Bend added the tract into its urban growth boundary in 2023 through a special process legislated two years earlier by Oregon House Bill 3318, which prescribed the sale to benefit state funding for ...

Back in 2008, the city of Bend asked Oregon for permission to expand its urban growth boundary. The state said no. J L Ward land manager Dean Wise points to the 350 acre swath of land just ...

Bend is one of three Oregon cities that so far have expressed open interest in leveraging a one-time, 100-acre urban expansion unlocked by Senate Bill 1537, which Gov. Tina Kotek signed earlier ...

This is exactly what the residents of Bend, Oregon, did circa 2009, when they invoked the state’s landmark 1973 land use law and prevented houses from being built in a fireplain by instead directing ...

Lee had initially proposed to sell between 2.2 million to 3.3 million acres of public land in Oregon, Washington and nine ...

The city of Bend is taking the first legal steps to condemn land so it can expand the Newport Avenue Bridge. A resolution will come before the Bend City Council tonight requesting that the city ...

On May 16, the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, a trio of expert land use attorneys, denied the appeals of several groups contesting a county decision made in October in favor of developers.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – If you visit an open piece of land anywhere in Oregon, be it scenic or mundane, and can’t tell whether it’s public or private – and if it's public, what federal, state ...

The most recent USDA Census of Agriculture shows Oregon as losing 666,500 acres in the five years preceding 2022, or about 4.2% — higher than California’s loss of 1.4%, said Johnson.