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State Clears Hurdle for 450-Home Mixed-Income Community in Northeast Redmond

Oregon lawmakers continue to test whether bending urban growth boundary rules can spur affordable housing construction
Avatar photo by Clayton Franke

A state land use policy board agreed to tweak the rules of a 10-year-old affordable housing experiment that should help lift a 450-home development in northeast Redmond off the ground.   Utilities are set and new streets will be paved this spring at a 40-acre site in northwest Redmond, slated to become a new community called Northpoint Vista. But much of the home building […]

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YAC buffers and Sex Offenders

Attorneys spar at county hearing
Jeremy Dickman

In October, the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals decided that the Deschutes County Commissioners’ definition of a “youth activity center” amounted to an unreasonable restriction on marijuana farms. Since then, I have to admit I’ve been anxiously awaiting another Deschutes County Board meeting to put marijuana land-use on their agenda. On Dec. 11, I […]

Posted inOpinion

If Residents Want an Opt-Out on Marijuana, Let Residents Put It on the Ballot Themselves

An opt-out measure is looming, costing taxpayers money on a question they’ve already answered
The Source Staff

Ahead of the November 2018 election, then-candidate Patti Adair ran for Deschutes County Commissioner on two key platforms: Fiscal conservativism and being anti-marijuana. Since winning that election—by a narrow margin—and serving on the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners, she’s held true to being against marijuana growing in the county. On being a fiscal conservative, however, […]

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Bend City Council Votes to Limit Vacation Rentals

Avatar photo Erin Rook

Last night, after hours of deliberation, a battle-weary city council voted unanimously to support the first reading of ordinances including a new short-term rental licensing program and changes to land use code that limit the concentration of what are frequently referred to as vacation rentals.  Under the first ordinance, which passed with relative ease, new […]

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Putting Together the Puzzle Pieces

Deschutes Land Trust has an ambitious plan to give Whychus Creek back to the public
Avatar photo Phil Busse

On Oct 1, the Deschutes Land Trust publicly announced an ambitious goal to fully reclaim and restore Whychus Creek, a cold water tributary that runs northeast from Sisters into the Deschutes River. In an exclusive interview with the Source, Executive Director Brad Chalfant and Associate Director Zak Boone excitedly laid out a three year campaign […]

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