Wednesday, June 7, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LETTERS
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uninformed, who like blind MOLES dig shal-
lowly just relishing roots of Earth’s succulent
plants.
Joann Power
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To the Editor:
Eight years ago a group of Sisters citizens
came together to revise and update the city’s
TSP (Transportation System Plan). Many
months were spent reviewing changes to our
transportation needs, and a final report was
presented to the City Council.
After several workshops and public hear-
ings, that plan was adopted in January of
2010. One of the recommendations in the
TSP is finally in place — the west-side round-
about. Kudos to ODOT and the City, espe-
cially Paul Bertagna, for seeing this through.
The west-side entrance to our city will be
safer, and more beautiful, as a result. Parents
will no longer have to fear for their teen-
age drivers as they dart across Highway 20
between speeding cars on the way to school.
Our seniors will no longer have to cross
between 50 mph+ traffic on their way to
Ray’s or Bi-Mart. ALL cars passing through
this intersection will be at 20 mph. There is no
doubt that we saved someone’s life by choos-
ing a roundabout for the entrance to our city.
These types of infrastructure projects take
years from the planning stage, to funding, to
implementation. We need to start now on get-
ting the second roundabout installed at Locust
and Highway 20. Our community will be
safer, and more beautiful, as a result.
Carey Tosello
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To the Editor:
Thank you for the article explaining the
problems the townhome owners are experi-
encing with their damage repair and lack of
cooperation from the HOA in the Village of
Cold Springs built by Hayden Homes.
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these delays. These folks pay monthly dues
to the HOA to cover the maintenance of the
exterior of their buildings. This means the
roofs. Of course, this is Hayden’s problem to
solve.
Hayden has total control of the HOA board.
There are no homeowners on this board, so
we have no input into how things at the HOA
are handled.
The single-family homes have a separate
problem. We do not pay the HOA for our
maintenance of the exterior of our homes.
However, because Hayden did not build
these homes to code, many of us sustained
major damage as well. I find it interest-
ing that Hayden Homes said in your article,
“Your home was constructed in accordance
with all building codes and requirements
that applied on the date of construction…
Neither the city of (Sisters) nor (Deschutes
County) required the installation of an ice
barrier when your home was constructed in
2013.”
This is totally wrong! There is a code in
place, and has been in place for several years,
that requires an ice shield be installed on the
roofs of these homes. We have it stamped on
our plans, in red ink, showing the locations
that were required to have the ice barrier. I
have an e-mail from Deschutes County that
shows they have this code in effect as of
January 1, 2013. Hayden is not being honest
with the homeowners.
Hayden was contacted by several home-
owners and were told that Hayden would do
nothing. They are not going to honor what
they should have done in the first place.
They don’t care. Now several homeown-
ers are having to replace their roof to install
the ice shield that should have been done by
Hayden and are considering potential legal
action.
Hayden should be held accountable to build
homes per code. I don’t understand where
they get their reputations as a high-quality
home-builder, based on our experiences.
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