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Article: Oregon legislators eye fresh funds for Big Look Task Force
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- Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2007
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Oregon's Big Look Task Force may get the opportunity to finish
the job it originally set out to do: review Oregon's land-use
planning system.
The task force, formed to review Oregon's land-use planning
system to see if it needed revamping, was hobbled after its funding
was slashed during the latter part of the 2007 session of the state
Legislature.
Now, however, legislators say they want to revive the
commission's funding during a supplemental 2008 legislative session.
But many wonder how effective the task force can be after such a
long period of inactivity.
"(The task force) ground to a halt, and that set us back," task
force member Ken Bailey said, adding the time lost is a large ...