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City reaches end of COVID relief allocation
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.com
(541) 942-0555
WEATHER
Federal financial aid for address-
ing the pandemic has about dried
up for the City of Cottage Grove.
The passage of the Coronavirus
Aid, Relief, and Economic Secu-
rity (CARES) Act last year estab-
lished a $150 billion Coronavirus
Relief Fund to provide assistance
for state, local, and tribal govern-
ments.
Cottage Grove was allocated
$328,944 in relief funds and is cur-
rently finalizing its last request for
reimbursement.
The CARES Act requires that
the payments from the Corona-
virus Relief Fund only be used to
cover expenses that: are neces-
sary expenditures incurred due to
the public health emergency with
respect to COVID–19; were not
accounted for in the budget most
recently approved as of March 27,
2020 (the date of enactment of
the CARES Act) for the state or
government; and were incurred
during the period that begins on
March 1, 2020, and ends on Dec.
31, 2021.
A Dec. 30, 2020 deadline for
spending had previously been es-
tablished, but was recently extend-
ed to the end of 2021.
Cottage Grove can seek reim-
bursement for any qualifying ex-
penditures since March 1, 2020
and is making a final request for
the last of its allocated resources.
In deciding on strategies for
spending, City Manager Richard
Meyers said the city focused on
finding investments which could
continue their benefits beyond a
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Construction on the Gateway Boulevard plot is preparing the site for a 40-unit, four-building cluster of multifamily units.
‘Gateway’ to more housing proposed
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.com
R
ecent construction work
has kicked up some dust on
Gateway Boulevard, leaving
many in the community to specu-
late on the development.
The nearly two-acre lot, nes-
tled between the boulevard and
Row River Trail, has been largely
upturned as a result of the excava-
tion, leaving little to resemble the
previously undeveloped, lightly
forested plot.
The site is undergoing prepa-
ration for a proposed 40-unit
complex, a four-building cluster
of multifamily units consisting of
two eight-unit, two-story build-
ings and two 12-unit three-story
buildings.
“Conveniently located within
walking distance of three shopping
centers, the post office, bus stops
and city parks, this will be an ideal
location for city living,” states the
proposal from JDL Construction,
which is managing the project.
The project description includes
landscaping throughout the site,
open space areas with picnic tables
and barbeque facilities at the rear
of the project to provide occupants
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By Damien Sherwood
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541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax
P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
The Cottage Grove City Coun-
cil is set to vote on a change to the
city’s system development charges
(SDC) methodology in its upcom-
ing Jan. 25 regular session.
The amendment to city code
will incorporate meter size as a
factor in calculating fees.
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for calculating SDCs for water and
sewer, which authorized calcula-
tions to be based both upon fixture
count and meter size.
However, at the time, the coun-
cil incorporated only the fixture
count methodology into munici-
pal code as its rule for calculating
water and sewer SDCs for all de-
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A system development charge is
a one-time fee imposed on new or
some types of re-development at
the time of development.
The fee is intended to recover a
fair share of the cost of additional
capacity street, sewer, water, storm
drainage and park facilities and for
providing a fair share of the city’s
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an SDC as the sum of two com-
ponents: a reimbursement fee, de-
signed to recover costs associated
with capital improvements already
constructed or under construc-
tion; and an improvement fee, de-
signed to recover costs associated
with capital improvements to be
constructed in the future.
In order to maintain equity
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