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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Ore. senate considers
gun-control bill
By Jonathan J. Cooper
Associated Press
SALEM (AP) — An
Oregon Senate committee
will hear public testimony
this week on a proposal by
gun-control advocates to
require a background check
any time someone sells or
gives a firearm to another
person who isn’t a relative.
Here are five things to know
about Oregon’s universal
background-check proposal:
The bill requires gun buy-
ers and sellers who aren’t
related to visit a licensed gun
dealer that can, for a fee, run
a background check through
the Oregon State Police.
Oregon law prohibits giving a
gun to minors, felons, people
with recent convictions for
violent behavior or those who
have been found by a court to
have a mental illness.
If someone tries to buy a
gun but fails a background
check, the state police would
be required to notify the local
sheriff and police chief.
Background checks would
not be required when some-
one transfers to a gun to these
relatives: spouse or domestic
partner, parent or stepparent,
child or stepchild, sibling,
grandparent, grandchild, aunt
or uncle, first cousin, niece or
nephew.
The seller of a gun would
face a misdemeanor for a first
offense, punishable by up
See guN CoNtroL on page 32
Plans dropped for big
wind farm in Oregon
BEND (AP) — State regu-
lators say plans for a big wind
farm in north-central Oregon
have been scrapped.
The Bend Bulletin reports
the Brush Canyon devel-
opment would have had
as many as 223 turbines in
Sherman and Wasco counties.
It would have been in an area
of 76,000 acres, or 119 square
miles.
In December, the U.S.
Congress let lapse a tax break
enacted in 1992 to subsidize
wind power.
The project was proposed
by the North American arm
of a German utility, E.ON
(EE’-ahn) AG. The state
Department of Energy said
the company has withdrawn
its application.
Calls and messages to
the company’s Chicago and
German offices were not
immediately returned.
GRAnTS: Council could
decide Thursday
morning
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controlling blight.”
Urban renewal districts
are usually formed based on a
finding of “blight” in an urban
area. However, grants have
been issued in Sisters that
have a more extensive reach
than rehabilitating specifi-
cally “blighted” properties.
The small-project grants are
“designed to encourage pri-
vate investment by commer-
cial property owners and ten-
ants. The goal is to improve
the appearance of businesses
through façade rehabilitation
and restoration that empha-
sizes uniqueness and historic
value.”
Proposed projects include
work such as replacing or
repair of siding, replacing
decking with pavers, build-
ing a shade structure, some
landscaping and handicapped
access work, exterior painting
and signage. Both Connolly
and Asson expressed discom-
fort with funding signage,
though signage was included
in the grant criteria that was
sent out to the public.
“Yeah, they do need sig-
nage,” Asson said, “but to me,
that’s a business expense, not
urban renewal.”
At Thursday’s meeting,
Connolly noted that one
property owner has gone
“to the well” multiple times
for grants and questioned
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Womack said he had no prob-
lem with the owner of mul-
tiple properties seeking mul-
tiple grants.
A larger concern for
Connolly is what sort of proj-
ects urban-renewal funds
should be used for. She noted
that urban-renewal funds
could also be used for off-
street parking and land acqui-
sition for multifamily afford-
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do we value
off-street parking and
multifamily residential
housing less than this
kind of urban renewal...
— Nancy Connolly
“Do we value off-street
parking and multifamily resi-
dential housing less than this
kind of urban renewal and
is this the route we’ve taken
because it was a clear policy
or is this the only option that
was presented to us as an
urban renewal project?” she
said.
City Manager Andrew
Gorayeb noted that “this pro-
cess of doing grants was at
the behest of the URA (Urban
Renewal Agency).”
The Sisters City Council
acts as the City’s URA.
Asson acknowledged that
he voted in favor of similar
grants that were issued along
Cascade Avenue, though he
said he had concerns about
those as well. However, he
felt that the Cascade Avenue
rehabilitation projects had put
property owners and busi-
nesses through a lot.
He also acknowledged that
property owners had gone to
considerable effort to make
their applications at the City’s
behest and recognized that
some of those property own-
ers were concerned about
the last-minute tabling of the
grants.
Still, he wants more time
to look at the program and
square the conflict he sees
between the public interest
and businesses getting help.
He also said that he is not
determined on voting against
the grants.
“It’s not black and
white,” he said. “It’s a tough
decision.”
The Council is expected
to address the issue in its
Thursday workshop. The
agenda calls for an official
meeting of the Council acting
as the URA at 8 a.m., which
means the Council can vote
on approval.
“The next step is that I put
it on the agenda for this next
Thursday’s workshop, and I
intend to ask why these grant
applications were tabled,”
Mayor Frye said. “I then hope
to move forward with these
applications with the money
that we as a Council decided
to make available and award
those applicants who meet the
criteria for which this grant
was established.”
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