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Will the Hawthorne Overpass make it easier for you to get around Bend?
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406 Votes

Will the Hawthorne Overpass make it easier for you to get around Bend?

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No

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Yes

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No

11 Comments
Rick Allen
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Rick Allen

I try to avoid Bend as much as possible.

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Tracy Evans
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Tracy Evans

If you're going to spend that kind of money, then maybe you should use it for better use. The homeless could use more refurbished hotel/motels and or you could just build a facility. Trying to make our city pretty for the sake of wasting money makes me wonder what our city counselors are thinking.

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Jon Krutsch
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Jon Krutsch

If the Franklin and Greenwood underpasses were not close by, it wouldn't be a total waste. But they are so it is.

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Ben Hargis
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Ben Hargis

The homeless won't even use it.... they'll continue to just wander across the parkway at their own leisure.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Only for those in that direct vicinity. How many people really need to cross right there anyway?

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Sam Ackerman
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Sam Ackerman

I dont walk or ride a bike to go shopping or to work. 20 million is a lot of money to spend for another very short bike/walking trail.

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d zimmerman
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d zimmerman

I use Hawthorne exit from parkway. Construction will block it and its not clear if it will reopen after construction

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Lorie Whitson
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Lorie Whitson

It's a big waist of money.

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snowzone
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snowzone

Get real!! who's going to use it. That's $25,000,000 to get a handful of people across the parkway that could be put to better use.

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snowzone
snowzone

for $25 million if 500 people cross it in a year that's 5000 in 10 years That's $5000 a crossing. Buy them a cab.

StevenandAnn Kyman
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StevenandAnn Kyman

Don't see any benefit for anyone other than maybe those who can sell land to the city. I live in SE Bend. I am not going to drive over to the bridge, park, cross over the bridge, and walk several blocks to downtown.

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Do you think safe parking spots are a good way to combat the homelessness?

Do you think safe parking spots are a good way to combat the homelessness?

YES

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NO

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YES

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Charles Hemingway
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Charles Hemingway

Safe parking programs have a proven track record of successfully taking people from being homeless into having a place of their own. Safe parking programs cut down on costs to cities for ambulance calls, police calls, visits to emergency rooms and mental health crises that costs taxpayers money.

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Duane Wyman
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Duane Wyman

Perhaps? Hiding the un-housed in various random locations doesn't solve much. This is just another band-aid solution! Seems just the latest adaptation of "kicking the can down the road"...?

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NO

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Instead of a hand out, give a hand up

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Kellie Beck Fletcher
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Kellie Beck Fletcher

Stop increasing rent 2026 passed 9.5 percent rent increase will push more people into being homeless .. where is the cap we are already paying ridiculous prices for rent how can anyone save for a home. Not sure why you people can’t figure this out You’re pushing Oregonians out.

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Do you support the rule changes aimed at reducing light pollution in Central Oregon?

Do you support the rule changes aimed at reducing light pollution in Central Oregon?

Yes

4

No

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Yes

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Jane CommunityMember
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Jane CommunityMember

People should not have to put up with annoying intrusive lights that inconsiderate neighbors install

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Chris Hill
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Chris Hill

Board Member of DarkSky Oregon who worked on this with Deschutes County. Currently working to update the 24 year old City of Bend lighting ordinance.

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Thomas Orr
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Thomas Orr

I like seeing stars at night. and birds migration is important.

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Katherine GoldenEagle
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Katherine GoldenEagle

We live across the street from a duplex that has one of those motion sensor lights on the garage. It's soooo bright it lights up my bedroom and my son's and our living room. Thats just ridiclous

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No

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