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Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Late compromise brings
housing bills closer to home
Legislature, which has been
struggling with inclusionary
zoning for many years,” Hass
said.
Due to resistance from
builders and the real estate
industry, lawmakers offered
a compromise that would
ensure developers would
receive incentives for offering
affordable housing, including
tax exemptions, fee waivers
or expedited services.
The measure allows
local government to require
developers to offer up to 20
percent of units at below
market rates in exchange for
at least one incentive, such as
tax exemptions, fee waivers
or expedited services. Devel-
opers also may opt to pay a
fee in lieu of the requirement.
The requirements would
apply only to multifamily
housing projects with 20 or
more units. The units would
be offered to those who earn
up to 80 percent of area
median income.
The compromise bill also
allows local governments
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Lawmakers
made progress Tuesday
on two signi¿cant housing
bills — churning out a last-
minute deal with builders
and real estate lobbyists on
inclusionary zoning and
passing a bill out of the
House of Representatives
that increases notice for
raising rent.
The Senate Committee
on Finance and Revenue
unanimously recommended
passing a bill to lift a ban on
cities and counties requiring
developers to include afford-
able housing units in their
plans, which also is known as
inclusionary zoning. The bill
is now headed for the Senate
Àoor.
“It appears there is an
agreement that everyone can
come to the center on,” said
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Bea-
verton.
Senate Bill 1533 is “a
monumental bill for this
BRIEFLY
Former Condon/Wheeler track coach
gets probation for sex abuse
MADRAS (AP) — The daughter-in-law of Nike
co-founder Bill Bowerman has pleaded guilty to sexual
abuse for having a relationship with a 17-year-old boy on
the track team she coached in central Oregon.
The Bend Bulletin reports that
45-year-old Melissa Bowerman
was sentenced Monday to ¿ve
years of probation.
During probation, her Internet
usage will be restricted and she’s
not allowed to contact males under
age 18, except family members. A
violation could land Bowerman in
prison for up to 1½ years.
She will also have to register as
a sex offender.
Bowerman
Bowerman did not make a
statement at the hearing. Her
attorney, Stephen Houze, says therapy has been “very
valuable” for Bowerman. He says she had a previously
undiagnosed mental health condition.
The former Madras High coach spent 26 days in jail
after her July 2014 arrest.
In 2013, Bowerman was dismissed from a volunteer
coaching job with the Condon/Wheeler track team after
she escorted a student to prom. No criminal charges were
brought against her.
failed to reach a deal on some
of the other issues in time.
“This bill which aims to
increase stability is a small
step in the right direction,”
Keny-Guyer said of Tues-
day’s tenant protections bill.
“It does not say what the rent
should be. It just says give
tenants more time.”
The bill prohibits land-
lords from raising rent for the
¿rst 12 months in a month-to-
month tenancy and requires
a 90-day notice, instead of
the existing 30-day notice,
before hiking rent after that
point.
The city of Portland
already requires 90 days’
notice.
The
measure
also
increases fees landlords can
charge tenants for violating
a smoking ban from $50 to
$250 after a warning.
Another tenant protection
to increase the notice period
for no-cause evictions after a
year of tenancy from 60 days
to 90 days was stripped from
the legislation.
to levy an up to 1 percent
construction tax to help pay
for developer incentives, pay
for housing programs and
provide down payment assis-
tance for home ownership.
Meanwhile, the House
passed a bill to increase
notice for raising rent in
month-to-month tenancies.
The measure passed 48-to-11
with bipartisan support and
now heads to the Senate Àoor.
The bill was part of an
omnibus housing package
negotiated by House Demo-
crats, landlords, builders and
affordable housing advocates
to address the state’s afford-
able housing shortage.
Much of the housing
package has fallen by
the wayside — including
addressing
problematic
no-cause evictions — in the
compression of a 35-day
legislative session.
Alissa
Keny-Guyer,
D-Portland,
chairwoman
of the House Committee
on Human Services and
Housing, said lawmakers
Two dead after powerful
Washington home explosion
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — The remains of
two people were found following a powerful explosion
Tuesday morning that leveled a home in western
Washington.
