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Should parking requirements be loosened to encourage more apartment construction?
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1,180 Votes

Should parking requirements be loosened to encourage more apartment construction?

Yes, they should be loosened!

5

No, they shouldn't!

18

Yes, they should be loosened!

5 Comments
Doug Klotz
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Doug Klotz

More housing, and lower price, is needed. Requiring parking, even when the tenants don't want to pay the cost of it, only raises housing prices, and reduces the amount that can be built on a parcel of land. If tenants want parking, and it's hard to find, developers can provide it.

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Tony Jordan
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Tony Jordan

People shouldn't be forced to purchase car parking to get housing. This won't stop parking from being built, it will provide more, much needed, housing options. People in the "No, they shouldn't!" column can pay for all the parking they want!

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Brad Livsey
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Brad Livsey

Absolutely!!!! In fact, why not just turn downtown Bend into a walking mall and restrict all vehicles and bicycles traffic whatsoever? Did it work in Eugene in the '70's. Absolutely not!! Most business' closed. Build apartments is akin to closing downtown Eugene. Restrice travel, close Bend retail!!

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Grace Bedell
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Grace Bedell

The government should not force auto subsidies on businesses or homes.

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Byron Buck
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Byron Buck

The younger generation are moving away from cars. Let the market decide this. People that need off street parking can seek those units. Those that don't, won't

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No, they shouldn't!

18 Comments
BendDrives
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BendDrives

Bend is already making significant changes to development codes to encourage construction. Eliminating all parking requirements is not necessary. Doing so would allow developers to avoid creating off-street parking and instead opt for on-street credits, often counting a single space multiple times.

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HS
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HS

If Bend's City Council and Planning Dept wants to continue to push people out of cars, they need to get serious about buses, bike lanes, and sidewalks - and snow clearing of sidewalks. This is just another handout our local government is giving to developers - and we voters want this to STOP.

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Judy Ostrom-Dixon
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Judy Ostrom-Dixon

Parking is a necessity!!!

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robert howard
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robert howard

way to many people in bend already, keep the californians and mexicans out.

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Ann Thomas
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Ann Thomas

If parking doesn't generate money....no developer will put in but the bare minimum! Bend's bus system is not adequate for working here let alone playing here!

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k san
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k san

Parking in Bend is already a problem. Any developer would have to ensure to his potential buyers that they have adequate parking... for the usual 2-car household and for visitors.

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Mike Walker
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Mike Walker

M. Walker The city has been steadily reducing parking rates for years and the on-street parking overflowing into the surrounding neighborhood just keeps getting worse. City should follow their Comprehensive Plan Policy #39 and practice the "right-sizing" approach staff championed in Dec 2017.

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Jeff Taylor
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Jeff Taylor

Letting developers determine adequate parking in developments is a terrible idea. Having minimum parking restrictions set by the city provides at minimum, parking year round. If we run out of space for development, that’s ok too.

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Linda Axelsen
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Linda Axelsen

Until Bend’s population and culture support a realistic mass-transit system people will continue to drive personal vehicles. We already have a undesirable on-street parking problem with the minimum set. Lowering that minimum is irresponsible to the quality of life most of us are seeking here.

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Caleb M.
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Caleb M.

I know who I'm not voting for next time around. Let's just allow people to live here who don't drive a car at all. Who needs parking.

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Gregory Knapp
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Gregory Knapp

I look at existing complexes apartments etc, and the public parking is taken by people living in these living spaces. It hurts the citizens that want to use these parking spaces to use when they want to go into a store or restaurant..

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David Flett
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David Flett

Expand the UGB if builders want to make more money. This does not have to be uncontrolled sprawl. It just needs to be sensible. People with no allotted parking will park on the street. Look around, people!

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Todd Brown
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Todd Brown

Parking spots are an essential part of housing! How ludicrous this even would be considered.

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Nancy
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Nancy

Make developers pay for the land, don't make it easy for them to build more homes. Our new city counsel members need to be educated on problems this creates keep parking for residents, and make developers follow the laws in place.

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Jeff Sorrick
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Jeff Sorrick

I understand land is a premium resource in Bend. By allowing developers to make that decision regarding the number of parking space will be a disaster. Give them an inch, they'll take a mile. Please please please, stop funding Visit Bend. A 5yr moratorium is needed. We don't need to advertise anymo

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Connie Murray
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Connie Murray

Just where will residents park? Can’t trust developers not to take advantage; they do already. Enough is enough.

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P Robbins
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P Robbins

Parking is a necessity whether you're in low-income or high-income housing. In an effort not to use more land for parking, the parking needs to go underground or on a lower level of the home/apartment. Ignoring the parking issue will place the parking burden on surrounding neighborhoods.

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

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

YES

0

NO

0

YES

0 Comment
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NO

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,336 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
1
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
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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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