Henry Richmond, founder of 1000 Friends of Oregon, has died OregonLive.com 8 hrs ago The Oregonian, oregonlive.com
Henry Richmond, founder of the land-use advocacy group 1000 Friends of Oregon and a leading supporter of Oregon’s much-touted land-use planning system, died June 21. He was 78.
He died suddenly at his family’s farm near Newberg following a heart attack, OPB reported.
Richmond had a national reputation as an expert on land-use policy. As chair of the National Growth Management Leadership Project, a nonprofit coalition of states looking at growth issues, he once told an Ohio audience, “How development happens matters to communities.” He promoted land-use planning as a way for communities to take control over their growth, rather than the other way around.