Wednesday, February 18, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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999 Public Notice
NOTICE OF
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Notice is hereby given that the
City of Sisters will hold two
public hearings at Sisters City
Hall, 520 E. Cascade Avenue,
Sisters (mailing address PO Box
39, Sisters, OR 97759) to
consider a Text Amendment (TA
14-07). The first hearing will be
held with the Sisters Planning
Commission on March 5, 2015 at
5:30 p.m. The second hearing
will be held with the Sisters City
Council on March 12, 2015 at
7:00 p.m. All relevant provisions
of the City of Sisters Urban Area
Comprehensive Plan and City of
Sisters Development Code will
be reviewed for compliance.
Please contact the City of Sisters,
Pauline Hardie, Community
Development Director, at (541)
323-5208
or
at
phardie@ci.sisters.or.us for more
information.
File #: Text Amendment 14-07
(TA 14-07)
Applicant: City of Sisters
Location: Applicable Zoning
Districts
Project Description:
The
proposal includes a Development
Code
amendment
to
the
definition and regulations of
Formula Food Establishments in
the Downtown Commercial (Ch.
2.4), Highway Commercial (Ch.
2.5), North Sisters Business Park
(Ch.
2.14)
and
Tourist
Commercial (Ch. 2.12) Districts.
The proposal also includes
amending Section 4.1.700.H. to
require Type II Decisions to be
forwarded
to
Planning
LETTERS
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environment.
I am hoping that this can happen in the next
few months. I will make sure The Nugget stays
fully informed of this work and that everyone,
trail supporters as well as objectors to the
last trail process, have the opportunity to be
involved in the community-wide discussion.
I believe that it is my role as a Deschutes
County Commissioner to bring people
together, to listen and represent their interests.
Alan Unger
Deschutes County Commissioner
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To the Editor:
Jim Holcomb was one of the finest teachers
I have ever had.
He made a lasting contribution to my life
and opened my eyes and mind in many ways.
From J. Krishnamurti to Carl von Clausewitz,
Jim chose-thought provoking material and
facilitated significant discussions.
He encouraged me to improve my writing
skills and approach assignments with open-
ness and enthusiasm. He teased me about
being a “long-hair” and I teased him right
back about owning a hot-pink mountain bike.
I loved Jim and trusted that he loved hav-
ing me a student. Thank you for everything,
Mr. Holcomb.
Aaron Barker
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To the Editor:
If someone were to have asked me five
years ago: What would be your fantasy addi-
tion to Pine Meadow Ranch? I would have said
a center-pivot irrigation system that would
improve my crop and save water. But I never
thought we could afford one – until I talked
to folks from the Upper Deschutes Watershed
Council and Deschutes River Conservancy.
Central Oregon ranchers and environmen-
tal groups often have very different perspec-
tives. But last year, Pine Meadow Ranch har-
vested the best hay crop we have ever seen
thanks to a water conservation project on
Whychus Creek.
If you ask any farmer or rancher like
myself, we would all say the same thing about
water: keep it flowing for us and don’t let any-
one mess with our water rights. That’s why I
Commission and Type III
Decisions to be forwarded to City
Council during the appeal period
so they know about the Decision
and can call it up for review if
they choose to do so. The
amendment
also
includes
permitting home occupations
with special provisions in the
Downtown Commercial (Ch.
2.4), Highway Commercial (Ch.
2.5) and North Sisters Business
Park (Ch. 2.14) Districts. The
amendment
also
includes
permitting consignment vehicle
sales in the Light Industrial (Ch.
2.6) District and permitting
distilleries in the North Sisters
Business Park (Ch. 2.14).
Applicable Criteria: Sisters
Comprehensive
Plan
and
Development
Code
(SDC):
Chapter
1.3
(Definitions),
Chapter
2.4
(Downtown
Commercial),
Chapter
2.5
(Highway Commercial), Chapter
was skeptical when we started hearing about
water conservation ideas that would impact
our ranch.
But then I realized we agreed on some-
thing: inefficient irrigation systems don’t
benefit anyone. Ranchers and fish both lose.
So over the course of five years, many long
meetings, and exploration of several potential
solutions we worked together and removed
the last remaining concrete dam on Whychus
Creek, constructed a new point of diversion,
and installed a center-pivot.
Everybody wins.
Cris Converse
Pine Meadow Ranch
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2.6 (Light Industrial), Chapter
2.12
(Tourist
Commercial),
Chapter 2.14 (North Sisters
Business Park), Chapter 4.1
(Types of Applications and
Review Procedures), and Chapter
4.7 (Land Use District Map and
Text Amendments).
Questions or concerns regarding
this application should be
directed to the Community
Development Department at
Sisters City Hall. Public oral or
written testimony is invited and
that the hearing will be held
under
Development
Code
Chapter 4.1 procedures and rules
of procedure adopted by the City
Council and are available at City
Hall. Failure to raise an issue in
person, or by letter before or
during the hearings, or failure to
provide statements or evidence
sufficient
to
afford
the
decision-maker an opportunity to
respond to the issue, may
preclude an appeal based on that
issue with the State Land Use
Board of Appeals. All evidence
relied upon by the hearings body
to make this decision is in the
public record and is available for
public review at the Sisters City
Hall, 520 E. Cascade Avenue,
Sisters, Oregon. Copies of this
evidence can be obtained at a
reasonable cost from the City. A
copy of the City’s staff report
shall be available for review upon
request at no cost at least seven
days before the hearing.
TTY services are available at the
Sisters City Hall. The City needs
at least seven days notice if
possible to accommodate this
request. Please contact Kathy
Nelson, City Recorder, at (541)
323-5213 to arrange. The City of
Sisters City Hall building is a
fully
handicapped-accessible
facility.
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To the Editor:
Thank goodness for Chuck Humpreys!
People in the community need to start call-
ing the opponents of the proposed paved trails
to Black Butte Ranch and Crossroads by what
they really are: selfish individuals who are
opposing the trail because they don’t want it
near their property. We all own the National
Forest, but these individuals are treating it as
their own private landholding.
The letter from Joanne Anttila, who has
written multiple letters to the editor plus an
editorial piece, has made it clear her opposi-
tion to the trail. She wrote in her most recent
letter “Let’s learn from these mistakes, stay
transparent, find common ground, side-step
name-calling and practice respect.” I have
attended a number of public meetings where
there were vitriolic comments made by the
opposition — including Ms. Anttila. Yes, Ms.
Anttila, I agree with your statement…please
start practicing it.
As to the letter from Greg Werts, do you
really think that Chuck Humpreys alone
choose to allocate $25,000 of Sisters Trails
Alliance’s money? The Trails Alliance had a
board of seven members at the time of that
unanimous decision. Having attended the
final meeting with the Forest Service, I per-
sonally witnessed the trail opponents taking a
“winner-takes-all scenario,” not Sisters Trails
Alliance, who was open to compromise and in
fact had already made compromises such as
relocating the trail more than 100 yards away
from the nearest home in the subdivision.
Repeating falsehoods does not make them
true.
See LETTErS on page 31
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