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Is $200 a fair fine for not clearing private walkways?
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510 Votes

Is $200 a fair fine for not clearing private walkways?

Yes, could go higher

3

No, should be lower

9

Yes, could go higher

3 Comments
Richard Dillard
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Richard Dillard

Yes and the city should look for the ones not clearing the walkways not just wait for complaints.

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JohnWayne Kenneth Pool
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JohnWayne Kenneth Pool

Safety and responsibility.

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No, should be lower

9 Comments
Michael Miller
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Michael Miller

Contractors hired by the city plow all kinds of snow/ice onto our sidewalk, ruining my efforts to keep it clean. In situations where the city works against homeowners, there should be no fine.

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Leslie Ann
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Leslie Ann

There are very valid reasons some people don't clear their walkways.

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Carol Fulkerson
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Carol Fulkerson

This is a hard one for me to find a good answer due to my advocacy for disability issues. I am afraid $200 fines would be routinely waived by municipal judges. $125 might not be waived.

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Linda Nolin
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Linda Nolin

I know of a couple people that can't clear their side walks while using their walkers or canes. Maybe if people would not charge so much.

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Ka San
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Ka San

That is crazy high!! I could see maybe $25/day, but $200 is beyond most folks' reach when clearing may not be possible after such heavy snows. Folks walk in the street in n'hoods even w/cleared walks.

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Cathie Crawford
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Cathie Crawford

We are not young, but manage to keep the sidewalk clear - until the grader piles it with 3-4 feet of ice. No way can we clear it now!

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Kenneth Swipies
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Kenneth Swipies

Should be no fine at all. I believe the sidewalks belong to the city. Let them clean it up. Private walkways are a different matter, however, I seriously doubt the owner does not clean them up.

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Brian Allen
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Brian Allen

Will the same fine be applied to the city? I can walk downtown and most homes and businesses are clear except the bridge sidewalk.

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Ann Harbert Evensen
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Ann Harbert Evensen

Until the city stops plowing street snow on to sidewalks, there should not be fines.

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Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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179 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

0

NO

0

YES

0 Comment
No one has commented yet

NO

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,338 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
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Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
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Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
1
Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
1
Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
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Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
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Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
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Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
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jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
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Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
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Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
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Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

1 Comment
Diana Cockerill
1
Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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