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Wednesday, May 25, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CITY: Council will hear remand from LUBA appeal Continued from page 3 week to review the proposed 2016/17 fiscal-year bud- get, which will take effect July 1, 2016. The commit- tee approved the budget in the amount of $11,488,000. They also approved taxes for the 2016/17 FY at the rate of $2.6417 per $1,000 of assessed value for the permanent rate tax levy. The strategic reserve fund will have $548,000 after allocat- ing $50,000 for an afford- able housing reserve as a line item in the general fund. City Council will vote in a regular session on accept- ing the Budget Committee’s approvals. • Clear Pine developer Peter Hall is planning to include two areas of cottages in his subdivision, if the plan- ning commission approves changes to the current code to make building the cottages a feasible proposition. Hall’s cottages will run 800-1,250 square feet with both single- and two-story floor plans. The planning commis- sion is currently looking at changing the current codes regulating cottages to make them workable, rather than throwing them out and start- ing from scratch. Hall’s cot- tages would be built around a central shared open space with parking on the outside of the cluster. One cluster would be in the single-family residential part of the subdi- vision and the other in multi- family residential. The planning commission is looking at two possible sets of rules – one for cot- tages as part of a master plan and one for cottages being built as infill on a single city lot. • Sisters City Council will be holding a public hearing and considering a remand by the Land Use Board of Appeals regarding McKenzie Meadow Village at their Thursday, May 26, meeting, Anyone wishing to testify must sign up at the meeting in Council Chambers at 7 p.m. • On May 19, City Council approved an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) for Right-of-Way Services associated with the Highway 20/Barclay Drive roundabout project. ODOT will be acquiring all of the right-of-way areas required for the project, both on the highway portions and the city street portion. Once the con- struction is completed, the portions on city streets will be transferred to the City. • Tw o n e w m a p s have been created by the Community Development Department to assist in future planning activities. One of the maps is a comprehensive look at all vacant land cur- rently within the city limits, with color coding to indicate the FEMA 100-year flood plain along Whychus Creek, constrained land, partially vacant, private right of way, undevelopable land (U.S. Forest Service, etc.), and vacant land. In red is all land already developed. This map is part of the comprehensive urbanization study that is underway. The other map shows the entire city with a half-mile buffer all the way around it. By use of color coding, all of the building zones in the city are shown, such as downtown commercial, multifamily res- idential, light industrial, and public facilities. The zones in the buffer include Exclusive Farm Use, Forest Use 1 and 2, Rural Residential (which are larger lots), and Surface mining. This is the map that will help determine the most logi- cal areas to include in any future urban growth bound- ary adjustments to allow for future growth of the city. 29 COCC settles suit BEND, Ore. (AP) — Central Oregon Community College announced it has settled a lawsuit filed by a student who was repeat- edly stabbed in the back on Halloween night in 2014. James Briles said in his lawsuit that the college failed to accommodate his request for a new roommate when his started exhibiting strange and scary behavior. The room- mate, according to the suit, stabbed Briles about a dozen times, causing him to spend six days in a hospital and undergo multiple surgeries. “COCC’s indemnity pro- vider will be making a pay- ment to Mr. Briles to assist with his medical expenses and ongoing treatment,” college spokesman Ron Paradis said in a statement to The Bulletin newspaper. “Both parties are (pleased) to save all involved the need to revisit this tragic event in litigation.” The amount of the settle- ment has yet to be revealed. Briles initially sought $500,000 in economic dam- ages and noneconomic damages of $2.5 million. Before the settlement, the college maintained that Briles’ injuries were caused by third party outside its control. Briles alleged that the college admitted Eric Norgaard despite knowing the young man posed a safety threat. Quilt Drawing for FURRY FRIEND S 501 ( c )( 3 ) FOUNDATION 100% of the proceeds go to Furry Friends Foundation. “Friends of Furry Friends” quilt was pieced by Valerie Fercho-Tillery. The bold colors and incredible detail make this a spectacular quilt. The quilt is currently on display at The Nugget offi ce, 442 E. Main Ave. Bring your pup by for a dog cookie and have a look! Tickets may be purchased at The Nugget offi ce or online at our website www.furryfriendsfoundation.org. Tickets are $1 each, six for $5 or go for it, 25 for $20. Info: 541-549-9941 “Friends of Furry Friends” - by Valerie Fercho-Tillery (46"w x 59"h)
