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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, June 29, 2017 Opposition continues despite changes to rural land use bill Bill relaxing restrictions in slow-growth counties clears Senate committee BRIEFLY Man arrested after taking stranger’s baby onto roof KLAMATH FALLS (AP) — Police in southern Oregon arrested a man accused of breaking into a woman’s home, kidnapping her baby and taking the child onto a roof. Klamath County District Attorney Eve Costello says the mother of the 13-month-old boy called 9-1-1 early Wednesday, saying she was stabbed while trying to protect the child from the stranger later identified as Brennan Stone of Klamath Falls. Sheriff’s deputies arrived and found Stone holding the baby on the roof of a neighbor’s three-story house. Costello says Stone threw a brick and was talking irrationally, but two officers climbed to the roof and persuaded Stone to hand them the baby. Costello says the Klamath Falls resident was booked into jail on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, assault and unlawful use a weapon. The extent of the mother’s injury has not been released. The baby was not hurt. “For all the angst over this bill, the im- pact on the ground is very small.” By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Bureau — Dave Hunnicutt, executive director of Oregonians In Action, a property rights group SALEM — Supporters of a bill to relax Oregon’s land use restrictions in slow-growing counties were unable to overcome objec- tions to the proposal despite several revisions. Nonetheless, Senate Bill 432 was referred to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means on June 26 by the Senate Rules Committee, albeit without a “do pass” recommendation. Under the original language of the bill, counties with fewer than 50,000 resi- dents that have experienced no growth since the previous federal population census were exempted from state- wide land use planning goals. The amended version of SB 432 allows such slow- growing counties, and the cities within them, to adopt exceptions to statewide land use planning goals. Such exceptions cannot take place on high-value farmland or adversely affect areas protected under a pres- ervation plan for the Greater sage grouse, a sensitive bird species. The amendment also conservation group have maintained their opposition to SB 432. Easing development in rural areas has raised worries about skyrocketing land values, potentially pricing farmers and ranchers out of the market while reducing sales for key agricultural suppliers, said Mary Anne Nash, public policy counsel for Oregon Farm Bureau. “The biggest concern is everyone around them will parcelize out,” she said. High-value farmland is defined narrowly in the bill, excluding irrigation proper- ties and those valuable for ranching, said Mary Kyle McCurdy, deputy director of 1,000 Friends of Oregon. Land use restrictions haven’t been shown to suppress economic devel- opment, but SB 432 would create different rules for different counties, said McCurdy. “Predictability will be gone,” she said. Capital Bureau Senate Bill 432, a bill to relax Oregon’s land use re- strictions in slow-growing counties, was referred to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means on June 26 by the Senate Rules Committee, albeit without a “do pass” recommendation. clarifies that counties that experience population growth greater than 4 percent or 1,000 residents between census reports cannot qualify for new land use exceptions. “For all the angst over this bill, the impact on the ground is very small,” said Dave Hunnicutt, executive director of Oregonians In Action, a property rights group that supports SB 432. The Association of Oregon Counties and the League of Oregon Cities also support the bill, with representatives testifying that it provides economical- ly-struggling counties with more autonomy. Local governments are often blocked from under- taking relatively minor land use change because they can’t afford the costly studies required, said Erin Doyle, intergovernmental relations associate with the League of Oregon Cities. The bill’s scope would effectively be limited to eight of Oregon’s 36 coun- ties: Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler. Although the proposal’s breadth was narrowed, the Oregon Farm Bureau and the 1,000 Friends of Oregon Rental house owner not charged for recording hot tub BEND — An Oregon judge has ordered a man who rents a house to vacationers to either stop recording a hot tub on the property’s front porch or put up a sign telling guests they’re being recorded. The case ended Monday with no charges being filed against the Sunriver resort vacation rental owner, who said in court he used the camera for security reasons and to see if employees, such as housekeepers, showed up when they were supposed to, The Bend Bulletin reported. The owner, 59-year-old Kenneth Neish, later told the newspaper he only wanted to know if the hot tub was left uncovered when children were present and not supervised. “If I am told I am renting to a family and then I see 25 kids bringing a keg into the home, I need to protect my property,” Neish said, calling the camera practical. The hidden door-bell camera recorded video and audio. It came to light after Neish called police claiming to hear vacationers talking about LSD. Authorities found no such evidence and no drugs, but told the renters about the camera. Those renters then recalled getting in the tub naked, and became worried for their privacy. “When we found out, our world was rocked,” renter John Hill said. “Who would go to a vacation rental and be audio and visual recorded? We never expected that.” Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said while the front porch area is within the public domain, and therefore there is not a reasonable right to privacy, the hot tub is a private space. Hummel said he will not be so lenient next time. Oregon boy, 6, found in car trunk; critically injured The child was likely in the trunk for up to an hour on Tuesday afternoon when temperatures reached 90 degrees, Curtis said. He was flown by heli- copter to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland, where he remains unresponsive and is undergoing brain scans, he said. Authorities originally said in a statement that the case appeared to be an acci- dent and not criminal. But Curtis said in a telephone interview with The Asso- ciated Press on Wednesday GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND — A 6-year-old Oregon boy was hospitalized Wednesday in critical condition with severe heat exhaustion after he was found locked inside his family’s car trunk on a hot day, police said. Police hope to review surveillance video from a camera attached to a neighbor’s house to figure out how the boy got into the trunk, said Lt. Kerry Curtis, a spokesman for the Medford Police Department. working in the garage and the mother was inside their home when the boy disap- peared, Curtis said. Both parents thought he was with the other parent. When they realized he was missing, they began to search and the mother spotted a cellphone the boy had been playing with in the back seat of the family’s 2003 Honda Civic, which was parked in an alley behind the house, Curtis said. When she opened the car door to get the cellphone, she heard the boy whimpering in the trunk, Curtis said. that police have not ruled anything out. The surveil- lance video should provide more answers, he said. “That’s the million-dollar question that we’re trying to answer, is how he got (in) there,” he said. Authorities do know the boy was not playing hide and seek, Curtis said. The boy’s parents do not speak fluent English, and a language barrier hampered the investigation until authorities could get a trans- lator to the home Tuesday night. The boy’s father was Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Hi 66 86 87 64 87 84 80 89 96 89 88 86 84 92 62 64 90 95 91 85 91 84 88 85 84 93 95 Lo 54 49 52 53 50 50 51 58 66 57 49 55 52 58 52 55 57 61 63 57 51 56 62 49 55 67 62 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s s pc s s s s s s pc pc pc s s s pc s pc s s pc s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 96 91 87 67 73 73 70 83 86 61 80 Lo 73 83 65 56 58 60 56 69 69 49 73 W pc pc s c t s pc s pc pc c Fri. Hi 98 90 88 71 71 79 67 83 87 58 81 Lo 76 83 67 57 58 62 56 63 70 43 75 W s sh s c t r sh t s s r WINDS Medford 92/58 (in mph) Klamath Falls 84/46 Boardman Pendleton REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern and Central Oregon: Nice today; partly sunny, but sunnier in the south and near the Cascades. Western Washington: Areas of low clouds and fog giving way to sun today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today. Clear tonight. 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