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Wednesday, July 1, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Council upholds PC decision
By sue stafford
Correspondent
Developer Peter Hall won
affirmation from the Sisters
City Council on Thursday to
move forward with his resi-
dential project at the north end
of Pine Street.
The Planning Commission
decision relating to the pro-
posed Clear Pine subdivision
(MP 15-01) had been called
up by two Council members
to allow time for several con-
cerns to be addressed. This
situation has led to a new pro-
cess being established so that
when a notice of a Planning
Commission decision is sent
out to stakeholders and the
City Council, there will also
be included the conditions of
approval.
City Councilors were faced
with a Mount Everest stack of
papers related to the matter at
last week’s meeting.
To be exact, their note-
books of materials relating to
this and issues for discussion
and decision were 497 pages
in length. The agenda was
lengthy, with the Peter Hall
decision only one of 19 sepa-
rate items for discussion and/
or vote.
Councilor David Asson
voiced his frustration with the
quantity of material to study
with a short time to review it.
“We can’t prepare for such
a topic. I’m discouraged about
getting all this just today,” he
said.
In an attempt to partially
remedy the situation, staff
agreed from now on to pro-
vide the councilors with a
one-page agenda item sum-
mary with salient points about
each topic.
The call-up on the Peter
Hall decision came because
the Council needed clarifica-
tion regarding the timing of the
provision for affordable-hous-
ing (AH) units. In developer
Hall’s testimony last Thursday
night he reported that “the
AH units will be located in
the multifamily (MFR) sec-
tion of the subdivision. I will
have to find a partner for the
site plan of the MFR since I
am not an affordable-housing
developer.”
In the original 2007 devel-
opment agreement there
was no condition regarding
the timing of when the AH
units were to be constructed
once subsequent plans were
approved. The April 30
Planning Commission deci-
sion kept the eight-unit AH
requirement and accepted
staff ’s recommendation
regarding the timing sequence.
According to the April 30
Planning Commission deci-
sion, Hall or a third-party
developer has 24 months from
the date Hall obtains a build-
ing permit for Phase One (14
lots) to submit a site plan for
the MFR zoned area of the
development, including the
eight AH units. Then, within
24 months of the approval of
the MFR site plan, Hall or
a third-party AH developer
must make the eight units
available for rent or sale. So
it could be four years before
those eight units are on the
market. This was the type of
timing requested by Hall.
Phase One of the Clear
Pine subdivision is scheduled
to break ground this month.
In the 2007 agreement, Hall
was required to build eight
AH units in Tract A based
on approval for a total of 62
residential units in Tract A
and 11 additional lots outside
of Tract A. Council’s approval
on Thursday night grants the
right to construct 77 single-
family homes in Tract A, none
of which will be AH, and a
minimum of 22 and a maxi-
mum of about 50 units in the
MFR zone, including the eight
AH units.
Sisters resident Ed Protas
testified against the Council
upholding the Planning
Commission approval of
Clear Pine as written.
“I am opposed to approval
of the application. We have
a lack of affordable housing,
and this decision exacerbates
it,” he stated.
Hall pointed out that if the
AH is not built as agreed, he
can’t go forward with the other
phases of his subdivision.
However, the written copy
of the Planning Commission
decision is not the same as
the decision discussed by the
commission at their April 30
meeting or recorded in the
minutes of that meeting.
The Planning Commission
had said that if the third phase
was built out, there would be
no more permits issued until
the AH units were started,
which appears to be Hall’s
understanding. That provi-
sion was not included in the
written decision that was pub-
lished and mailed out to stake-
holders. The minutes from the
meeting indicated that Patrick
Davenport, community devel-
opment director, came for-
ward and clarified that the AH
units are to be provided within
36 months of approval by City
Council of the revised devel-
opment agreement.
City Planning Director
Davenport emphasized to The
Nugget on Monday that the
terms and conditions placed
on Hall regarding afford-
able housing are “very easily
enforceable.” If Hall does not
meet requirements, the City
could withhold other approv-
als and/or building permits,
Davenprot said.
Council voted unani-
mously to accept the Planning
C o m m i s s i o n ’s d e c i s i o n
regarding the final conditions
of approval for Clear Pine.
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