The couple who died in the explosion in Port Orchard,
about 15 miles west of Seattle, were 70-year-old William
B. McDonald and his wife, 65-year-old Maria C.
McDonald, said Kitsap County sheriff’s Deputy Scott
Wilson.
Their identities will be of¿cially con¿rmed by the
Kitsap County coroner, but Wilson said they have no
reason to believe anyone else was in the house when it
exploded around 4 a.m. Tuesday.
Authorities have all but ruled out homicide as a cause
of the explosion at the triple-wide manufactured home,
but they have not determined how it happened.
“At this point, we do not believe there is anything
suspicious that leads us down the path of criminal
activity,” Wilson said.
As far as they know, no one in the neighboring
homes was injured in the blast, although other buildings
were damaged, including a nearby elementary
school. The extent of the damage elsewhere involved
broken windows and doors, which he said was “truly
remarkable” considering the strength of the blast that
shook the neighborhood, Wilson said.
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FBI estimates Malheur occupation costs at more than $1.2M
By JOHN SEPULVADO
OPB
counties each spent more
than $60,000.
Lodging costs alone for all
of the assisting law enforce-
ment topped $52,000.
Local and state of¿cials
were in Washington D.C. this
week, lobbying the federal
government to reimburse
counties for the costs.
Rep. Peter DeFazio,
D-Ore., and other Oregon
representatives have intro-
duced federal legislation
and amendments since the
occupation ended that would
shift some of the costs to the
federal Interior and Justice
departments.
“The vigilantes who occu-
pied the Malheur Wildlife
Refuge for over a month
sapped resources from local
and state governments and
inÀicted tremendous damage
to a valued national resource,”
said DeFazio in a statement
Monday. “It will take time,
money and hard work to
clean up the destruction left
behind.”
Prosecutors seek to push back trial
PORTLAND (AP) — Government prosecutors have
¿led a motion to push back the trial dates for those
arrested following a 41-day standoff at an Oregon wildlife
refuge.
The prosecutors want a federal judge to deem the case
complex, which would delay the defendants’ right to a
speedy trial and likely send the case into 2017. They cite
the unique crime scene, the large number of defendants
and complicated pre-trial discovery issues.
Defense attorney Lisa Hay ¿led a document opposing
efforts to designate the case as complex.
Standoff leader Ammon Bundy and 15 others
are scheduled to each be arraigned Wednesday on
a conspiracy charge. Prosecutors say a superseding
indictment with additional charges could be ¿led early
next month, after investigators ¿nish processing the crime
scene near Burns.
The 41-day armed occupa-
tion at the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge cost Oregon
counties at least $1.2 million,
according to documents
obtained by OPB.
The FBI prepared the cost
estimate Feb. 13. It illustrates
how the counties incurred
those costs, from lodging and
meals to fuel expenses and
overtime.
The Harney County School
District paid some $16,000
for security and counseling
services – the school district
also spent $160,000 in wages
for teachers and staff to stay
home during the ¿rst week of
the occupation.
Meanwhile, more than
$700,000 was spent on
backup law enforcement
in the area from police and
sheriff’s departments across
the state. Nearly 200 law
enforcement of¿cials from
35 agencies worked 3,678
regular hours during the
occupation, according to the
documents.
Of the $700,000, the
biggest expenditure went
to 4,588 overtime hours for
law enforcement, costing
those departments more than
$400,000.
The ¿gures compiled by
the FBI do not include costs
incurred by the Oregon State
Police, which played a visible
role in assisting the FBI.
Clackamas
County
spent more than any other
department assisting Harney
County, racking up $136,000
in costs. Meanwhile, Lane,
Marion and Multnomah
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Corrections
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Enterprise
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Pendleton 50/27
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Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 59/40
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John Day
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WORLD CITIES
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds yielding to some
sun today. Partly cloudy tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Intervals of
clouds and sunshine today. Partly cloudy
tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Clouds and sun
today. Patchy clouds tonight. A blend of sun
and clouds tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Times of sun and
clouds today. Partly cloudy tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow.
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sun tomorrow.
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Peninsula of Michigan today. Much of the West will be sunny.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 93° in McAllen, Texas
Low -17° in Clayton Lake, Maine
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Fairbanks
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