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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Council gives green light to new Hayden Home development
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
At a special meeting of the
Sisters City Council last week,
councilors gave the green light
to Hayden Homes to develop
their 195-plus-unit hous-
ing development, McKenzie
Meadow Village, located off
McKinney Butte Road next to
the high school.
Four of the five council-
ors voted unanimously to
approve Ordinance No. 496,
with a number of conditions.
Mayor Chuck Ryan was not
in attendance. He had previ-
ously recused himself from
any hearings or discussions
regarding MMV because of
his previous negotiations held
with Hayden personnel during
the period when Sisters was
without a city manager.
The ordinance approved
the MMV Master Plan,
Subdivision, Zone Change,
Plan Amendment, and
Development Agreement. The
plans call for 116 single-fam-
ily detached homes, 18 single-
family attached/townhomes,
and 61-65 multi-family units
plus 3.32 acres of open space,
and recreational amenities and
supporting infrastructure.
The
Development
Agreement requires a mini-
mum of one affordable hous-
ing unit for every 10 mar-
ket-rate residential units, a
requirement that was part of
the original annexation agree-
ment into the city.
The application was
reviewed and approved by
City planning staff using the
adopted applicable City and
State procedures. Review fees,
paid by the applicant, were
in excess of $34,000. The
Council decision was made
based on the City9s adopted
standards and criteria and con-
sistency with the Statewide
Planning Goals and City9s
Comprehensive Plan.
The development of the
MMV property is probably
one of the most contested
since its annexation into the
city urban growth boundary.
After three Land Use Board
of Appeals (LUBA) filings
by Mark Adolf and Pinnacle
Alliance, the original owners
of the property 4 the Reed,
Willitts, and Kallberg families
4 decided to put the prop-
erty on the market and chose
Hayden Homes to be the new
owners.
The original MMV plans
called for the development to
contain a senior-living facility,
a community <lodge= or cen-
ter, individual senior cottages,
low-income senior apart-
ments by Bend developer Rob
Roy, and some single-family
homes, all centered around a
community park and garden.
Adolf was originally con-
tracted to build the senior-liv-
ing facility, but was unable to
secure the necessary funding.
After three years, when
the contract was not extended
again, another party was
brought in to build and run the
senior facility, but repeated
LUBA appeals stalled the pro-
cess. After years of delays, the
decision was made to sell the
property to Hayden Homes. At
that point, the original Master
Plan was no longer in force.
MMV is directly adjacent
to another Hayden develop-
ment, Village at Cold Springs.
The homeowners in VCS
appealed to both Hayden and
the City to allow the instal-
lation of emergency gates on
Hill and Williamson Avenues,
which would connect VCS
and MMV.
Their request was based
on two fundamental facts:
The narrow streets in VCS
are privately maintained
(repaired, plowed, etc.) by
the homeowners association,
which contends increased traf-
fic from the connection will
increase costs for the residents
in VCS. The streets in MMV
will be installed at the current
code width of 36 feet. The
VCS residents have signifi-
cant safety concerns regarding
traffic cutting through their
development on narrow streets
at higher than posted speeds
where children play and ride
their bikes, and residents park
their cars.
Hayden Homes and the
Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural
Fire Protection District agreed
to the installation of gates that
could be opened in case of
emergencies and to facilitate
work by the City Public Works
Department.
Despite reams of emails,
letters, data, photographs and
repeated testimony by home-
owners in VCS and their
legal counsel at both Planning
Commission and City Council
public hearings, the final vote
at last Wednesday9s special
Council meeting 4 for now
4 puts an end to the discus-
sion by approving Ordinance
496 which includes con-
necting Hill and Williamson
avenues.
The decision to disallow
the gates was made based on
current City code require-
ments for traffic connectivity
and the original easements
which were required and
designed to accommodate
future street connections.
There is another avenue
for the VCS homeowners
association. They can file an
appeal with LUBA to have
the City decision re-evaluated.
HOA President Doug Wills
told The Nugget that following
last week9s meeting, he was
approached by representatives
of Hayden Homes to see if a
meeting could be set to discuss
what could be done together
to help with the traffic flow.
<They really don9t want us
to go to LUBA. We will see
what they have to say& we
will see where it goes,= Wills
said.
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