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.
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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.
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