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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.
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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.
Public Lands Issues
Complex
M ichael R ushton , DPM
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