The Nugget
Vol. XLI No. 43
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and
Opinion from
Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Planners
propose
short-term
rental
regulations
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Food drive
to boost
Kiwanis
program
The god of
chainsaws...
Master craftsman J. Chester Armstrong
carved Sagen “the god of chainsaws”
into Sisters Rental’s chainsaw
retirement tree last
Saturday.
Starting Wednesday,
October 24, and running till
Thanksgiving, The Nugget
will be conducting a food
drive in support of the Sisters
Kiwanis Food Bank.
Community members
are invited to drop off dona-
tions of canned or packaged
goods or cash donations to
The Nugget during regular
office hours during the week
(closed Wednesday).
The Food Bank provides
a vital service to many fami-
lies in Sisters — families
who are struggling to get by
in a high-cost town; fami-
lies who need help getting
through a crisis; families
who don’t have a home.
The volunteers who oper-
ate the Food Bank report
that donations have declined
year-over-year by 30 percent
and some major cash donors
Tighter restrictions on
the location and operation of
short-term rentals in Sisters
made it through the Sisters
Planning Commission last
week.
Proposed Development
Code amendments related to
short-term rentals (STR) were
passed on to the City Council
for a public hearing tentatively
set for November 14, with
a 6-1 vote by the Planning
Commission at their meeting
last week.
The sole dissenter was
vice-chairman Jeff Seymour,
who stated he is opposed to
any spacing requirements
between properties, as the
250-foot buffer between STR
See REGULATIONS on page 30
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Rules ready for council
if voters OK marijuana
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
See FOOD DRIVE on page 19
Beware of aggressive deer
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
It only took the Planning
Commission a few minutes
to adopt Resolution 2018-
07, recommending the City
Council adopt Development
Code text amendments
(TA#18-02) establishing
new land-use regulations for
retail sale, producing, grow-
ing, processing, wholesaling,
research, and testing of mari-
juana and related amendments
to definition and use tables.
No members of the public
attended the hearing to speak
in favor or against the amend-
ments. They were previously
reviewed in workshops held
by the Planning Commission
on July 19 and August 16, and
City Council on August 8 and
22.
The citizens of the city
are currently voting on two
ballot measures explained
on the blue insert in the bal-
lot envelope regarding local
marijuana measures. Local
measure 9-122, if approved,
allows recreational and medi-
cal marijuana establishments
in Sisters. Approval makes
the City eligible to receive
distribution of state marijuana
tax revenues.
Local measure 9-123,
if approved, will impose a
local three percent tax on the
sale of marijuana items by
A stout mule
deer buck lives
in town. Don’t
feed him.
See RULES on page 30
It’s an increasingly com-
mon story in Sisters — and
across North America:
Urban deer populations that
have become accustomed
to human presence can
sometimes turn aggressive.
Last week, a local resi-
dent contacted The Nugget
to report that a small dog
was attacked by a big
doe near the Tamarack
Apartments at the north end
of town.
There are a great many
deer in town, and they
think nothing of hanging
out in the yards of homes
and businesses.
See DEER on page 31
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Inside...
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Fit for Sisters ..................... 6 Announcements ................12 Food & Home ............... 14-24 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Obituaries ......................... 7 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32