People and the Land: An Oral History of Oregon’s Statewide Land Use Planning Program

"People and the Land" is a collaboration between the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Portland State University. The goal of this project is to document and preserve a record of Oregon’s land use program through the recording, transcription, collection and archiving of personal oral histories.

The project is intended to enable Oregon’s statewide planning agency to make a significant, abiding contribution to the body of literature that records and analyzes the politics, policy, and practices that make Oregon's land use program unique.

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Interview with Bill Grile and Phil Quarterman

Bill Grile, Phil Quarterman, and Michael Rupp

Bill Grile and Phil Quarterman were interviewed by Michael Rupp on August 6, 2021 in Springfield, Oregon.
Interview with Rob Hallyburton

Rob Hallyburton and Michael Rupp

Rob Hallyburton was interviewed on April 19, 2024, by Michael Rupp in Dundee, Oregon.
Interview with Michael Houck

Michael Houck, Claire Puchy, and Sy Adler

Michael Houck was interviewed by Claire Puchy and Sy Adler on November 6, 2023.

Houck was the urban naturalist for the Audubon Society in Portland, Oregon, for 35 years starting in 1982. He is now Director Emeritus of the Urban Greenspaces Institute.
Interview with Eldon Hout

Eldon Hout, Michael Rupp, Sy Adler, and Jim Knight

Interview with Eldon Hout by Michael Rupp, Jim Knight, and Sy Adler on June 20, 2018. Eldon Hout was Oregon's first ocean program manager and worked with the Ocean Resources Management Task Force.
Interview with Allen Johnson

Allen Johnson and Sy Adler

Allen (Al) Johnson was interviewed by Sy Adler on June 2, 2017.

Al Johnson is a retired Oregon land use attorney who founded and practiced with the firm Johnson, Kloos and Sherton (originally Johnson and Kloos) in the 1980s and 1990s. He worked as a hearings official for the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission in the 1970s. From 1993 until his retirement, he represented public- and private-sector clients throughout the state. After his retirement in 2010, he served as a member of the Urban Growth Boundary Residential Lands Technical Advisory Committee for the city of Bend, Oregon.
Interview with Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson and Michael Rupp

Jim Johnson was interviewed by Michael Rupp on September 17, 2019, in Portland, Oregon.

Johnson has been a county land use planner for Wasco County, OR, and Klickitat County, WA. He also worked for the Columbia River Gorge Commission before becoming a staff member with the Department of Land Conservation and Development, where he focused on farm and forest land protection. Johnson later became the Oregon Department of Agriculture’s Land Use and Water Planning Coordinator.
Interview with Stephen Kafoury

Stephen Kafoury and Dillon Mahmoudi

Interview with Stephen Kafoury by Dillon Mahmoudi on May 29, 2015. Stephen Kafoury was an Oregon State Representative and served as the Chair of the Joint Committee on Land Use during the adoption of the statewide land use program in the early 1970s.
Interview with Roger Kirchner

Roger Kirchner and Jim Knight

Interview with Roger Kirchner by Jim Knight on August 12, 2015. Roger Kirchner was a founding staff member of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and served on the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC).
Interview with James B. (Jim) Knight

James B. Knight and Michael Rupp

James Knight was interviewed on April 24, 2017, by Michael Rupp.

Jim Knight's career in public agencies spanned thirty-three years. From 1970 to 1974 he worked in Buffalo, New York, for the Erie County Division of Planning and for the Office for the Aging. In June 1974 he joined the Oregon Department of Land Conservation (DLCD), which administers Oregon's land use planning program. He retired from DLCD in March 2003.
Interview with Brent L. Lake

Brent L. Lake and Jim Knight

Interview with Brent Lake by Jim Knight on July 24, 2015. Brent Lake began his service with the Department of Land Conservation and Development in 1974. He helped draft twelve of the first fourteen statewide planning goals and served as a field representative of the department to cities and counties throughout Oregon.
Panel Discussion: 1000 Friends of Oregon v. LCDC Curry County

Robert Liberty, Jerry Herbage, Jon Jinings, and Chuck Nordstrom

Robert Liberty, Jon Jinings, Chuck Nordstrom, and Jerry Herbage engage in a panel discussion on the 1985-86 land use case 1000 Friends of Oregon v. LCDC (Curry County).
Interview with Robert Liberty

Robert Liberty and Kevin Pozzi

Interview with Robert Liberty by Kevin Pozzi on August 13, 2015. Robert Liberty served as staff attorney and as Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, as an elected Metro Councilor in the Portland region, and as the Director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative at the University of Oregon.
Interview with Ted Lorensen

Ted Lorensen, Lloyd Chapman, James B. Knight, and Michael Rupp

Ted Lorensen was interviewed by Michael Rupp, Lloyd Chapman, and Jim Knight on October 20, 2017, in Portland, Oregon.

Lorensen was an Assistant State Forester with the Oregon Department of Forestry. He was instrumental in assisting DLCD in amending Statewide Planning Goal 4 (Forest Lands) and establishing land use rules for forest lands.
Interview with Greg MacPherson

Greg MacPherson and Bob Rindy

Greg MacPherson was interviewed by Bob Rindy on June 1, 2023, in Portland, Oregon.

MacPherson spoke at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Senate Bill 100 at Portland State University on May 24, 2023. His remarks are included in an accompanying PDF file.

