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Should Bend restaurants continue to occupy parking spaces?
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653 Votes

Should Bend restaurants continue to occupy parking spaces?

Yes

1

No

16

Yes

1 Comment
Mary Gemba
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Mary Gemba

It's more welcoming to the businesses as well as the businesses surrounding the restaurant/bar/eaterie. I don't understand why a neighboring store would not approve. It just brings more eyes on the surrounding businesses rather than detract from them.

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No

16 Comments
Matthew Hiatt
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Matthew Hiatt

There is already a shortage of parking in the downtown area. Bend needs more parking, not less. Especially in the face of a major population explosion in our city

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Yellow Poppy
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Yellow Poppy

The City proposed & promised this was temporary, during covid. These spaces sit idle/empty for 8 months/year. Do the math: 1 spot, 2 hr limit, 9 hours/day. Invaluable! People come downtown to spend $. The City is making $ while taking away from the majority of our downtown business. Gross!

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Terree Putman
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Terree Putman

We need the parking spaces available-- It was nice during the pandemic but let's move on to back to before!!

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P Robbins
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P Robbins

We need parking. Restaurants seem able to accomodate diners with indoor spaces.

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daniel tovar
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daniel tovar

I believe that there was a time for this, yet now with the talk of different parking features being implemented for downtown we the people need the spaces. There was a report that spaces in Portland have gone up in rent, has this happened in Bend? Quit giving away our streets to chase money.

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Ron Maurer
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Ron Maurer

There is not enough parking downtown as it is, then the city sells off more parking spaces. What are you thinking!

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Gary Dehm
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Gary Dehm

If a restaurant wants outside seating then they should look for a new location. Outdoor seating should have been temporary for the COVID 19 period only. We have unresolved parking issues downtown. Restaurants should want to be good neighbors to other businesses and open those spaces back up.

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Kimmy Wasatch
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Kimmy Wasatch

Bend traffic and parking are very difficult, especially when there are people sitting in the streets.

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Tracy Evans
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Tracy Evans

I haven't been down town Bend in over 3 years now! They don't like trucks and there is never any parking! I'm a Bend Native and I feel like my money doesn't spend as good as the tourists around here.

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Tracy Evans
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Tracy Evans

I haven't been down town Bend in over 3 years now. They don't like trucks and I can never find parking! I was born and raised here, I feel like I'm the minority.

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Sheri Bellefeuille
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Sheri Bellefeuille

Parking was already difficult, pretty pandemic. It also makes downtown look crowded and messy. We should go back to pre pandemic

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Kevin Nik Myles Hayward
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Kevin Nik Myles Hayward

It's time to free up Parking spaces in Downtown Bend. The Pandemic is over.

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Nicole Jackson
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Nicole Jackson

There are very limited, close to store parking spaces, & I intentionally avoid being a customer of restaurants in the spaces that choose to continue to take parking from the people.

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Joshua McVey
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Joshua McVey

The only one who benefits from this is the restaurants, because they can increase capacity. Meanwhile, other businesses lose our because the limited parking they have are taken up by people willing to dine downtown, but are too cheap to pay to use the nearby parking garage.

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Rod Fredrickson
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Rod Fredrickson

Parking is bad enough without having spaces for bars, etc.

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

No, there limited parking already downtown why make it worse

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Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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174 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

0 Comment
No one has commented yet
    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,337 Votes

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

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
3
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
1
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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