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Metro Seeks Funds To Develop Land Within Urban Growth Boundary
Rob Manning
Metro Council's top administrator says it's likely the urban growth boundary will need to expand to meet future housing demand. That's the boundary that curtails development onto farmland. But even inside the current boundary, he says there is room for growth. |
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How Do We Keep Rural America Rural?
Neal Peirce With a classic glacial lake, steep mountainsides and grand vistas, the area around my family’s summer home draws visitors and would-be new residents like a magnet. The visioning statements that surrounding towns have adopted place high value on land stewardship and retaining a rural lifestyle. |
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Special Report: Smart Money in Real Estate Is on Smart Growth
By Helen Chernikoff and Al Yoon ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - This suburb of Washington, D.C. inspired R.E.M.'s 1984 song about the soul-sucking blandness of a suburban adolescence that has been a staple of rock and roll. "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" described a town of empty houses, "where nobody says hello." |
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Livable Communities Act Gains Momentum
By Ya-Ting Liu |
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Farmers Markets Growing like Weeds Around Country
By Bonnie Azab Powell
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that there are now 6,132 farmers markets in the country, up 16 percent from last year and a stunning 214 percent increase since 2000. |
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Is there a future in farming?
By Damian Mann
Terry Helfrich is a field manager for a pear company. So what's he doing standing in a former pear orchard that's now filled with tomatoes, corn, bell peppers, peaches, apples, plums and cherries? "I am an orchardist, but now I'm a farmer," said Helfrich, who works for Southern Oregon Sales, a pear-packing cooperative. |
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Council Creek Still Front Line of the Reserves Fight
By Christian Gaston The long reserve saga is nearly over. In October, the Land Conservation and Development Commission will decide whether to give Metro and three Portland-area counties the green light on setting aside land as urban or rural reserve – or send the planners back to the drawing table. When they do, the commission will weight the comments of nearly 50 individuals and groups that object to the reserves in one way or another. |
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