MacPherson is the son of former Senator Hector MacPherson, who is credited as being the main sponsor of Senate Bill 100. He was a former member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Chair of the Land Conservation and Development Commission.
Interview with Richard Mathews

Richard Mathews, Michael Rupp, and Jim Knight

Richard (Dick) Mathews began his career with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development in 1975, and was the department's Coastal Program manager. He was interviewed on May 15, 2017, by Michael Rupp and Jim Knight.
Interview with Don Mazziotti (on Goal 10)

Don Mazziotti and Jim Irvine

Interview with Don Mazziotti in 2017 by Jim Irvine focused on Goal 10 of Oregon's Statewide Land Use Planning Program. Mazziotti headed the Portland Development Commission from 2001 to 2005, served as Portland’s chief planner in the 1970s and acted as chief information officer for Oregon in the late 1990s. (Second half of interview missing.)
Interview with Janet McLennan

Janet McLennan and Kevin Pozzi

Interview with Janet McLennan by Kevin Pozzi on June 11, 2015. Janet McLennan was House Counsel for the Oregon House Committee on Land Use and the Environment during the 1973 legislative session, during the passage of Senate Bill 100.
Interview with Lee Miller

Lee Miller and Kevin Pozzi

Interview with Lee Miller by Kevin Pozzi on August 12, 2015. Lee Miller's career in land use includes positions as Director of the Lane County Planning Department and as Chair of the Oregon Planning Director's Association.
Interview with Terry Moore (on Goal 10)

Terry Moore and Bob Rindy

Terry Moore was interviewed by Bob Rindy on June 20, 2017. Their interview discusses Mr. Moore's long career as a planning consultant in Oregon and his perspectives on how Oregon's statewide land use planning program influenced urban growth, housing development, and affordable housing in the state.
Reflections on the First 50 Years of Oregon's Pioneering Statewide Land Use Planning, 1973-2023

Arthur C. Nelson

Arthur C. Nelson, emeritus professor of urban planning and real estate development at the University of Arizona, presents an assessment of the impact of Senate Bill 100 on land use in Oregon over the past fifty years, and of the challenges ahead to 2050 and beyond.
Interview with Chuck Nordstrom

Charles Nordstrom and Hui Rodomsky

Chuck Nordstrom was interviewed by Hui Rodomsky on September 28, 2022.

Nordstrom was a research geologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and later became the Curry County Planning Director during the preparation and acknowledgment of Curry County’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan.
Interview with Jim Owens

Jim Owens, Claire Puchy, and Michael Rupp

Jim Owens was interviewed by Claire Puchy and Michael Rupp on February 15, 2024, in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Owens was a former Polk County land use planner and was appointed to the Land Conservation and Development Commission’s Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee. He became a partner in the planning consulting firm, Cogan-Owens-Cogan.
Interview with Steve Pfeiffer

Steven Pfeiffer and Michael Rupp

Steve Pfeiffer was interviewed by Michael Rupp on July 21, 2022.

Pfeiffer was a land use attorney and former Chair of the Land Conservation and Development Commission. Before becoming an attorney, he began his career as an intern with 1000 Friends of Oregon. He then became a land use planner with Klamath County and the city of Klamath Falls before attending the University of Oregon School of Law.
Interview with Claire Puchy

Claire Puchy, Katherine Daniels, and Jim Knight

Claire Puchy was interviewed by Katherine Daniels and Jim Knight on July 19, 2018, at the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development offices in Salem, Oregon. Puchy was a plan review specialist for DLCD and worked with the department on writing and implementing numerous statewide land use planning goals, particularly those concerning the protection of natural resources and wildlife.
Interview with Hans Radtke

Hans D. Radtke and Hui Rodomsky

Dr. Hans Radtke was interviewed by Hui Rodomsky on September 20, 2024, in Yachats, Oregon. Dr. Radtke is a natural resources economist with an extensive understanding of Oregon's coastal economy and environment.
Interview with Henry Richmond

Henry Richmond and James Sitzman

Interview with Henry Richmond by Jim Sitzman on June 1, 2015. Henry Richmond co-founded 1000 Friends of Oregon in 1974 and served as the group's first executive director for over 19 years.
Interview with Bob Rindy (on Goal 10)

Bob Rindy and Sy Adler

Interview with Bob Rindy by Sy Adler on May 16, 2017 focused on Goal 10 of Oregon's Statewide Land Use Planning Program. Bob Rindy is Legislative Coordinator for the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, the agency that administers the statewide land-use planning program set forth in 1973 with Senate Bill 100.
Interview with Mitch Rohse

Mitch Rohse and Jim Knight

Interview with Mitch Rohse by Jim Knight on August 6, 2015. Mitch Rohse was Planning Director of Polk County, served on the staff of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development for 20 years between 1980-2000, and worked as a planning consultant for Oregon coastal and rural counties.
Interview with James Ross

James Ross and Jim Knight

Interview with Jim Ross by Jim Knight on June 15, 2015. Jim Ross worked in land use planning in Marion County and served as the director of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development.
Interview with Allan Rumbaugh

Allan Rumbaugh and Hui Rodomsky

Allan Rumbaugh was interviewed on May 17, 2023 by Hui Rodomsky in Tigard, Oregon.

Rumbaugh is the former General Manager of the Port of Coos Bay, Oregon, and a former planner with the Coos County Planning Department.