House Bill 2655 has been introduced by representatives Zika, DB Smith and Owens and is scheduled for the House Committee on Housing on Thursday, February 4th at 8:00 a.m. The summary of the bill is that it “prohibits counties from establishing minimum lot size of more than one acre for…

House Bill 2655 has been introduced by representatives Zika, DB Smith and Owens and is scheduled for the House Committee on Housing on Thursday, February 4th at 8:00 a.m. The summary of the bill is that it “prohibits counties from establishing minimum lot size of more than one acre for…

Rogue Advocates has filed an appeal of Jackson County’s approval of the Box R Ranch Conditional Use Permit to authorize an aggregate mine on a 42-acre parcel zoned forest resource. The site is about 1 1/2 miles south of Hwy 66 near Lincoln school in the Greensprings. Access has been…

Help stop the rezone of 837 acres of farmland in Columbia County. 1000 Friends of Oregon, along with Farmer Advisory Committee member Mike Seely, are fighting the Port of Columbia County’s third attempt to rezone 837 acres of farmland adjacent to the Seely mint farm to industrial use. The focus…

The Land Conservation and Development Commission is proposing temporary rule changes to allow interim housing on lands outside of the Urban Growth Boundaries as a result of wildfire displacement. Rogue Advocates is concerned that the proposed language in the draft rule changes in conjunction with enforcement practice in Jackson County…