Remember Measure 4-131? You Know, The Pipeline Issue The Anti-LNG Element Brainwashed The Voters In Clatsop County to Support And Vote "NO" 2 to 1?

GRP: Well, could it be this is it coming at us again all wrapped in a new package to get that Bradwood LNG, 36" Diameter High Pressure Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline through?

High Pressure Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines through Wetlands? Good Lord! If what I'm reading on this is anywhere near correct, the issue over OPR zoning and NG Pipelines was mere childs play compared to what this circus is going to be.

Can't wait to see how this one has been rewritten to attempt to justify the changing of the Zoning and County Comprehensive Plan to appease Texas based Energy Speculator, Northern Star Natural Gas.

Excerpt from a March, 2009 Daily astorian Article:"The J & S Reserve property is a 121-acre tract made up of 47 acres zoned residential agriculture-1 and 74.24 acres zoned OPR. The landowner is requesting a change that would cut down the RA-1 zone to 21 acres and change the remaining 100 acres to lake and wetland. The zone change would reduce the number of possible dwellings on the tract from 27 to 14.VandenHeuvel said the change from OPR to LW wouldn't be necessary unless Bradwood's natural gas transmission pipeline was part of the plan."Lake and wetland is almost identical to OPR except for one important change," said VandenHeuvel. "Pipelines are allowed in the lakes and wetland zoning and not allowed in the OPR. That change is absolutely unnecessary unless you are to run a pipeline through there. There's no way this is not related to the LNG pipeline."


Press Release from Clatsop County

ZONE CHANGE HEARING POSTPONED

A public hearing scheduled to be held before the Clatsop County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, Aug. 26 on a proposed zone change has been postponed.
The land-use application, from Mark Barnes on behalf of J & S Reserve, seeks to re-zone 121.59 acres of property in Westport. The applicant wants to change the current zoning mix from 47.35 acres Residential-Agriculture-1 and 74.24 acres Open Space Parks and Recreation to 21.85 acres Residential Agriculture-1 and 99.74 acres Lake and Wetlands. The application also includes an exception to Statewide Planning Goal 14 – Urbanization.
No new date has been set for the hearing.