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REGION Thursday, January 2, 2020 East Oregonian A3 Study says city needs more affordable housing Hermiston rings in 2020 New study follows up on similar ones done in 2011, 2016 By ANTONIO SIERRA East Oregonian Staff photo by Ben Lonergan People watch as the ceremonial watermelon shoots fireworks. The watermelon, which was initially supposed to ignite high above the crowd, failed to do so, requiring city workers to lower it to the ground and light it by hand. PENDLETON — To meet current needs and accommodate anticipated growth, the city of Pend- leton will need 870 new homes within the next 20 years. That’s the conclu- sion reached by the latest city-commissioned study, which also recommends increasing its focus on low-income housing and rent burdens. The study follows up on similar studies done in 2011 and 2016, which led the Pendleton City Coun- cil to adopt a goal of issu- ing 50 housing permits per year. Pendleton has mostly met that goal since adopt- ing it in 2017, thanks to new homes at Pend- leton Heights and Sun- ridge Estates, with new apartment complexes at Pendleton Heights and Westgate expected in the coming years. The new study, con- ducted by the FCS Group of Lake Oswego, is caus- ing the city’s housing committee to consider new wrinkles. The most recent draft of the goals includes strategies to develop affordable housing and address severe rent bur- dens. Some of the sug- gested policies include subsidizing affordable housing projects, creat- ing a water bill credit for households with severe rental burdens, and iden- tifying public properties for affordable housing. The 870 housing units the study recommends includes 438 multi-fam- ily dwellings and 320 sin- gle-family homes. It also suggests that more than half of the homes built are suited for low, very low, or extremely low incomes. Turner said the city is still interested in attract- ing housing develop- ments of all types, but he agreed that the draft goals has a bigger empha- sis on affordable housing. He added the chal- lenge would be trying to find the subsidies to make affordable hous- ing projects happen because they’ve largely disappeared. There’s also another obstacle for a potential Pendleton housing boom: the lack of buildable land. While the study calls for hundreds of new multi-family units, more than half of the residen- tial buildable land in the city is low-density. One of FCS’ suggested policies is to have the city swap properties with land owners who own land available for residential development. Turner said the city could eventually send the issue to the Pendleton Planning Commission, who could incorporate some of the recommended policies into the city’s comprehensive plan. BRIEFLY Second largest Oregon dairy site is clean Staff photo by Ben Lonergan Kris Neville, left, and his wife Danielle Davies-Neville enjoy a quiet moment with their newborn, Colton Neville, amid visits from hospital staff and a portrait session at Good Shepherd Family Birth Center in Hermiston. Colton David Neville was the first baby of the decade in Umatilla County. He was born at 12:17 a.m. Wednesday, weighing 8 pounds 2 ounces. Good Shepherd welcomes first baby of the decade By JESSICA POLLARD East Oregonian HERMISTON— Kris Neville was out hunting ducks near Irrigon when his wife, Danielle Davies-Nev- ille went into labor on Tues- day morning. “My wife did give me permission to go out hunt- ing,” Kris joked. And while he only caught two ducks that day, he got a bigger prize when the cou- ple welcomed Colton David Neville into the world just 17 minutes after the dawn of the new decade — at 12:17 a.m. Wednesday — making him the first baby of the new year at Good Shep- herd Family Birth Center and in Umatilla County. Colton, a cool-natured boy weighing in at 8 pounds and 2 ounces and 22 inches long, gripped his mother’s finger fondly on Wednesday afternoon. “He’s very calm,” Dan- ielle said. “That’s a mom trait,” Kris added. The husband and wife moved to Hermiston from California just a year ago, following what Danielle described as an “early mid- life crisis.” “I love it here,” Dan- ielle said. “But Kris told me when we moved here that the place gets a light ‘dust- ing’ of snow in the winter.” She said that when Feb- ruary came around and his- toric snow coated Uma- tilla County, she asked Kris to clarify the definition of “dusting.” Colton, originally antici- pated to be joining the fam- ily on Jan. 3, has an older sister. Rylee, at almost 2 years old, is also a January baby. “We’re keeping them close,” Danielle said. Before the couple knew whether they were having a boy or a girl, they both separately compiled lists of names for each gender. “Kris, being the kind of man he is, chose one name for each gender. I had a bunch on each list,” she said. 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BOARDMAN — Nine months after the sale of the final cow from now-de- funct Lost Valley Farm outside Boardman and seven inspections later, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has pro- nounced cleanup of the facility successful. Monday, the ODA issued a Notice of Satisfac- tion to the federal trustee of the property, Randy Sugar- man, who was placed in charge of the cleanup and the sale of the facility. In February, Pas- co-based Easterday Farms purchased the dairy for $66.7 million after for- mer owner Greg te Velde declared bankruptcy in 2018 and lost control of three dairies — includ- ing Lost Valley, the sec- ond largest dairy in Ore- gon. The property faced hundreds of violations for the storage and handling of animal waste, resulting in the accumulation of nearly $198,000 in civil penalties. At the beginning of 2019, there were approx- imately 47 million gal- lons of liquid manure at the dairy, which holds the capacity for 30,000 cows. 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