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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
DEVELOPMENT:
Project may start in
late summer 2021
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Actual development is a
ways off. Eckert said the
fastest possible timeline to
put shovels in the ground is
late summer 2021.
The Forest Service Sisters
Ranger District Headquarters
will remain where it is now
located, but new facilities
will be built. According to
Sisters District Ranger Ian
Reid, that project, too, will
begin at the earliest in 2021.
Maintaining its long-
time Sisters location marks
a change of plans for the
Forest Service, who origi-
nally intended to sell the
entire 80-acre administrative
site and move its headquar-
ters to a parcel of land on
the west end of Sisters just
beyond the GrandStay Hotel.
<We9re not going to
move,= Reid told The Nugget.
<We9re retaining 12 acres
of what we call Parcel 2.=
He said the costs and
logistics of a move proved
not to be viable.
<The site development
was going to be pretty expen-
sive, with highway improve-
ments that were going to be
required and utilities out
there,= he said.
Instead, the USFS is in
the process of contracting
out a site plan that will fea-
ture a warehouse and vehicle
garage and a new headquar-
ters building on the cur-
rent site. Staff will continue
working at the existing office
until the new one is built.
The warehouse will likely be
built first, Reid said.
Eckert described the cot-
tage development as <a
much more challenging
kind of construction= than a
conventional housing devel-
opment, because it is not just
a matter of clearing the site
and laying in a grid.
Though 250 to 300 hous-
ing units is a lot in a Sisters
development, Eckert said, <it
will feel very loose because
of the open space and the
trees. It9s hard to describe.
Our goal is, before the plan-
ning commission (hearing)
we can have some sort of
representation so people can
wrap their brains around
that.=
The architect and designer
said that the project will
also feature some com-
mercial development. The
exact nature of that has not
been determined, but Eckert
envisions a kind of <com-
mercial village= that would
interact with the residential
development.
<I don9t think the town
needs a lot more commer-
cial,= he said.
A forestful...
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Caterpillars are camped out across Sisters Country.
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Much of the Forest Service administrative site will become housing in the
next couple of years.
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