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Articles from the August 12, 2016 edition


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  • Could development within 170 feet of a stream be banned?

    Aug 12, 2016

    EUGENE: Conflicts involving the National Flood Insurance Act and the Endangered Species Act relating to impacts subsidized flood insurance have had on development in floodplains is now being reviewed by Lane County‘s Land Management Division. In a June memo to the board of commissioners, Keir Miller, a senior planner with the Public Works Department, noted the county had been participating in the flood program since 1970. “The Land Management Division is responsible for administering the day-to-day activities of the county’s floodplain progr...