fast Fact Oregon’s state song was chosen during a state song contest in 1920. Oregon, My Oregon was written by Astoria city judge, John Buchanan, and a professional musician, Henry Murtagh.

Listen to the state song.

Land Conservation and Development Commission Adopts Middle Housing Rules to Boost Housing Choice and Supply Drinking Water Data for Coastal Communities 5 Steps to Help Yourself Recover from a Setback “We Can’t Return to Normal”: Committing to Tourism Equity in the Post-Pandemic Age (Aliza McHugh) Clatsop-Nehalem Tribes ‘Dreaming Again’ With Return of Ancestral Land (Katie McFall) Too Many Meetings (Grace Kaplowitz) Portland Took These Black Families’ Homes. Some of Their Descendants Want Reparations. (Eva Kahn) After the Fires, Timber Industry Faces ‘Generational’ Losses and Longer-Term Supply Questions (Katie Fields) Hillsboro Launches HiLight, Aspiring to Build Oregon’s Largest City-Run Internet Service (Lydia Ivanovic) PODCAST: Vaccine Rollout in Rural Eastern Oregon and Idaho Poses Unique Challenges

Land Conservation and Development Commission Adopts Middle Housing Rules to Boost Housing Choice and Supply Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development On December 9, the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) adopted a model housing code and administrative rules to guide and encourage the development of middle housing (duplex, triplex, quadplex, townhouses, and cottage clusters) in large-sized cities as part of House Bill 2001. The 2019 legislation allows for development of diverse housing types in historically exclusionary singlefamily zones. Thirty-six cities in Oregon will need to comply with these rules by adopting changes to their land use ordinances by June 2022.

The adoption of the model code and rules for large cities (OAR Chapter 660, Division 46) is a major milestone in the implementation of the work by House Speaker Tina Kotek and the Oregon Legislature to increase housing choice and supply in Oregon. This is the final set of rules to be adopted by the Commission to implement House Bill 2001. In July 2020, LCDC RARE AmeriCorps Program Monday Mailing | Page 1 of 6

adopted a model housing code and administrative rules to allow for the development of duplexes on all single family zoned lots in medium-sized cities, population between 10,000 and 25,000. In August 2020, LCDC adopted rules establishing a process for cities to extend the deadline to comply with middle housing rules in areas with significant infrastructure deficiencies.

Commission Chair Robin McArthur summarized the momentous vote this way: “I am proud and honored to join my fellow commissioners in unanimously adopting a rule that will lead to an increase in housing supply and housing choice in communities throughout Oregon.

Actions to address housing inequity and racial exclusion are long overdue. We must now turn our collective attention toward implementation including funding for infrastructure planning and development.”

Read the full story.

2. Drinking Water Data for Coastal Communities

Ecotrust A majority of Oregonians depend on forests for their drinking water. In fact, surface water, the kind that comes from forest streams, rivers, and lakes, provides a full 70 percent of all water used in the state, with 163 communities dependent on this water to fill their daily needs.

Surface water is vulnerable to a variety of pollution sources: Steep forest slopes prone to landslides, eroding stream banks, and fires can lead to spikes in sedimentation. Riverbank erosion, road-building near streams, boat ramps, and agricultural chemicals-fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides—are all potential sources for contamination. And, since so much of our surface water comes from forests, the location, method, and scale of timber harvests play a part as well.

To protect drinking water, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality established Drinking Water Source Areas (DWSAs)—geographic designations that indicate where surface water flows before being delivered to communities—throughout the state.

Read the full story.

3. 5 Steps to Help Yourself Recover from a Setback Harvard Business Review This was not your best week. Something didn’t go right. Let’s say it was a negotiation that didn’t play out your way.

What do you do afterward? You might go to a bar with friends, talk to your spouse, or call your mom. But those are just delay tactics. Soon the ruminating will begin. You’ll wonder what went wrong and blame yourself, others, or external factors. When that becomes exhausting, you’ll tell yourself that you need to forget the past and focus on what’s ahead.

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This is a natural and perfectly reasonable reaction, but it’s psychologically painful without much benefit. It won’t prevent you from experiencing the same kind of failure a second or third or fourth time.

Read the full story.

4. “We Can’t Return to Normal”: Committing to Tourism Equity in the Post-Pandemic Age Tourism Geographies Tourism transformation must bring an actionable focus on equity. A new normal openly recognizes the crises and tensions inhabiting tourism well before the COVID-19 pandemic along with the holistic and integrated nature of a pro-equity agenda. A resilient postpandemic tourism must be more equitable and just, in terms of how it operates, its effects on people and place, and how we as scholars teach, study and publicly engage the travel industry—particularly in preparing its current and future leaders. A commitment to equity is about making specific changes in practices and decisions at multiple levels, along with growing a wider ethical framework. This pivot of a mindset requires us, as tourists, corporations, and educators to step away from a selfish perspective and critically change our perception and understanding of tourism to a truly equitable focus. Consequently, these actions force us to question the consumerism and capitalistic lens that has contributed to mass growth across the touristic landscape and instead, choose a system that fosters sustainable and equitable growth - which in turn, ‘slows down’ our ways of consuming the world around us - transforming our values and experiences of what tourism is and should be.

