Oregon Task Force on Land Use Planning Surveys

The Oregon Task Force on Land Use Planning recently sent a series of questionnaires to select organizations to address six key issues it identified for further study (each by a task force workgroup):

1. What are the appropriate roles of state and local governments in land use in Oregon?
2. What is the appropriate role of citizen involvement in land use?
3. What role should land use planning play in enhancing Oregon's economy now and in the future?
4. What are the most effective tools to manage population growth to achieve community goals?)
5. How should Oregon's system of infrastructure, finance, and governance influence land use?
6. How can the land use process appropriately address the benefits and burdens that fall on individual land owners and the general public?

Some organizations were surveyed by all of the workgroups, others only by some. Some organizations surveyed are public interest groups, while many represent economic interests in land use laws. Still more organizations and individual citizens of Oregon were not invited to answer the workgroup questions. 1000 Friends of Oregon chose to respond to the questions of all six of the workgroups, although we were not invited to do so by all. Read our responses (340K PDF).

The task force is not currently surveying individual Oregonians, though it did issue an online survey for citizens late last spring. You can email or write to the task force with your comments and ideas for how to take a “big look” at Oregon’s future.

During spring 2006, the task force also asked “stakeholders” to identify the most important land use issues to address during its three-year effort. Read 1000 Friends of Oregon's response (307K PDF).

To learn more about the work plan submitted by the task force to the Governor, read the cover letter from chair Mike Thorne (45K PDF) and the task force's work plan (27K PDF).

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