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5-story senior living community proposed
studios and other amenities,
according to city documents. It
would be called Bri at Old Mill
District, according to city doc-
uments.
But more than a dozen resi-
dents have taken issue with the
developer’s request for a height
variance, which would let the
building be five stories, or 60
feet, tall.
The zoning on this land cur-
rently only allows for a build-
ing to be 45 feet tall.
The first level would be
parking while the rest would
be residential, according to
By BrENNA VISSEr
The Bulletin
A 170-unit apartment com-
plex for adults 55 years and
older is being proposed at the
corner of Shevlin Hixon Drive
and SW Columbia Street,
across the street from River-
bend Park in Bend, but has
generated concern because of a
possible height variance.
The developer, Brighton De-
velopment Inc., is seeking to
build an “active adult commu-
nity,” with a mix of one- and
two-bedroom apartments, a
pool, outdoor plaza, fitness
plan documents.
The land, which sits adja-
cent to Deschutes Brewery, is
roughly 3 acres and is often
used as overflow parking for
people using Riverbend Park.
Opponents object to the
height out of concerns that a
building this tall would be “out
of character” for the area and
would compound issues at an
already congested area. Sev-
eral questioned the need for
another story, when no com-
mercial uses are being offered
at the site.
An aerial
view shows
the vacant
lot for sale at
the corner of
Shevlin Hixon
drive and
SW Columbia
Street in Bend
on Friday.
Ryan Brennecke/
The Bulletin
See riverbend / A7
Warm Springs
NEW JAIL, POLICE STATION GET OK
Closed in August, jail has
leaky roof, unreliable
power, discolored water,
numerous other issues
By GArrEtt ANdrEWS
The Bulletin
WARM SPRINGS — While put-
ting together a recent funding request,
Warm Springs Police Lt. Crystal
Greene rounded up every unfulfilled
maintenance order her department
had filed with the federal government
over the past 20 years.
Each form represents a different de-
ficiency with the Warm Springs jail,
built in 1987-1989, from a leaking
roof to an unreliable power generator
to a concrete wall that moves when
pushed.
When she was done, Greene had
filled a binder an inch and a half thick.
“The deterioration has been occur-
ring for years,” Greene said. “All the
maintenance work orders entered into
the maintenance program at the (Bu-
reau of Indian Affairs) have just been
unaddressed, and this leads to the
overall deterioration of the building.”
This month, the tribe received fed-
eral approval to build a new, modern
public safety facility and is now plan-
ning a 60-bed detention center to be
funded by the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs.
For Greene, who started at the de-
partment in 2006 and today oversees
corrections, the news was a major re-
lief.
“It’s exciting,” she said. “There’s a
lot of work to be done, but it will be
worth it at the end of the day.”
The jail has been effectively shut
down since August, when the tribe
determined it could no longer en-
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
Lt. Crystal Greene shows a Warm Springs jail holding cell where, as in other parts of the facility, the water pressure is very low and sometimes comes out brown in color.
sure the safety of inmates in light of
COVID-19 protocols. On a num-
ber of occasions, an inmate would
be booked into the jail and then jail
staff would learn the person had been
experiencing COVID-like symp-
toms. Since August, the department
has transported most inmates to the
Northern Oregon Regional Correc-
tional Facilities in The Dalles.
Up until August, the jail was sub-
ject to an increasing number of major
maintenance and design issues.
The common areas can’t accommo-
date more than 12 people at a time,
which affects activities like church
services and GED courses. The fire
alarms issue false alarms nearly every
day, the result of dirty sensors. And
the poor ventilation was noticeable to
jail staffers after leaving for the day,
to say nothing of the inmates forcibly
housed there.
“You can absolutely feel the differ-
ence when you leave,” Greene said.
The security monitors in the offi-
cer work station went down several
years ago, and Evolve, the company
that maintained them on behalf of the
federal government, is no longer in
business.
See Warm Springs / A4
Documentary, panel to explore homeless solutions Bend neighborhood
Seattle-based filmmaker Me-
linda Raebyne spent the win-
ter of 2017 at a homeless camp
in her city and was left with a
new perspective on the issue of
homelessness.
Raebyne found the residents
to be hard workers who strug-
gled to overcome various trau-
mas in their lives. The result
of her interactions led to her
award-winning 2019 docu-
mentary “Stories of Us: Camp
Second Chance.”
“If people could go one day
TODAY’S
WEATHER
advised to boil all
water due to E. coli
at a camp and watch things,
I think their minds would be
blown away,” Raebyne said.
Raebyne will screen her
film Aug. 7 in Bend as part of
an event that hopes to explore
solutions to homelessness.
The event, It Takes a Vil-
lage — Ending Homelessness
in Bend, is being hosted by
Companion Animal Medical
Project and Family Kitchen. It
runs from 7 to 10 p.m. and will
take place at Louisiana Avenue
between Wall and Bond streets
outside Bend City Hall.
88 homes west of the
city are affected
By KyLE SPurr
The Bulletin
Submitted
See documentary / A7
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INDEX
In a still from her 2019 documentary, “Stories of us: Camp Second
Chance,” filmmaker Melinda raebyne interviews people who are
experiencing homelessness in Seattle.
Business
Classifieds
Comics
A5-6
B7-8
B4-5
Dear Abby
Editorial
Horoscope
A7
B6
A7
Local/State
Lottery
Puzzles
A2-4, 7
B2
B5
Sports
B1-3
Deschutes County health
officials have advised anyone
using one of 88 homes west of
Bend to boil their water after
samples last week found E. coli
in the water system.
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Vol. 117, No. 329, 16 pages, 2 sections
The advisory, which was is-
sued July 16, includes water
used for drinking, cleaning
and showering. Jeff Freund,
an environmental health spe-
cialist with Deschutes County,
said eight samples were taken
during a monthly check and
one of them tested positive for
E. coli, a bacteria that can cause
food poisoning symptoms.
See E. coli / A4
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By KyLE SPurr
The Bulletin
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