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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
City snapshot
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
• Hayden Homes has sub-
mitted a new application to
the Community Development
Department for a modification
to the original master plan for
Village at Cold Springs, with
an update to current code and
public works standards. The
eastern portion of the original
master plan is undeveloped
(17.26 acres). Hayden has
reworked their original design
proposal presented for this
property at the June Planning
Commission meeting. The
application will be considered
at the August 18 meeting at
City Hall at 5:30 p.m. At that
time, interested parties will be
able to make public comment.
Hayden is hopeful to get con-
struction started in 2016.
• In response to queries
from members of the public
regarding skydivers continu-
ing to land at North Sisters
Business Park despite no
conditional-use permit having
been issued for that activity on
that property, City Manager
Rick Allen wrote: “As a mat-
ter of policy for all members
of the public when it comes
to issues relating to codes, we
first advise them of the poten-
tial issue and then work with
them to gain compliance. This
issue will not be treated any
different.”
• City Council, the EDCO
due diligence committee, and
interim City Manager Rick
Allen have been refining the
original criteria for the City’s
forgivable loan program that
was adopted in July 2015. At
a Council workshop last week
the participants agreed on two
changes to the original crite-
ria. To be eligible for a loan,
a business must be creating
new jobs with new employ-
ees, not just retaining cur-
rent employees. The business
must meet the definition of a
traded-sector business, which
does a majority of its busi-
ness outside the local area.
Traded-sector businesses
bring new dollars into the
local economy from outside
Sisters Country. If a business
is relocating to Sisters, rather
than establishing a new enter-
prise, the existing business
must be more than five miles
out from the city limits. There
is currently $150,000 in the
City reserve fund allocated
for the program. The agreed-
upon changes will be made to
the original loan document,
which will be reviewed by
legal counsel and returned to
City Council for adoption.
• A month into the search
for a new senior planner,
the City of Sisters has only
received a few applications.
Interim City Manager Rick
Allen reminded Sisters City
Council that the Community
Development Department
is where the real action is at
City Hall, especially in boom
times with more construction
and new businesses opening.
The department handles a
myriad of tasks including all
permits, land use, litigation,
complaints, and planning. The
senior planner is a very impor-
tant position, one on which
Allen said the City cannot
scrimp. In order to compete
with larger municipalities and
the private sector for qualified,
experienced candidates, Allen
recommended to Council
that it might be necessary to
increase the salary currently
being offered for the position.
• A free shuttle bus to and
from the Deschutes County
Fair this week, Wednesday
through Sunday, will pick
up and drop off riders at the
Sisters Elementary School
parking lot on East Cascade.
The shuttle will leave Sisters
every day at 9:30 and 11:30
a.m. and 4:30 p.m. (except
on Sunday) and will leave
the fairgrounds to return to
Sisters at 3:30 p.m., 5:30
p.m. (which will be the last
bus on Sunday), 10:30 p.m.
on Wednesday and Thursday,
and 11:30 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday.
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