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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
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
FRIDAY
Delightful with
clouds and sun
Mostly sunny
84° 57°
91° 63°
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Nice with plenty of
sunshine
Sunny and
pleasant
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
87° 59°
89° 61°
87° 54°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
96° 66°
90° 56°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
82°
83°
109° (2015)
53°
55°
40° (1908)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
2.15"
1.02"
11.30"
6.47"
7.53"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
85°
84°
107° (2015)
60°
55°
40° (1964)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.28"
0.56"
6.59"
4.64"
5.67"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
June 30
July 8
5:09 a.m.
8:49 p.m.
11:44 a.m.
12:08 a.m.
Last
New
July 16
94° 64°
91° 55°
Seattle
78/57
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
92° 61°
July 23
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
82/59
89/63
Tacoma
Moses
79/53
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 89/59
78/54
68/53
80/52
90/58
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
79/55
87/62 Lewiston
90/55
Astoria
84/58
67/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
82/59
Pendleton 77/45
The Dalles 90/56
84/57
90/60
La Grande
Salem
80/49
82/54
Albany
Corvallis 82/52
84/53
John Day
82/53
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
87/56
81/50
81/49
Caldwell
Burns
85/52
81/43
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
67
79
81
68
81
77
81
83
90
82
84
80
77
92
62
65
87
89
84
82
85
82
82
79
80
87
90
Lo
53
44
49
52
43
45
50
54
56
53
46
49
47
58
51
54
56
56
57
59
47
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45
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62
58
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
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.
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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
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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
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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. Sunny to partly cloudy
tomorrow.
Cascades: Sunny today. Pleasant and
warmer in central parts; pleasant in the
south.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at
the coast today; hot in central parts. Sunny
elsewhere.
Friday
SSW 4-8
N 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Low clouds followed by
some sun today. Mostly cloudy tonight.
Today
SSW 4-8
WNW 4-8
2
5
7
7
5
2
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017
-10s
-0s
showers t-storms
0s
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Storms will be scattered about the Southern states and extend from
northern New England to the northern Plains today. Storms can be severe over the central
Plains and middle Mississippi Valley.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 111° in El Centro, Calif.
Low 26° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
97
79
79
90
69
79
84
80
86
88
84
88
95
85
86
102
77
78
84
92
88
85
87
107
87
78
Lo
64
70
70
69
51
71
57
68
74
66
68
73
79
51
71
75
58
58
75
79
70
74
69
82
71
62
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Fri.
Hi
95
80
82
91
80
81
89
86
83
87
81
87
98
72
83
103
74
74
84
92
84
88
80
108
91
80
Lo
65
72
71
71
56
74
62
70
74
68
64
72
78
52
68
72
54
52
74
78
69
75
62
83
72
64
Today
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Hi
Louisville
90
Memphis
89
Miami
91
Milwaukee
85
Minneapolis
81
Nashville
87
New Orleans
83
New York City
85
Oklahoma City
95
Omaha
84
Philadelphia
89
Phoenix
107
Portland, ME
74
Providence
81
Raleigh
87
Rapid City
73
Reno
92
Sacramento
94
St. Louis
95
Salt Lake City
86
San Diego
70
San Francisco
70
Seattle
78
Tucson
105
Washington, DC 91
Wichita
97
Lo
72
75
80
64
62
70
76
72
73
65
71
82
60
67
68
50
61
58
77
59
63
55
57
73
73
69
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Fri.
Hi
88
89
91
74
76
86
89
88
94
82
92
108
77
85
83
76
97
96
89
88
72
71
83
106
91
85
Lo
73
74
80
63
61
73
76
75
67
60
73
82
64
70
70
48
61
59
71
61
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55
56
74
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64
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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