Useful Links
Sharing our dedication to Cottage Grove
- City of Cottage Grove
This is the official web site of the City of Cottage Grove. Here you will find the City Council schedule and agendas, the Planning Commission schedule and agenda, and the Friday Update, Cottage Grove's weekly electronic newsletter, which will keep you up to date on all facets of city activities.
In addition you will find the names and terms of each city councilor and planning commissioner along with contact information. You will also find email addresses for city staff and descriptions of the activities of each city department.
Click here to find the Community Development Department. They are responsible for overseeing and implementing community development and land use policy in Cottage Grove.
- Cottage Grove 2037 Visioning
Cottage Grove 2037 is a community-wide visioning process sponsored by the City of Cottage Grove and many other community organizations. The ultimate goal of Cottage Grove 2037 is to set a road map for the future with input from those that live, work and play here. It is an opportunity for the community to shape the kind of community we and future generations will be proud to call home. It is not a CITY plan, but rather a COMMUNITY plan, with responsibility for development and implementation shared among a wide range of local partners and supporters. Take the survey - get involved!
- Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
This is the agency that implements and oversees land use planning law in Oregon. Click here to read the State-wide planning goals and the State Statutes that regulate land use planning and decisions. Find out what the State has to say about the role of citizen involvement in community planning.
- The Goal One Coalition
Goal One is citizen involvement. This group provides citizens with the legal expertise they need to be true partners in land use decisions.
- 1000 Friends of Oregon
1000 Friends of Oregon was formed after the passage of Oregon's pioneering land use laws under Governor Tom McCall's administration in 1975. They believe in:- building livable urban and rural communities,
- protecting family farms and forests, and
- conserving natural and scenic areas.
- Envision Oregon
Envision Oregon is insuring citizens have a voice in the "Big Look", Oregon's effort to re-examine the state's land use practices. Envision Oregon promotes collaborative efforts by Oregonians to envision and achieve a more prosperous and livable Oregon for current and future generations. Click here to get involved at the State level.
- LandWatch Lane County
Landwatch Lane County helps preserve farm and forest land in Lane County and supports Oregon's land use laws.
- Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association
Find out what's important to Oregon's Planners. Some of the site is for members only, but the white papers are available to the public. Read them to get an overview of planning issues from the planner's perspective in the State of Oregon.
- Smart Growth America
Smart Growth America is a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national organizations advocating on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation, neighborhood revitalization and more. Their state- and regional-level members are community-based organizations working to save treasured landscapes while making our towns and cities ever more livable and lovable.