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REDMOND
City council
updating
zoning rules
to comply
with state
BY TIM TRAINOR
Redmond Spokesman
Attendees gather to celebrate Independence Day at the Redmond Fourth of July Parade 2022 in downtown Redmond.
Fourth of July parade fills streets
STORY AND PHOTOS BY NICK ROSENBERGER
Redmond Spokesman
W
ith the roar of sirens, claps and cheers, the 2022
Redmond Fourth of July parade launched into
the streets of downtown Redmond.
Attendees covered in red, white and blue filled Sixth
Street as a line of participants — everyone from city coun-
cil members and mayoral candidates to community groups
See Parade / A4
The Marines ROTC colo
Dog days of summer
ous. Conformation, agility and Fast-
CAT are held outdoors while obedi-
As hundreds of Redmonders took
ence and rally are indoors.
off for the long holiday weekend, hun-
On the fun side, canine agility is al-
dreds of dogs from a half dozen states
ways a crowd pleaser. Dog agility is a
rolled into the Deschutes County Fair- sport in which a handler directs a dog
grounds for the 40th Annual AKC All
through an obstacle course in a race
Breed and Obedience Trials held by
for both time and accuracy. Dogs run
the Mt. Bachelor Kennel Club.
off leash with no food or toys as in-
The event
centives, and the
brought together
handler can’t touch
competitors from
either the dog or
more than 50
obstacles. The han-
breeds to compete
dler’s controls are
in agility trials and
limited to voice,
races, called Fast-
movement, and
CAT.
various body sig-
FastCAT is a
nals, requiring ex-
timed 100-yard
ceptional training
Photo by Bill Bartlett of the animal and
dash where dogs
run one at a time, The handlers got ribbons, but the contes- coordination of the
chasing a lure.
handler.
tants got ice cream.
Sure, you think
Courses are
your dog is fast.
complicated
But have you ever wondered how fast? enough that a dog could not complete
Can your dog outrun Usain Bolt, who them correctly without human direc-
has been called the fastest runner in
tion. In competition, the handler must
the world? They just might: Usain’s
assess the course, decide on strategy,
fastest time has been clocked at almost and direct the dog through the course
28 mph – yet dogs have been known
with precision and speed.
to reach speeds of 35-45 mph.
On the serious side of the week-
The three day event is divided into
end is what you might see on TV for
two broad categories — fun and seri-
worldwide events like the Westminster
BY BILL BARTLETT
For the Redmond Spokesman
Redmond city council-
ors reluctantly passed major
changes to Redmond’s devel-
opment codes on Tuesday,
June 28 — just two days before
a new state law was set to go
into effect.
Many of those changes
— ranging from lot sizes to
street setbacks and rules on
increased density — had not
been discussed or debated
by the city’s planning com-
mission. Still, the council was
urged to pass the code changes
recommended by city staff
rather than operate under
standard rules written in Sa-
lem.
“If you don’t come into
compliance by July 1 of this
year, you have to use the state
model code,” John Roberts,
deputy city manager, told the
council. “It’s in our interest to
adopt and use our own model
code because that gives us
more discretion and leverage.”
“Either we do this to our-
selves or the state does it to
us,” said Mayor George End-
icott.
The updates were required
after the passage of House Bill
2001 by the 2019 Oregon Leg-
islature, which has taken two
years to go into effect. The
goal of the bill was to make it
easier for property owners and
developers to build different
types of housing, especially in
zones that have long been lim-
ited to single-family houses
and strict land use rules.
The bill required that lo-
cal code be updated to re-
duce limits on the types of
housing that can be built on
a variety of parcels, with the
goal of increasing the num-
ber of duplexes, triplexes,
stand-alone townhouses and
more. According to the Leg-
islature, an increased variety
of new housing styles will
offer lower-cost options for
middle-income residents in-
terested in homeownership.
Senate Bill 458, a compan-
ion piece, allows for simpler
divisions of lots into smaller
sized parcels.
See Zoning / A4
The Spokesman uses
recycled newsprint
INDEX
Calendar ........A2
Puzzles ...........A2
Obituaries .....A5
Classifieds .....A6
Photo by Bill Bartlett
An Irish setter with a copper coat glistens on the grooming table.
Dog Show. The official term for dog
shows is conformation — as in, the act
of conforming or producing confor-
mity. While a dog show may look like
a beauty pageant. It’s not, say organiz-
ers. Dogs are not being compared to
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each other instead being measured by
how closely they conform to the stan-
dard of their particular breed.
Why? Because the closer a dog’s ap-
pearance is to the breed’s standard, the
See Dogs / A4
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