A proposal intended to expedite land use and development permitting would restrict the types of evidence state agencies could use to justify protection of threatened and endangered species.

Every piece of land carries a story of development, transformation, and human impact. From expanding urban centers to shifting agricultural zones, land use plays a crucial role in shaping both local ...

A century of increasingly restrictive zoning has priced out lower-cost housing, and new limits on how homes are used risk ...

Nine years ago, state lawmakers set up a test. The question was whether giving slack for rules around a pillar of Oregon’s land use system — the urban growth boundary — could provide a new tool for ...

The ability to acquire cheap, fertile land drove much of American history. Ordinary people — many of them recent immigrants — could obtain land on which to sustain families with very little more than ...