Wednesday, September 9, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
DEVELOPMENT:
Commission will hear
zone change request
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couple of years may be taken
Thursday, September 10.
The Sisters Planning
Commission will hear a
request from the owners of
a large portion of the Forest
Service property along Pine
Street to change the zoning
on the property to allow for
residential development.
The applicant is requesting
approval of a Comprehensive
Plan Map Amendment to re-
designate the property and
a zone change from Public
Facilities, Urban Area
Reserve, and Open Space to
Multi-Family Residential,
North Sisters Business Park,
Open Space and Downtown
Commercial.
The special meeting
will be held September 10,
at 5:30 p.m., in the Sisters
City Council Chambers
and can be accessed by
the public through Zoom
(links available at https://
www.ci.sisters.or.us/bc-pc/
page/planning-commission-
special-meeting). Written
public comment can be
submitted for the record to
nmardell@ci.sisters.or.us or
dropped in the utility mail
drop by 4 p.m. on Thursday,
September 10.
Sisters planning staff
has recommended approval
of the request, with condi-
tions. The staff report may be
accessed at the link above.
Kevin Eckert of Build
LLC is designing the devel-
opment of 31 acres of
land along Pine Street and
Highway 20 for Paul Hodge
and Paul and Carla Schneider
of Sisters, who purchased
the property that was for-
merly part of the U.S. Forest
Service administrative site.
Eckert told The Nugget
last June that, <they just saw
an opportunity for positive
growth.=
Hodge, who is CEO of
Laird Superfood, has long
been an advocate for work-
force housing that will allow
people who work for a pay-
check in Sisters to live in
Sisters.
Eckert said that the Sisters
Woodlands development,
bounded by Pine Street, West
Barclay Drive, and Highway
20 (see map) will feature
<cottage development= of
approximately 1,500 square
feet each utilizing shared
open space, townhomes and
home-over-garage units, and
apartment or condominium-
style units along Highway 20
with a significant setback
from the road.
Eckert said that the cot-
tage development plan will
allow the preservation of
somewhere around 200 trees.
Eckert told The Nugget
that he9s been traveling in the
West this summer and seen
the pressures placed on small
towns by people seeking a
change in lifestyle.
<We need it more than
ever,= Eckert said. <We need
to rally as a town to keep
Sisters affordable.=
The fastest possible time-
line to put shovels in the
ground on the development
is late summer 2021.
The Forest Service Sisters
Ranger District Headquarters
will remain where it is now
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GRAPHIC PROVIDED
Thirty-one acres of property now occupied by the Sisters Ranger District
administrative site could be converted into residential use if the planning
commission approves a zone change.
located, but new facilities
will be built. According
to Sisters District Ranger
Ian Reid, that project, too,
will begin at the earliest in
2021.
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