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Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

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Oregon's first statewide law placed growth boundaries on cities. Cities cannot expand beyond those borders unless they make a request and justify it. Measure would also provide $200 million in grants to chipmakers. Farmers, conservationists are deeply worried about the proposal and what it will mean.

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Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

For exactly 50 years, Oregon’s farms and forests have been protected from urban sprawl by the nation’s first statewide law creating urban growth boundaries. But now, a bill being considered

1 year ago·United States

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Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

For exactly 50 years, Oregon’s farms and forests have been protected from urban sprawl by the nation’s first statewide law creating urban growth boundaries

1 year ago·United States

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Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — For exactly 50 years, Oregon’s farms and forests have been protected from urban sprawl by the nation’s first statewide law creating urban growth boundaries. But now, a bill being considered in Oregon’s Legislature could authorize the governor to unilaterally expand boundaries as part of the state’s quest to lure chip companies and provide land for them to build their factories. The meas…

1 year ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — Aaron Nichols walked past rows of kale growing on his farm, his knee-high brown rubber boots speckled with some of the richest soil on earth, and gazed with concern toward fields in the distance. Just over the horizon loomed a gigantic building of the semiconductor chipmaker Intel. For exactly 50 years, the farms and forests that ring Oregon’s metropolitan centers have been protected f…

1 year ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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Winnipeg Free Press

Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — Aaron Nichols walked past rows of kale growing on his farm, his knee-high brown rubber boots speckled with some of the richest soil on earth, […]

1 year ago·Winnipeg, Canada

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National Post

Factory or farm? Oregon may alter land use for chipmakers

NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) -- Aaron Nichols walked past rows of kale growing on his farm, his knee-high brown rubber boots speckled with some of the richest soil on earth, and gazed with concern toward fields in the distance. Just over the horizon loomed a gigantic building of the semiconductor chipmaker Intel.

1 year ago·Canada

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