Voters upheld Oregon’s land-use system by rejecting the measure two months before McCall died. Under Oregon’s system, an urban growth boundary designates where a city expects to grow over the ...

The property is currently an observatory surrounded by open land. System officials say they’ll use it for agricultural research and other opportunities.

The City Club of Central Oregon held a forum recently titled Open Spaces and Open Houses, Tradeoffs in the Oregon Land Use System. A featured speaker was urban planner Bill Fulton.

Critics say the system is a culprit for the high cost of land and housing, while proponents say it makes cities more livable and protects natural open spaces and farmland.

Oregon's land use planning system doesn't need an overhaul. Adjustments to it have been made, and others will be made in the future, so it meets our needs in the 21st century.

Bill Moshofsky With Oregon's economy one of the worst in the country, it's time to explore all avenues that could get it headed in the right direction - for struggling businesses, industries ...

There will be an open house event hosted by the City of Beavercreek to encourage the public to share feedback on a draft of ...

Skyline Mobile Home Park in Torrance has moved one step closer to finalizing a $2 million project to install more than 700 solar panels just south of the park, after the City Council OK’d a land-use ...

The goal of preserving open space in the county is so engrained in the psyche of the government that it has its own department, offices and staff, and the backing of its residents and taxpayers.

McCall, who was dying of cancer, campaigned against it. Voters upheld Oregon’s land-use system by rejecting the measure two months before McCall died.