Should Bend have tougher regulations to protect urban trees?

Asked by KTVZ

715 Votes

Should Bend have tougher regulations to protect urban trees?

62%

Yes Yes

38%

No No

62%

Yes

6 Comments

Kat Applegate

We are losing too many large trees in Bend. Among other things, they are a carbon sink. We can't afford to lose them.

Latterdaysaint

Climate change is nothing to worry about

Duane Wyman

Just look at the RV park clear cut along Murphy Road and the Parkway overpass! Massive, stripping the land of mature Ponderosa Pines - totally not good! Wasn't Bend once proclaimed a "Tree City USA" resource? NOT.

Paul Bianchina

The "New Bend" is in the pocket of the big developers, which includes allowing them to clear-cut huge areas of land while Bend pretends to be a "tree city". Look at the older developments, and you'll see how trees used to be saved. Builders need to work around the trees instead of destroying them.

Wendy Olstad

For starters I like trees more than houses. And developers have gotten away with murder just clearing whole lots of every little bit of vegetation. Bend is losing a lot of charm and it gets worse every day.

Mary Kay Boldajipour

Bend let the car wash on Reed Lane remove a beautiful tree! For a car wash! With no need! That area is empty and has little landscaping.

Latterdaysaint

The government shouldn't control us

Yet you constantly say how the government should control women, LGBTQ+ communities, anyone that isn't a cis white male. You are a Nazi, Gabe. Just calling a spade a spade. And climate change is real, boo-boo. Your bishop must be mortified at your constant ignorance.

38%

No

1 Comment

Phil Spreier

Bend is a densely forested area. You can’t build much larger than a shed without clearing tree. Why should the City be able to tell me what I can do with the trees on my property? Welcome to the Peoples Republic of Bend.

You should definitely move to an area where there's more simple-minded folks like yourself to hang with.

Latterdaysaint

I agree

Do you support the cellphone ban in Oregon schools?

Asked by KTVZ

181 Votes

Do you support the cellphone ban in Oregon schools?

91%

YES YES

9%

NO NO

91%

YES

4 Comments

Steve Reeves

Many of my students display addictive behaviors regarding their phones, and it has proven detrimental to their learning and social development. Any positive of cell phone use is vastly outweighed by negative consequences.

Sam Davis

Long overdue. Students need to focus on being educated in school, not watching videos, playing games, & chatting with each other. Educators and others do not need the distraction that cell cause. If there are emergencies that students need to know about there are other ways for them to find out.

David Kline

My teaching friends say it's been a battle to keep kids off their phones in class and wastes a bunch of class time time addressing this. How will this be enforced any differently though?

Kimmy Wasatch

Between cell phone usage and lower graduating standards, OR is failing students

9%

NO

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Given the recent wildfires near Redmond, would you support a personal fireworks ban?

Asked by KTVZ

161 Votes

Given the recent wildfires near Redmond, would you support a personal fireworks ban?

Should Bend have tougher regulations to protect urban trees?

62%

Yes Yes

38%

No No

62%

Yes

38%

No

Do you support the cellphone ban in Oregon schools?

91%

YES YES

9%

NO NO

91%

YES

9%

NO

Given the recent wildfires near Redmond, would you support a personal fireworks ban?

78%

YES YES

22%

NO NO

78%

YES

22%

NO

Should Bend have tougher regulations to protect urban trees?

62% Yes Yes

38% No No

62% Yes

38% No

Do you support the cellphone ban in Oregon schools?

91% YES YES

9% NO NO

91% YES

9% NO

Given the recent wildfires near Redmond, would you support a personal fireworks ban?

78% YES YES

22% NO NO

78% YES

22% NO

62%

Yes Yes

38%

No No

62%

Yes

38%

No

91%

YES YES

9%

NO NO

91%

YES

9%

NO

78%

YES YES

22%

NO NO

78%

YES

22%

NO