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Up to MLB
By MATT RAWLINGS
Of the Keizertimes
KEIZERTIMES /Andrew Jackson
City council to hold
hearing on rent burdens
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer City Council is hosting a public
hearing on rent burdens in Keizer at its meeting
Monday, Dec. 2.
Residents can show up at the meeting, at 7
p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center, and sign up to
talk about how rent burdens have affected them
and what solutions might be pursued. Written
testimony can also be mailed to: Tracy Davis,
City Recorder, P.O. Box 21000, Keizer, OR
97303, or dropped off at the civic, 930 Chemawa
Road N.E. (deadline is 5 p.m on Dec. 2).
HOW TO TELL IF YOU ARE RENT
BURDENED:
If you rent a home or apartment and spend
more than 50 percent of your gross household
income on rent, you and your family are
considered severely rent burdened.
However, you are not alone. Last year, the
City of Keizer received a letter from the state’s
Department of Housing and Community
Services designating Keizer as one of more than
two dozen cities that fall into the severely rent
burdened category. For the state, it means more
than a third of Keizer’s renter households meet
the rent burdened standard.
A more detailed look at Keizer’s rental picture
was revealed as the city considered its future
housing needs. That study found 54 percent of
renters in Keizer are paying more than a third of
their monthly income on rent, and 25 percent
of homeowners are in the same situation when
it comes to their mortgage. Nearly every family
making less than $35,000 annually in Keizer is
rent burdened and it includes elderly residents
facing rising costs in manufactured home
communities throughout the city as well as
younger residents just starting out.
When Keizertimes asked Facebook followers
about their experiences with rent burdens,
multiple commenters noted their rent has
climbed by leaps and bounds in recent years,
often with little or no renovation to the facilities
themselves. Some reported their rents had
increased by $500 or more in the past six years
and several had taken on additional work to
make ends meet. For others, high rent impacted
them when it came to making decisions about
Please see RENT, Page A10
Dramatic changes
proposed at KLL Park
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Youth baseball and softball in Keiz-
er might look a lot different come
2021.
Members of the Keizer Little
League Park Long Term Planning
Task Force met Thursday, Nov. 21,
for the fi nal time, and the potential
changes discussed included moving all
non-tournament Keizer Little League
and McNary Youth Baseball (MYB)
games to weeknights while reserving
weekends for tournaments organized
by for-profi t groups.
“It seems like we accidentally stum-
bled on what could be a very reason-
able win-win for everyone,” said Matt
Lawyer, the Keizer Parks Advisory
Board representative on the task force.
While nothing will be set in stone
until the city awards a new contract for
KLL Park management next fall, the
group generally agreed on a document
that will be used to draft a request for
a proposal. Until now, a single group
has managed the park, but the goal of
the task force is to cope with a way for
Little League and MYB to share the
park more equally.
Please see KLL PARK, Page A9
he Salem-Keizer Volca-
noes have been a staple
of the community for more
than two decades. But due to a
new proposal from Major
League Baseball (MLB),
the future of the orga-
nization could be in
jeopardy.
As a part of their
plan to overhaul the
current minor league
system, the MLB has
recently created a
proposal to cut ties
with approximately 25
percent of their lower
level minor league
teams (42 to be exact),
including the Salem-
Keizer Volcanoes.
If
the
proposal
comes to fruition, the
Volcanoes would lose
their affi liation with
the San Francisco
Giants and be forced to
play as an independent
organization — that is, if
they continue to maintain
operations.
The Volcanoes are one of
two teams in the Northwest
League that would be getting
the axe under this proposal —
with the other team being the
Tri-City Dust Devils, who are
affi liated with the San Diego
Padres.
The proposal would take
place after the 2020 season.
“The
Salem-Keizer
Volcanoes
are
staunchly
opposed to any proposal by
Major League Baseball that
eliminates Minor League
Baseball from the Salem-
Keizer area, or any other city
in America,” said Jerry Walker,
who has been the owner of
Please see OUT, Page A6
Growth benchmarks
could come to fruition
nity Development Director
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Nate Brown unveiled what the
Of the Keizertimes
Earlier this year, the Keizer benchmarks will be:
• Receive a
Planning Com-
Keizer-specif-
mission recom-
ic estimate of
mended
that “…there are three
expected pop-
the city absorb different paths
ulation growth
as much of its
and begin to
growth as pos- Keizer could
address specifi c
sible within its choose: divorce,
defi cits that are
existing bound-
stay the same,
revealed when
aries.
that happens.
However, the or increase
• Assess re-
commission also
gional growth
tasked city staff density while
needs that af-
with bringing sending some
fect both Sa-
back
bench-
lem and Keizer,
marks
that growth outside
which are the
could show the of Keizer”
only two cities
city is moving
toward expand-
— Nate Brown, in the state that
share a com-
ing its Urban
Keizer Community
mon UGB.
Growth Bound-
Development Director
• Analyze
ary (UFB).
the impacts of
At the plan-
ning Commission meeting growth on infrastructure such
Wednesday, Nov 13, Commu-
Please see GROWTH, Page A9
Deck our
walls with
coloring
contest
PAGE A8
LUCAS joins
Keizer Fire
District
PAGE A3
No Adults
PAGE A4
Titus is World
Cup bound
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