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Land Use Public Issue Forum (LUPIF) Committee

Issue assigned to committee:

• Develop a land use public issue forum booklet specific to Saline County

Members:  LeAnn Haling, Kathy Borgman, (Roy Hunter)*, Tom Johnson, Anna Cox, Chris Fulcher, Ruthie Cramer, Richard Clemens, Becky Plattner, Marc Harris, Mark Belwood, (Wayne McReynolds)*, Mike Dillon, Gerry Snapp, Ron Powers

* Non-core member

Next meeting:

The land use public issue forum booklet is now completed and undergoing final technical editing.  There is no meeting scheduled for the committee as its work is completed.

Minutes and agendas:

January 10, 2000 -- The purpose of this meeting was to make final tweaks to the January 5 draft version of the land use public issue forum booklet.
December 6, 1999 -- Agenda  Minutes
November 23, 1999 -- Agenda  Minutes
November 8, 1999 --  Agenda  Minutes
November 1, 1999 --  Agenda  Minutes (Note that the agenda and minutes for this meeting are actually the agenda and minutes for a special meeting of the entire Steering Committee that served as an organizational meeting for the LUPIF committee.)

Committee documents:

• Balancing Our Heritage with Our Horizons - Produced in February 2000, this booklet is designed to be used in conjunction with land use public issue forums to be held in Saline County in the months of February through June 2000.

• Dr. Powers' December 7, 1999 letter requesting suggestions for land use policy choice arguments

• Latest list of concerns regarding the land use issue, basic values underlying those concerns and possible actions to address concerns

• Framing Steps -- This a draft outline of the procedure to be followed in implementing Land Use Public Issue Forums in Saline County.  This document will likely be revised from time to time.

• Dr. Powers' November 3, 1999 communication to LUPIF committee

• UMC Law Professor Jerry Organ's report on Zoning and Land Use Controls

Pertinent Court Decisions:

• PSF vs. Lincoln Township -- decided by the Missouri Supreme Court on May 27, 1997.  This case involves a township's authority to regulate agriculture under the state's P&Z enabling statutes.  Because the P&Z enabling statutes for counties are very similar to those for townships, this case has relevance to rural Missouri counties.

• CLARENCE BORMANN and CAROLINE BORMANN, Husband and Wife; LEONARD McGUIRE and CECELIA McGUIRE, Husband and Wife, Appellants, vs. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN AND FOR KOSSUTH COUNTY, IOWA -- This September 23, 1998 Iowa Supreme Court decision deals with Iowa's right-to-farm law.  This case likely has a bearing on right-to-farm laws all states, because the case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where the Iowa decision was let stand.  The preceding link is to the full decision; a summary is also available..
• Linn County Health Ordinance Case -- decided by the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on November 23, 1999.  This case deals with the ability of a county to regulate CAFOs by means of a health ordinance.
• THE COUNTY OF KNOX ex rel. ROBERT MASTERSON, Knox County Zoning Department Administrator, et al., Appellants, v. THE HIGHLANDS, L.L.C., et al., Appellees -- This December 2, 1999 Illinois Supreme Court decision is interesting because it deals with many of the same issues that arose in the PSF vs. Lincoln Township case.

Pertinent Missouri State Statutes:

• County Planning and Zoning enabling statutes
  • Agricultural Exemption to County Planning and Zoning
  • Temporary Planning Commission
• County Health Ordinance enabling statute
• Right-to-farm law
• Corporate Farming law

Related web sites:

• Kettering Foundation -The Charles F. Kettering Foundation is a non-profit research foundation dedicated to researching the relationships between democracy and the public.
• Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
• The Farm Foundation is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1933, to improve the well-being of U.S. agriculture and rural people.  A document on the site that was mentioned specifically in the Land Use Conflict booklet is Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies--1998.
• The Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse mission is to make the tools, techniques, and strategies developed to manage growth, accessible to citizens, grassroots organizations, environmentalists, public officials, planners, architects, the media and business leaders. The Clearinghouse identifies, collects, compiles, and disseminates information on the best land use practices, for those listed above.
• The SmartGrowth Network helps create national, regional, and local coalitions to encourage metropolitan development that is environmentally smart, fiscally smart, and economically and socially smart.
• The East-West Gateway Coordinating Council is the metropolitan planning organization and the council of governments in the St. Louis region, but the Council's web site has much information valuable to local governments in general.  The Resources for Local Government page is especially useful.
• President's Council on Sustainable Development: Draft Report to the President -  This January 9 1999 report relates to the Saline County Study.  The chapter on sustainable communities is especially relevant.
• Clean Water Action Plan - This site contains information about the plan to address the nation's remaining water pollution problems.
• The American Farmland Trust (AFT) works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.  One page of the site is devoted to farmland protection tools and techniques.  Included among the links is a link to the American Farmland Trust Farmland Protection Toolbox.
• American Planning Association
• 1000 Friends of Oregon is a nonprofit charitable organization, founded in 1975 by Governor Tom McCall and Henry Richmond as the citizens' voice for land use planning that protects Oregon's quality of life from the effects of growth.
• Innovative Rural Zoning slide show from Union County, Pennsylvania
• The Political Economy Research Center (PERC) is a nationally recognized institute located in Bozeman, Montana. Their primary goal is to provide market solutions to environmental problems. PERC pioneered the approach known as free market environmentalism.
• The Land Use Forum Network, Inc. (LUFNET) is a 501c3, non-profit that teaches a collaborative process for planning land development so that it makes the surrounding neighborhood the best possible place to live.
• Sprawl: The Growing Pains of Suburban America--Issue of the week on Policy.com for Monday, April 26, 1999
• A page with many links to smart land use plans from around the nation on the National Governors' Association web site
• Smart Growth Report of the National Association of Home Builders

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For problems or questions regarding this web contact the Saline County Steering Committee or  Chris Fulcher (CARES).
Last updated: February 24, 2000