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Wednesday, August 19, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
PLAN: Citizens will
play a role in setting
community goals
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PHOTO BY JESS DRAPER
Creekside Park Bridge will get ADA-accessible ramps and new viewing
bump-outs.
BRIDGE: Grant funding
will offset some of
project cost
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A, which included a more
involved design requiring
higher construction costs.
Option B will cost
approximately $77,000,
with a grant of $48,000 from
Oregon Parks and Recreation
Department.
In-creek riparian resto-
ration work, including the
removal of a concrete struc-
ture in the middle of the
creek and bank restoration,
will be completed in 2021
by the Upper Deschutes
Watershed Council, utiliz-
ing $250,000 in grants. The
concrete removal is neces-
sary because it is impeding
the fish coming upstream to
spawn. This year a Chinook
salmon was found in the
creek within one mile of
Creekside Park. Two other
species are already traveling
through Creekside Park.
The new sewer line on the
upside of the Locust Street
bridge will be moved and
replaced in 2021 utilizing
a FEMA grant. All three of
these improvements started
out as part of one improve-
ment project but each has
been broken out as an indi-
vidual project, utilizing a
variety of funds.
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content that necessitates
help for the outside con-
sultant 4 cities have the
opportunity to shape the
plan to fit their character and
needs. Things like wildfire
hazard mitigation can be
included.
<Hillsboro, for instance,
included a sustainability sec-
tion,= Mardell offered.
The <visioning= process
that the community under-
took over the past several
years established priorities.
<We can build on that
to create the comp plan,=
Misley said.
The City has latitude to
set its own goals.
<The state doesn9t usually
get involved in goals unless
they go against a state land-
use goal, there9s a conflict
there,= Mardell explained.
The biggest question in
this kind of long-range plan-
ning usually comes down
to land inventory and how
much is available to accom-
modate growth and devel-
opment. The plan requires
a buildable lands inventory
to determine how much
residential, commercial and
industrial land is actually
available.
<That9s an objective
review of the conditions on
the ground,= Misley said.
Mardell noted that,
<A city is meant to have
a 20-year supply of land
within the UGB. It9s a pretty
complicated process to iden-
tify that equation. There9s no
fixed number, necessarily.=
That equation throws up
questions that have to be
articulated in goals.
<What sort of housing
mix do we want?= Misley
offered as an example.
And Sisters will have to
grapple with the fact that we
don9t have a lot of vacant
land left inside the UGB.
Setting goals and deter-
mining the shape of future
growth isn9t just the prov-
ince of City staff, elected
officials and consultants.
Citizens will be asked to
participate.
Several committees will
be formed around various
topics within the scope of
the plan; the planning com-
mission will hold several
public hearings on vari-
ous aspects of the plan; and
there will be outreach events
where the general public can
weigh in on what they think
of the goals as the plan is
developed.
One of the first tasks of
City staff is to develop a for-
mal plan for public engage-
ment. Those interested in
participating in the process
can let the city know now.
Contact staff through the
City9s web site at https://
www.ci.sisters.or.us.
<If you9re interested
about growth in Sisters, this
is the time to be involved in
the process,= Mardell said.
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