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HAYDEN: Neighbors
expressed concerns
about impacts
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small commercial/residential
mixed-use area. Ten percent
of the residential units (20)
must be affordable-housing
units (AHU) according to the
property’s original annexation
agreement.
A total of 3.4 acres of the
30 acres is proposed to pro-
vide recreation opportunities,
breaking of housing blocks,
and improve tree preserva-
tion. Hayes McCoy, civil
engineer who conducted an
inventory of trees on the 30
acres, said there are 240-250
trees, and over half of them
would be removed.
“Hayden Homes is work-
ing with the land owners dur-
ing the land-use process,”
Pust said.
M M V p a r t n e r K u r t
Kallberg told The Nugget,
“I have total confidence that
Hayden will work it out.
The community may not get
everything they want, but I’m
confident there will be good
housing at affordable prices.”
The attendees at the meet-
ing were mainly residents of
the Village at Cold Springs,
Hayden’s first development,
located off McKinney Butte
Road and next to the new
project. They seemed fairly
united in their major concerns
expressed regarding Hayden’s
latest proposal.
President of the homeown-
ers association, Doug Wills,
identified concerns about
traffic and safety if Hill and
Williamson Streets are con-
tinued into the new devel-
opment. The 25-foot-wide
streets are too narrow for two
vehicles to pass or for emer-
gency vehicles to get through
when cars are parked on both
sides of the street.
Children play in the streets
and residents ride their bikes
and walk through the neigh-
borhood. Due to an agree-
ment with the City at the
time Village at Cold Springs
was approved, the streets are
owned by the HOA. They are
responsible for maintenance,
repairs, and snow removal.
Residents are concerned that
connecting the streets to the
new ones will increase traffic,
resulting in more wear and
tear for which the HOA will
be responsible.
Wills reported that cur-
rently there are 2,900 lineal
feet of cracks in the pavement
that need to be repaired due to
faulty initial installation. One
resident said Hayden Homes
got a break from the City
before and now the residents
deserve some help.
“I am tired of all these high
school kids speeding through
the neighborhood on our pri-
vate streets,” Village at Cold
Springs resident Deborah
Olson told the assembly.
Now that Williamson con-
nects directly to Railway
Avenue on the north end —
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because of the new Hayden
Homes being constructed in A proposal for a new Hayden Homes development at McKenzie Meadows was presented to the public last week.
that area — residents fear that
Williamson will become a than Village at Cold Springs, appealed to the City Council.
can make it work.”
cut-through to the high school raised concerns about a “des-
The history of this piece
Another MMV partner,
if it continues into the MMV ecration of the nature of of property has been convo- Bill Willitts, told The Nugget,
property.
Sisters.”
luted and complex over the “The property owners, the
A Hayden representative
Bill Turner referred to the past 15 years. The City placed developers, the neighbors, and
said the connections are not proposed subdivision as “a restrictions on MMV at the the City have to work collec-
preferred by the builder and cancer. We’ve dealt with them time of annexation, requiring tively for a positive outcome.
to let the City know of their (Hayden) . They aren’t pleas- a senior-living facility to be
“We have to sit around the
concerns. Several residents ant, honest, or consistent. built before any other build- table and find solid middle
pointed out that supposedly We’re looking at the demise ing could take place. The ground.”
“in the past the City planners of Sisters.”
MMV partners ended up with
Willitts indicated that
said the streets wouldn’t go
A Tollgate resident raised huge legal bills as a result of Hayden has put up good-faith
through… There were provi- the concern about smaller numerous appeals by Mark money with an option to pur-
sions in the previous plan for houses meaning more mass Adolf to the Land Use Board chase, with a liberal timeline.
locked gates to be utilized and more people. She asked, of Appeals, which stalled con-
“We appreciate the com-
by emergency personnel for “How does this affect those struction of the senior facility munity attending the meeting
fire, ambulance, and police of us who already live here? and thus any other structures.
and providing feedback. The
vehicles.”
I would like to see improve-
The Village at Cold concerns that were expressed
There is also concern ment in the quality of our Springs neighbors challenged by the neighbors will be con-
about the increased traffic on community before we bring them on some of the same sidered in our application,
McKinney Butte and in town more people in.”
issues being raised now. The although many of the con-
with the addition of 199 more
The Planning Commission decision was made to sell the cerns that we heard (density,
housing units.
will be the final decision- property rather than develop connection to private streets)
Ann Marland, who lives making body regarding issues it because as Kallberg put it, are issues that need to be
in The Pines further north on surrounding the develop- “We’re tired of fighting. We resolved with the City,” said
McKinney Butte Road, asked ment. Their decision can be tried for 15 years. Maybe they Hayden’s Pust.
how the City would mitigate
all the additional traffic. She
also thinks the road should be
widened to provide for bike
and pedestrian safety. She
and several other residents
encouraged Hayden to be a
good community friend and
consider making a contribu-
tion to a senior center or full-
service community center.
Other concerns voiced
had to do with the loss of
numerous mature trees so
that “Sisters won’t look like
Sisters anymore.” The small
size of the building lots and
the density, which is more
