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Do you agree with Bend's 'tiny homes' rules?
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1,106 Votes

Do you agree with Bend's 'tiny homes' rules?

Yes

1

No

20

Yes

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Trinity Hall
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Trinity Hall

The council make enough salary to buy apartment buildings or big mansions while normal people are left to be judged by them who live in a bubble.

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No

18 Comments
Lynn Huntley
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Lynn Huntley

People should be able to build what they can afford. They need to conform to SOME regulations, but don't make it so difficult for everyone. And people need to keep their noses out of neighbors' business.

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Katie Cramer
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Katie Cramer

I have a tiny house, and when I went down to the county to try to obtain a legal permit the guy working LAUGHED IN MY FACE. The city needs to do more to provide options for the middle class. I work full time, born and raised here with a college degree and I can barely afford Bend anymore...

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

$1500.00 a day is a cruel and completely out of place fine. Everybody would/should agree $1500.00 a day is outlandish plus affordable house is hard to come by

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Sue Abernathy
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Sue Abernathy

I do not agree with the cities regulations on tiny homes. There is no affordable housing for regular people trying to make a living.

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Kris dane
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Kris dane

His tiny home should be counted as a RV if it's on wheels they're being ridiculous and the neighbor is freaking nosy for turning him in people don't have anything better to do than bother other people that are trying to make a home for themselves unbelievable I'm glad I don't live there

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Darla Ballenger
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Darla Ballenger

Go get license plates for your trailer then it's a vehicle and you should be allowed to park at your driveway. Also check your laws there is always a loophole to be found. If you own the property look up homesteading. Join tiny homes on Facebook they have a lot of advice lots of lawyers join them.

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Kevin Nik Myles Hayward
Kevin Nik Myles Hayward

My HOA only allows one shed in our backyards. So the second shed will be on wheels with a tow hitch. Therefore second shed is not a shed at all. It's a tailor.

Your Face
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Your Face

It's on his property, go collect money somewhere else, Bend.

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Mark Davis
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Mark Davis

The City of Bend gives only lip service to affordable housing.

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Kevin Nik Myles Hayward
Kevin Nik Myles Hayward

Affordable housing is only lip service. A very ambiguous term. Affordable for who? Affordability is a subjective term.

Michele Scales
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Michele Scales

It's his property. The home is nice. People need to mind their own damn business. I could see if it was something that was endangering someone else but we have apartments here in Washington state that are smaller than that.

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Dianne Price
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Dianne Price

It gives someone a place to live.

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Rich Waters
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Rich Waters

City encouraged such building. Yes, builder should have obtained permit BUT the City itself set up the road- blocks to do so. What a bunch of hooey! Ugh.

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Angela Day
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Angela Day

There is a housing crisis in Oregon and the tuny home met all criteria except for wheelchairs. There are lots of 2nd story apartment buildings that cannot be accessed by Wheelchairs. The city is afraid of affordable housing. They just want people on the streets!

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Kevin Nik Myles Hayward
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Kevin Nik Myles Hayward

Just more liberal regulators. Bend has become over regulated and over priced. Ease the regulations and just leave people alone to live their lives in a way they can afford. Stop the ridiculousness already! $1,500 a day? You've all lost your ever loin' minds. You simply have no hearts and souls.

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Bobbie Newby
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Bobbie Newby

The rules that Deschutes have is why we have so many homeless and the rents are outrageous. So we will continue to see people on streets as the county workers laugh in our faces as we try to deal with their messes . I say too much government is making our lives unbearable

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Paul Reich
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Paul Reich

Just park on the street and live there in anything RV,car,truck,tent anything for ever

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Jackie
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Jackie

Californians have destroyed everything in their paths like a locust plague.

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Magdalena
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Magdalena

Absolutely disgusting and assured that Counties are fighting this type of solution to extremely high rents and low surplus of affordable housing. I am so very tired of short sighted , uninspired government...both local and federal. We need solutions and Tiny Homes offer a truly viable one.

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Have you been experiencing more stress after the 2024 election?
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228 Votes

Have you been experiencing more stress after the 2024 election?

YES

0

NO

2

YES

0 Comment
No one has commented yet

NO

2 Comments
Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Of course not, trump will make America great again!

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

I am glad that we were Blue over all on the West coast. Those flyover states have too much say.

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Do you support a traffic light at the Reed Market and Bond St roundabout?
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529 Votes

Do you support a traffic light at the Reed Market and Bond St roundabout?

YES

4

NO

8

YES

2 Comments
Kit Cohan
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Kit Cohan

I prefer metering to increasing the number of lanes. More than one lane makes roundabouts much more dangerous to navigate, especially with drivers who are not locals and do not understand how roundabouts work. 2 lanes = many more accidents plus 2 lanes need to be a much larger diameter for safety.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

You're literally bumper to bumper from the Bill Healy bridge. The people from the Old Mill Never Cease coming.

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NO

8 Comments
Dennis Douglas
1
Dennis Douglas

If it weren’t so maddening, our City counselors would make for a cast in a Monty Python show. They befuddle themselves with ludicrous ideas and foist them onto the taxpayers. Bend is becoming a laughing stock to outsiders and a source of continual angst for the residents.

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SUE ABERNATHY
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SUE ABERNATHY

Isn't that why they put the round about in because stop lights were going to cost to much????? Just saying.

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sara kreps
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sara kreps

doesn't this defeat the purpose of a roundabout? might as well make it a regular intersection with lights.

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Dave Krajczynski
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Dave Krajczynski

If people used the roundabout correctly and actually filled in the gaps and went when there was an opening it would flow just fine. People wait for a bus sized gap before they go.

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Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders

The people coming from the Old Mill Never Cease coming. Traffic is backed up to Bill Healy bridge everyday. At least in the winter.

Chris Gonzales
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Chris Gonzales

A roundabout's primary purpose in traffic management is to improve safety and traffic flow, resulting in less congestion and fewer accidents compared to traditional stoplight intersections. Key words: Flow, less congestion and Stoplights. Now they want to add Stoplights!!! City waste at its Best!

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

The point of the roundabouts was to get rid of lights

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Fletcher Jackson
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Fletcher Jackson

What's the point of having a light at a roundabout? The point of a roundabout is to get rid of the lights. Widen it and start growing for the people coming here. The way bend builds, everything is obsolete by the time it's done.

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Tim Walker
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Tim Walker

I drive through this around about several times everyday and it is never an issue very rarely. Is it an issue? The reason they put roundabouts in for the first place was to get rid of stop lights and stop signs

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Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders

It's bumper to bumper from the Bill Healy bridge.

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