(NFORMATION People's Yellow Pages, Seattle Metrocenter 9094th Ave. Seattle, WA 98104 ) People's yellow pages have been increasingly whole-city catalogs, doing what Chambers of Commerce and Welcome Wagons should be doing. This one is really good. Easy to access, sensible subject breakdown, indexes. As well as hundreds of entries, accompanying articles 011 gardening, housing, occult in Seattle, and others help to make this probably the best way to find your way through time and space in Seattle. Recommended for other cities as model. $2.25 plus 25¢ handling. ., THE REG TON.AL MONTHLY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK. FOR PEOPLE IN AND INTERESTED IN THE OZARKS. $5/YEAR. . L.I.O.N. PEI'I'IGREW; ARK. 72752 Community Development Clearinghouse Vermont.Tomorrow 5 State St. Montpelier, VT 05602 With help from CETA they are establishing an information c.learinghouse for community development. Information to include ~lternative energy, energy efficient housing, agricultural self-sufficiency. Plain Dirt, New Life Access P.O. Box 86 Cobham, VA 22929 ' $10/yr. (inclu?es fre~ ad when placed with subsc_ript1on). Another hybridsomewhere between Mother Earth News contacts section and RAIN. Classified ad/entry format. Groups telling each other what the,y are doing and/or people looking for other people. Alternative Celebrations Catalogue Alternatives ·. 701 N. Eugene St. Greensboro, NC 27401 "That's too bad," someone said when the.catalog arrived too late for preChristmas RAIN, but in looking it over I don't feel put of place reviewing it. The theme is celebrations-from April Fool's to birthdays. The whole idea of which ones and how to make days special. Hand-made gifts and gifts that support good causes. Access- in ·usual whole earth style, as well as idea sections per holidays. • Artists/Humanists Directories It would see"'m something's afoot. Rumors and established facvs of no less than 3 local directories and inventories' underway. The Arts and Crafts Society of Portland (616 N.W. 18th Ave., Portland 97209) is compiling an Oregon .directory of artists/craftspeople. The NW Performing Artists Guild has an ongoing inventory of local performing artists (614 S.W. 11th, Portland 97205). The Oregon Joint Humanities Committee (1633 S.W. Park Ave., Portland •97201) is compiling a list of "human-· ists"-which may or may not include artists and crafts people. Two people have told me about a National Endowment for the Arts inventory underway too-no more detail, though. ~AND USE 1000 Friends of Oregon 3709 S.E. Belmont 'Portland, OR 97214 ) This coalition of land use groups and individuals, initiated originally by exGovernor Tom McCall, is a non-profit service organization working to implement Oregon's land use laws, especially Senate Bill 100, as administered by the · Land Conservation and Development Commission. Financed by $100 pledges over the course of a given year. Also newsletter available, $5/yr. LCDC Goals Prot~ct Agricultural Economy: The Land Conservation and Development Commission's Agricultural Lands C'.;oal and Urbanization Goal are why the Senate Bill 100 program is the most important land use ex.periment in America. Properly implemented, these two goals ·can keep Willamette Valley farmlands in production over the long term and can reduce the tax cost of providing public services to new development. . Row the Goals Work: LCDC's Urbanization Goal requires cities to identify their built-up' areas. These are called "Urban Lands." Working with counties, cities are.also to designate land resources surrounding Urban Lands·sufficient to accommodate identified growth and population needs for 15-20 years. These lands are called "Urbanizable Lands." The perimeter Dec 1975 RAIN Page 15 of the Urbanizable Lands is the Urban Growth Boundary. Lands outside the Urban Growth Boundary are "Rural Lands." As defined by ORS Chapter 215, EFU zoning specifies (1) farm uses permitted outright under ORS 215.203(2), (2) non-farm uses permitted outright under ORS 215,213 (1), e.g. schools, churches, growing ·and harvesting of timber, utility facilities, and dwellings in conjunction with farm uses; and (3) non-farm uses permitted conditionally under ORS 215.213(2), e.g., commercial activities in conjunction with farm use; mining and aggregate activities; parks, golf courses, preserves-and campgrounds; and utility generating facilities. QRS 215.213(3) permits single family dwellings n,pt_in conjunction with farm use if an applicant can show that the dwelling would not interfere with adjacen.t farms and is located on land generally unsuitable for the •production of farm crops or livestock. The basic policy is to keep large blocks of agricultural land in production. Willamette Valley counties wiH soon begin a two-step plannjng process. First, they .•will inventory and map agricultural lands. This will identify the hroad natural resource conservation areas of comprehensive plans and roughly shape urban forms. Polk, Yamhill and Washington counties are well along in this first phase. Others, like Clackamas, are behind. Second, the counties will work with cities to identify Urbanizable lands, establish Urban Growth Boundaries and coordinate housing and transportation policits. The ,Agricultural Lands Goal is effective because of two key features:'(!) an objective· definition of Agricultural Land, (Z) a precise standard of uses permitt~d on Agricultural Land-:" Agricultural Land is land of predomiQktly Class I-IV soils, as defined by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Soil classes are criteria of producti~ity. "Rural" Agricultural Land (i.e., Class I-IV soils outside Urban Growth Boundaties) is to be zoned exclusive farm use (EFU). (From: 1000 Friends of Oregon . Newsletter) ) ACCESS Na~ional Citizens Co,nmittee for Broadcasting . 1346.Connecticut Ave. N.W~ • ,. Suite 415 Washington, DC 20036 . This is a good-way to keep track of issues in public broadcasting. Watchdogging the FCC and network television. Offshoot of the work done by Nicholas Johnson (Talking [!ack to Your Television), who is the chairperson of the c;ommittee. Access is staffed by students who get paid $50/week to do research, edit the magazine, etc., in 3-4 month periods. Write for details. Basic price is $24/24 issues, $12 student rate. Continued on page 17
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