Plans to enact steep slope regulations are far from a new conversation. Village Council slated the initiative for consideration in 2020 but the COVID-19 pandemic quickly overshadowed these plans ...

“Siegmund’s steep-slope equipment was extremely useful in establishing fire line (in dicey areas),” said Brent O’Nion, Oregon Department of Forestry’s Whitewater Fire branch director.

The steep slope ordinance was long in coming. It first was considered in 2020 until being tabled for a time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Winnetka residents hardly were of one mind about the new ...

It was a short move -- from one side of Chanhassen's Lotus Lake to the other -- but for Tricia Frostad, the new place meant "initiation by fire." Leaving a log cabin with no yard to speak of in ...

CONCRETE — A hillside rises 1,300 feet within less than a mile, right behind 83 homes known as Sauk River Estates. If a logging company carries out its plans to cut 54 acres on this steep slope ...

The new regulations prohibit non-conforming structures within the steep slope zone, defined as the area between the toe of the bluff and the point where the 27-degree steep slope line meets the ...