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i Record-Courier THURSDAY, MAY 21,2015 Planning Commission to Hold Public Hearing On May 28, 2015 at 6 p.m., the Baker County Planning Commis sion will hold a public hearing to consider the remanded portions of a modification request for a condi tional use permit case number CU- 13-011. Kerry Gulick and Linda McE wan submitted a request to modify their existing Conditional Use Per mit, CU-00-005, for an existing 15-acre aggregate rock pit located on Tax Lot 1001 of Township 8 South, Range 46 East, W.M., Baker County, Oregon in Novem ber 2013. These proposed modi fications include: increasing the amount of material to be processed and crushed at the pit, increasing the time periods allow ing blasting and crushing, increas ing the hauling hours and allowed truck trips per day/week/year, along witfl operating a temporary asphalt plant. These modifications were proposed to facilitate both the repair of U.S. Forest Service Road 39 and general upgrades to the existing pit. The subject prop erty is located in the Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) Zone, northeast of Halfway, Oregon, on Gulick Road and Estes Hill Lane. The Conditional Use Permit ap proval was appealed to the Board of Commissioners in Jan., 2014. The Board of Commissioners af firmed the Planning Commission approval. Subsequently, the mat ter was appealed to the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA). LUBA remanded the decision in Dec., 2014. The Planning Com mission will review the remanded decision and adopt new findings. In order to do so, they may elect to open the record to new testimony. The public is invited to attend this hearing and to submit com ments if the Planning Commission opens the record for public testi mony. Testimony and relevant ev idence, either in support of or in opposition to the proposal, must be based on the relevant applica ble review criteria and submitted to the Planning Department by 5 p.m., on the hearing date, May 28, 2015, or in person during the hear ing. A copy of the application, all documents and evidence submit ted by or on behalf of the applicant and applicable criteria are avail able for inspection at no cost and will be provided at a reasonable cost. The staff report for remanded portion of the modification request for CU-13-011 will be available for inspection on May 21, 2015; copies will be provided for a rea sonable charge, digital versions will be e-mailed for free. The hearing will be held in the Commissioner’s Chambers at the Baker County Courthouse, 1995 Third Street in Baker City, Ore. If you have questions regarding the application, please contact Planner Kelly Howsley-Glover at (541)-523-8219 or kglover@ bak- ercoxmty.org, at the Planning De partment, located in the basement of the courthouse. f any family sized pizza Limit 1. Not good with any other offer. , PIZZA.— 1850 Campbell St. | Baker City, OR 541-523-4335 See you at Memorial Day Ceremonies natural resource agencies to more actively manage the public lands. In BLM’s case, long term planning requirements of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act still accom To the Editor: modate land purchases, land exchanges, I would like to share an excerpt from an arti grazing, mining, recreation, wilderness, rights- cle in the Spring 2015 edition of the "Journal of-way, timber management, energy leasing... of the Clann Campbell Society (North Amer in short, multiple uses of the public lands. ica)," concerning the 32nd Regiment of foot (a The issues surrounding the management of leg outfit) and their regimental colors during public lands are many and complex. Many the battles leading up to, and the battle against laws apply to these lands...all passed be the French at Waterloo. During the battle of cause of the public’s need for food, fiber, Quatre Bras (June 16, 1815), the colors were water, energy, transportation, and safety. ripped to pieces by an air burst artillery shell. Transferring ownership and management will Two days later on June 18,1815, they took the not simplify these issues, and folks who think field with 647 men of all ranks and by chance so are either deluding themselves or are woe opposite the main French effort. At the end of fully uneducated about them. the day, the regiment had 131 men left stand Utah has been cited as an example of how ing. I guess the colors took a beating also, and to implement this ill-advised scheme. The later the colors were on display in a church in problem there is that the efforts of the legisla Monmouthshire, Wales and they inspired a ture and the governor fly in the face of the short poem by Sir Edward Hamly. It struck a state attorney-general’s legal advice, legal cord with me - thus, this letter before Memorial precedent and case law, the economic analy Day. Anyone who has served their nation in sis from the University of Utah requested by any capacity or have felt that "little something" the legislature, and common sense. upon seeing our national colors pass in review Each state in the West is challenged to at a ceremony or parade and said, "It's a grand maintain a level of service to the public com old flag," will know what I mean. mensurate with their budgets. Taking on mil "A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, lions of acres with complex and often It does not look likely to stir a man's soul, competing issues of management is not in our 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the best interest or the land’s. moth-eaten rag, Imagine for a moment a time when the state When the pole was a staff, and the rag was and/or county might manage these public a flag." lands. Fire, grazing, wildlife, recreation, log- See you at the ceremonies Memorial Day. ging/timber management, water quality, water Al Ashenbrenner shed management, energy and mining, Baker City access and transportation, wilderness man agement, rights-of-way, public safety and many other uses would have to be managed. How would this be paid for? Proponents say we could simply cut more timber, mine more minerals, lease more oil and gas and coal, sell To the Editor: Much has been said recently in the West more land, charge more for grazing and recre about local control of and “taking back” our ational uses, and cut administrative costs... and magically our problems would be solved. public lands. Taking them back from whom? The public A simple answer to a complex problem. And lands never “belonged” to the States...they the wrong answer. We have a system of representative govern are made up of what was left after the U.S. government made land available for, among ment in this country guaranteed by the Consti other things, homesteading, road-building, se tution. It has worked for over 200 years and it lections by the states as each came into the has created the greatest country in the world. Union, and constructing the railroads that Let’s use the tools at hand. Let’s get over our selves and get to work cooperating and coor welded our young country together. The United States acquired its land base pri dinating with each other and our public land marily through conquest, purchase, and treaty. management agencies to address real is The Constitution provides the authority for the sues...not wasting our time and money on federal government to acquire, regulate, and half-baked, poorly thought-out strategies that manage public lands, and the U.S. Supreme already have proven to be ineffective and not Court has long-recognized federal ownership based in law or logic. I know we can do this... of the public lands (once referred to as the we’ve done it before and are doing it in right now in many instances throughout our state Public Domain). Subsequent actions designating National and our county. Dave Hunsaker Forests, National Parks, National Wildlife Baker City Refuges, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, Dave Hunsaker worked in natural resource Wilderness, etc., were accomplished from al management for over 40 years. He was the ready-existing public lands. In 1976 Congress changed the status of the Center Director for the Oregon Trail Interpre Public Domain and decided it was in the pub tive Center here, retired as the Associate State lic’s interest for the federal government to Director for BLM in Colorado, and moved back maintain ownership of, and to require several home to Baker City in 2011. 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May 15 - State of Ore. v. Michell L. Wehl regarding Harassment, misdemeanor. May 15 - Midland Funding, LLC v. Frank Zednik regarding Civil Money Action.
