Wednesday, September 1, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters woman seeking kidney
donor, hosting fundraiser sale
Jamie Audrain is a local single
mom fighting for her life. She is seek-
ing a kidney donor and she hopes it
comes from home.
<I think it would be cool to see
my donor in passing, like, at the post
office or something. How great you
would both feel right then,= she said.
If you would like to meet Jamie
and learn more about how donating
would affect your life, stop by her
fundraiser garage sale Labor Day
weekend at 125 S. Timber Pine Place
in the Timber Creek neighborhood.
Jamie9s favorite restaurant in town,
Spoons, is donating frozen yogurt on
Sunday, September 5, to help cel-
ebrate Jamie9s 41st birthday.
<Our community is very special,=
she said. <Free frozen yogurt at a
garage sale? That9s super cool! With
all the crap that9s going on the world,
its easy to forget the love that9s still
out there. The support I9m experienc-
ing gives me hope and makes me want
to live. That9s powerful community.=
Audrain was diagnosed in 2019
with an aggressive form of kidney
disease.
The support I’m experiencing
Correspondent
Sisters Habitat for Humanity
executive director Sharlene Weed
requested a letter of support from
the Sisters City Council for Habitat9s
application to Deschutes County for
$1.5 million in American Rescue
Plans Act (ARPA) funds to purchase
10-15 residential lots in the Sisters
Woodlands development which will
be located on the middle parcel of
the former U.S. Forest property at
the west end of town.
Weed has been in successful
negotiation with Woodlands archi-
tect Kevin Eckert of BUILD LLC,
representing his clients who own the
land 4 PX2 Investments, Paul and
Carla Schneider and Paul Hodge.
Eckert said, <This is a local group
with local connections working to
achieve a forward-thinking develop-
ment project. We see Sisters Habitat
and our project mission to be very
well aligned.=
Their goals include: <Building
a mixed community that will serve
all of Sisters, while we intentionally
provide reasonable density given the
dearth of available property; pre-
serve as many trees as possible (over
500); decrease traffic by providing a
safe and accessible network of paths
for multi-model travel; enhance pub-
lic experience with a large public
open space amenity, as well as over
10 pocket parks; and create hous-
ing that meets many income levels,=
Eckert said.
The Sisters Woodlands master
plan and subdivision application
includes zoning for light industrial,
downtown commercial, multi-family
residential, and open space, all on
31.5 net acres. Eckert hopes to have
the project in front of the Planning
Commission for deliberation in
September. If approved, they could
begin on-site preparation this winter,
infrastructure in spring 2022, and the
first phase of building and housing
construction starting summer 2022.
Within the project, the develop-
ers have created an affordable mix of
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Habitat seeks $1.5 million in
American Rescue Plan Act funds
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housing 3 cottages, townhomes with
attached dwelling units (ADUs),
apartment/condominium flats, and
congregate housing. They intention-
ally removed higher-priced single-
family residential lots from the proj-
ect because they didn9t align with the
project team9s goals of creating as
affordable a mix of housing as pos-
sible, to support community hous-
ing for individuals, families, and the
local workforce.
According to Eckert, <The cot-
tage lots would currently market for
over $150,000 per lot, given costs,
demand, and inventory challenges.=
Despite the fact the pricing is
higher than in previous Habitat
developments, BUILD LLC and
PX2 are <highly committed to find-
ing a solution with Sisters Habitat to
provide affordable housing in Sisters
Woodlands.=
<Conceptually, the development
team foresees offering at least 10-15
cottage lots in Woodlands, and lever-
aging Habitat9s long-proven success,
to harmoniously construct affordable
cottages within the development,=
Eckert said.
If Habitat receives the $1.5 mil-
lion requested of Deschutes County,
that will solve an imminent problem
for the nonprofit: a lack of any other
available land on which to build
affordable housing in Sisters.
Habitat would be required to fol-
low the Sisters Woodlands architec-
tural guidelines for the two-to-three
cottages built in each of five phases.
That would allow for integrating the
Habitat homes throughout the devel-
opment. Eckert also indicated that
perhaps the developers would them-
selves subsidize some of the hous-
ing. He said that his firm would con-
sider assisting Habitat by offering to
do some of the required permitting
work pro bono.
City Council listened to Weed9s
request for a letter of support, accom-
panied by her own letter and a copy
of the letter of commitment from
Eckert, offering to sell the 10-15 lots
at a discount. Council will discuss
the request at a future workshop.
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