Read the full story.

5. Clatsop-Nehalem Tribes ‘Dreaming Again’ With Return of Ancestral Land Oregon Public Broadcasting Charlotte Basch sits on a piece of driftwood in the tall grass along the Necanicum River estuary, in Seaside where her Clatsop Native American ancestors used to live.

“The estuary is where the Neawanna, the Neacoxie and the Necanicum rivers all come together,” she said. “You can hear the ocean. ...You can see the coastal range. ... It’s an incredibly beautiful spot.”

The former tribal village site is at a busy intersection culturally and ecologically, along a tidal marsh at the confluence of three rivers, sandwiched between the ocean and a steady stream of cars and RVs driving through Seaside on U.S. Highway 101.

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This place was so important to the Clatsop Tribe that when it signed a treaty in 1851 ceding their land, this was where they were guaranteed the right to fish and hunt indefinitely.

Ultimately, though, they were fenced out and forced to leave.

Read the full story.

6. Too Many Meetings Culture Study.

Let’s say, in pre-pandemic life, you worked in an office and wanted to quickly run an idea by a colleague. It’s too much for a Slack message or an email, so you stopped by their desk and asked if you could have a moment of their time, picked their brain for a second, whatever.

During the pandemic, you can’t go to that person’s desk. You still don’t want to use email or Slack. You could call them up on the phone, but you don’t know if they’re busy with something else and can’t be interrupted, which would be awkward, especially if they’re slightly senior to you. So you decide, in office speak, to “put some time on their calendar.”

All that’s available: a thirty minute slot near the end of their day.

Read the full story.

7. Portland Took These Black Families’ Homes. Some of Their Descendants Want Reparations.

Oregon Public Broadcasting In the early 1970s, Portland’s urban development agency destroyed the homes of 171 families to make room for a hospital expansion that never happened.

Half a century later, following months of racial justice protests and a week that saw the ”Red House” protests shine an intense spotlight on the issue of gentrification in the city’s historically Black Albina neighborhood, some descendants of the area’s displaced families are making a renewed push for reparations.

The group, called the Emanuel Displaced Persons Association 2 or EDPA2, planned to ask the Portland City Council for some form of compensation midday Wednesday. That request will take place as council members consider making changes to an urban renewal zone that encompasses parcels of land ripped from the families in the ’70s for the proposed 55-acre expansion. The city is weighing increasing the “maximum indebtedness” of the zone — effectively increasing the amount of money Portland can generate for projects around Interstate 5.

Read the full story.

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8. After the Fires, Timber Industry Faces ‘Generational’ Losses and Longer-Term Supply Questions The Oregonian Rick McKay’s logging crew was off for Labor Day weekend when the Lionshead fire blew through its job site just above Breitenbush Hot Springs.

When crew members cut their way back in two weeks later, what they found was a scorched-earth patch of the fire that had consumed or damaged most of the equipment on site.

A grader purchased in January. Toast. Two log processors and a log loader. An excavator. A roller. Two trailers. A pickup/fire engine and a water tanker.

Some is insured, McKay said, but like most loggers, a bunch isn’t. He’s still trying to figure what’s salvageable.

“It was a big hit,” he said, estimating the value at $1 million. “Replacing that equipment isn’t easy either…I’m almost 60.”

Oregon’s timber industry, made up of companies small and large, is still counting its losses.

Nobody has a credible number yet. It’s huge. And equipment losses are the least of it.

Read the full story.

9. Hillsboro Launches HiLight, Aspiring to Build Oregon’s Largest City-Run Internet Service The Oregonian Hillsboro’s new, city-backed fiber-optic network formally launched Thursday, serving just 780 homes and businesses in a single neighborhood near Shute Park with internet and phone service called HiLight.

Over the next decade, though, Hillsboro plans to expand the project to establish Oregon’s largest publicly run fiber network with prices and speeds that best those offered by the private companies that currently dominate the market.

Read the full story.

10. PODCAST – Vaccine Rollout in Rural Eastern Oregon and Idaho Poses Unique Challenges Oregon Public Broadcasting Less than a year after the coronavirus began its fatal spread in the United States, vaccines for the virus are now crossing the finish line in record time. Just a few days after the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for RARE AmeriCorps Program Monday Mailing | Page 5 of 6

emergency use, tens of thousands of first doses of the vaccine have already arrived in the Pacific Northwest. Doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, if authorized by the FDA, will soon follow.

In Oregon, Washington and Idaho, front-line health care workers and residents of longterm care facilities will be the first in line for receiving the vaccine. But wider distribution of the vaccine to the general population could still be months away. So health officials and medical professionals in the Northwest are beginning to think through some of the logistical challenges vaccine rollout will pose, particularly in more rural areas like Eastern Oregon.

Read the full story.

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