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Building Bend’s Future

Does the Urban Growth Boundary hold hope for affordable housing?

Erin RookAugust 5, 2015March 27, 2024

Bend has a housing problem—or, more precisely, with rental vacancy rates less than half a percent, an affordable housing shortage. And some city leaders believe that loosening up the Urban Growth Boundary could provide some relief from that chokehold. It is a basic theory that makes sense: Opening up more land for development will provide […]

Opinion

Hold the Line

The Source StaffJune 11, 2014February 2, 2023

So often—and by its very nature—firefighting is reactionary. But with the Two Bulls Fire, there also has been an impressive show of some of the precautionary measures taken to manage forest fires, on several fronts. The foremost being the prolific use of social media. As the fire spread, so did the city’s public information efforts. […]

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