Monday Mailing
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LNG Roils County Commission Race Oregon Ranked 5th Most Bike-Friendly State by The League OSU-Cascades Campus Delayed Hazards Related Web Resources Oregon Rail Plan Available for Comment Webinar-Creative Thinking about Developing Rural Food Systems 2014 Solar Now! University Conference Hike it, Bike it, Raft it ~ Eastern Oregon’s Scenic Byways GTA Events in May These Simple Devices Turn Every Sign Post Into A Bike Rack Funding Opportunities
1. LNG Roils County Commission Race Natural gas import/export projects have been a contentious local election issue in Clatsop County for a decade now. And this May it is on the minds of voters again.
Quote of the Week: “Friends ask us why we do it. As I have already insinuated, there are selfish reasons, and it is just as well that there are. If we through we were acting out of pure altruism, we should be unbearable, and if we were looking for appreciation and praise, we should be hopelessly embittered. Our reward comes in the friendships we have made, in the pleasures of belonging to a group, and in the increase in understanding. But there is no sense in pretending to be more hard-boiled than we are. Along with everything else, we do have a feeling of responsibility to the community. What we get is, indeed, a byproduct of what we give. We did not set out to see what we could learn, but to see what we could do.” ~Granville Hicks Oregon Fast Fact: Oregon is super lucky to have a crew like you!!
With three commission seats to be determined in the election, the county’s stance on Oregon LNG’s proposed pipeline could change if a land-use application is remanded back to the county for another decision-making process. The county’s recent denial is being reviewed by the Land Use Board of Appeals. To access the full story, click here. 2. Oregon Ranked 5th Most Bike-Friendly State by The League The League of American Bicyclists has ranked Oregon the fifth most bike friendly state in the nation. This ranking marks a slip of two places from our third place ranking last year. Since these rankings debuted in 2008, Oregon has only been out of the top five one time with an eighth-place in 2011 (which the Oregon Department of Transportation took exception to). While no ranking system is perfect (and most of them are nothing but click-bait garbage) the League of American Bicyclists does have some credibility and they have a rigorous set of criteria that they use to weight a state's success in integrating bicycling into transportation plans, policies, and projects. To access the full story, click here. 3. OSU-Cascades Campus Delayed Facing an extended land use review process that may delay the opening of its planned four-year campus, Oregon State University-Cascades Campus has begun looking for temporary student housing and classroom space on Bend’s west side. The university doesn’t anticipate being delayed more than a year and is eyeing a 2016 opening for the
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