Geoff Reynolds

Please note that the NeighborhoodImpact web site states that the Heat Pump Grant and Rebate program is currently full. They are no longer accepting applications for this program.

Bend residents can "affirm" all the footbriges they want as long as they are inside the city limits/UGB, inside the BPRD service area, outside the designated wild and scenic river and outside the wildlife reserve. Otherwise support will be considerably less than "overwhelming" (just like last time).

It might be better to have discussions about whether a larger commission would be more balanced, more cost effective, and what taxpayers will "get out of it" before it gets on the ballot rather than after.

As Mr. White notes there are thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines that traverse uninhabited, rural lands where there is little chance of injury from accidents. This is not the case where the gas pipeline runs under residential developments, such as the Stevens Road tract, raising the chances and consequences of an accident. As for his automobile reference, I doubt that those injured at the China Hat/Knott Rd. intersection are consoled by the remote likelyhood displayed in national statistics.

Mr. Chokshi, thanks for the linked write up and for serving on the committee. The proposals seem well though out, although it's difficult to see how "Payment in Lieu of Preservation" would actually keep or add trees.

And I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich, while it buries the poor
You're power-hungry, sellin' soldiers in a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh?
I don't need your civil war
Ooh, no, no, no, no, no, no

Building on top of or around natural gas pipelines is a bad idea:

From 2010 to 2016 Gas companies reported 35 explosions and 32 ignitions at their transmission pipelines, according to federal records. The explosions killed 17 people and injured 86. A September 2010 explosion in San Bruno, Calif., killed eight and injured 51 people.