Rural development course

Ford Institute Leadership Program group chooses public art …
The Oregonian
The group's work is part of the Ford Institute Leadership Program, a five-year development course for rural communities with a population less than 30,000 in Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. Forest Grove is currently in the third year of its cycle.

Land use grand bargain a bad deal for group planning development …
The Oregonian
But they were, as it turned out, caught in a much larger land-use quandary that would see that property move from developable to rural reserves — off-limits to development, for the time being — during the course of a weekend last month. Investor …