WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
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New housing development proposed
The 350-acre site is
near Highway 207
and Feedville Road
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
As Hermiston homes
continue to be snapped up
almost as soon as they hit
the market, some relief
could be coming in the form
of a major new housing
development off Highway
207 and Feedville Road.
There is still work to be
done — including a re-plat-
ting process through the city
to divide the property into
residential lots — before
developer Don Howell of
Columbia Basin Land, LLC
can say for certain the proj-
ect will happen. But he is
optimistic.
Howell said it is too soon
to say for certain what size
all of the lots will be, or
how many of each type of
housing would be built in
the first phase of the proj-
ect. But overall he envi-
sions a mixed-use “mas-
ter-planned” development
called The Hayfields, fea-
turing a variety of housing
options interspersed with
open fields, trails, commu-
nity gardens and a build-
ing to serve as a gathering
space.
“There is an unfilled
demand for quality housing
in this community,” he said.
There is room on the
350-acre property for hun-
dreds of homes, even with
Howell’s plan to leave some
areas open space to give res-
idents a view of vegetation
instead of the back of their
neighbor’s house.
While he envisions
streets of more compact
lots serving snowbirds who
spend part of the year in
another state and families
looking for affordable hous-
ing, he also wants to pro-
vide larger lots for people
who want to live in city lim-
its but have some extra land.
On the bluff with a
north-facing view, Howell
would also like to provide
a neighborhood of high-end
homes that could sell for as
high as $1 million.
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Columbia Basin Land, LLC, would like to develop on their 350-acre property on Feedville Road southwest of Hermiston.
“High-end
housing here has
gone to the Tri-
Cities. We want
to draw some of
that back.”
Don Howell,
developer,
Columbia Basin Land, LLC
The Feedvillle Road property has room to build
hundreds of high-end homes.
“High-end housing here
has gone to the Tri-Cities,”
he said. “We want to draw
some of that back.”
Of course, all that has to
pencil out financially.
Realtors agree Herm-
iston’s housing market is
booming, but not all types
of housing are in equal
demand.
Colleen Winfrey of
Miller Realty said $150,000
to $250,000 homes are in
particularly high demand.
Miller Realty worked with
a developer recently on
sales for a new subdivision
of those types of homes in
McNary, and she said it only
took about 45 days to sell
the 24 houses, well before
ground had been broken on
any of them.
“They were just gone,”
she said.
She said she thought
mixed-use
development
Ukiah man faces manslaughter
for fatal Morrow County crash
the scene. He was 35.
State police at the time
reported, “Alcohol, speed
and safety restraints are
being considered as factors
in this crash.”
Nelson said the OSP
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Friday with Enriquez’s
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Enriquez has convictions
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sured and in years past for
other driving offenses. He
also has convictions start-
ing in 1994 for second-de-
gree burglary, fourth-de-
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possession.
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Anthony King Enriquez
of Ukiah faces the charge
of first-degree manslaugh-
ter for the crash last month
that killed Joshua Kenneth
Herrig of Heppner.
Morrow County District
Attorney Justin Nelson
said his office on Monday
arraigned Enriquez on that
charge plus reckless driv-
ing and driving under the
influence of intoxicants.
Enriquez, 42, was driv-
ing a 1999 Dodge pickup
north on Highway 74 near
Lexington the evening of
March 21 when he lost
control and the vehicle
rolled several times, Ore-
gon State Police reported.
Enriquez suffered non-
life threatening injuries,
but the crash ejected Her-
rig, the only passenger in
Enriquez’ car, who died at
“Maybe you can
support $700,000
homes in Bend,
but the number of
people who can
support that price
range here are few.”
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with varying prices and
styles of home is a good
idea for large development
in Hermiston, when done
right.
“It has to be a balance
that can make it profitable,”
she said.
Asked about the demand
for high-end homes, she
said with Hermiston’s large
base of working families
those would likely be a
harder sell.
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“Maybe you can support
$700,000 homes in Bend,
but the number of people
who can support that price
range here are few,” she
said.
On the other hand, Win-
frey said, when someone
is looking for that range of
home in Hermiston there are
very few options so there
probably is some level of
opportunity there.
One thing Winfrey said
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Colleen Winfrey,
Miller Realty
people are looking for
is homes with three-car
garages. Older homes stuck
to one or two, she said,
but now it’s common for
two working parents and a
teenage child to have three
cars between them, mak-
ing a three-car garage in hot
demand.
Before any housing is
built on the Feedville prop-
erty, it would have to go
through a re-platting pro-
cess to divide it into lots.
City planner Clint Spen-
cer said the city had some
preliminary
discussions
with Howell, and it would
be reasonable to get the
re-plat done in time to break
ground this summer, which
is what Howell said he is
hoping to do if all goes as
planned. Howell said the
city has been “excellent” to
work with so far.
The property is already
zoned for residential use.
At one time it was a feedlot,
but after a different hous-
ing developer purchased it
and had plans for a com-
munity situated around a
golf course, the city went
through an 18-month pro-
cess to bring it inside the
urban growth boundary.
Spencer said the city
went through the trouble of
expanding the urban growth
boundary because they
wanted more control over
what happened to the prop-
erty, which had presented
odor nuisance issues during
its feedlot days, and would
likely not have done so if
a credible developer hadn’t
presented plans for a resi-
dential neighborhood.
Those plans — under a
different property owner
than Columbia Basin Land
— ultimately fell through,
but plans are being devel-
oped for it once again. How-
ell said some projects by the
city that brought water and
sewer closer to the property
have helped reduce devel-
opment costs this time,
making it more realistic to
build housing there.
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