After many years of planning and waiting, the SSD finally has its training facility. Page 5
INSIDE THIS ISSUE SROA News ................... 4 Calendar ..................... 13 SHARC News ............... 22
Public Safety ............... 27 Classified .................... 38 Letters ........................ 39
The Sunriver Music Festival celebrates Leonard Bernstein. The concert series begins Aug. 9 Page 6
S U N R I V E R
S C E N E A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION
AUGUST • 2018
VOLUME XLIV • NUMBER 8
County commissioners reopen Caldera Springs expansion plan By Susan Berger, Sunriver Scene The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners has authorized a request by Pine Forest Development LLC to reopen the record relative to the expansion of Caldera Springs to allow the applicant to submit a revised development plan. In 2015, Pine Forest initiated a conceptual master plan (CMP) to expand Caldera Springs, located south of Sunriver. In April 2016, a county hearings officer approved the CMP, which included a maximum of 395 single-family units, a maximum of 95 overnight lodging units as well as other recreation and resort-related facilities. Central Oregon LandWatch appealed the county’s decision to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) identifying several issues: 1) Whether the overnight lodging units in the existing resort are “separate” units and qualify under Destination Resort statute as “overnight lodging,” 2) Whether the expansion area will be operated in a manner integral to the remainder of the resort and 3) The relocation of a wildlife mitigation tract within the Caldera annexation area. Since the appeal, Pine Forest and LandWatch have been negotiating the terms for a revised CMP and notified the county that both parties now wish to stipulate to the terms of a remand decision. The commissioners authorized reopening the record for the project during its July 2 meeting. The county was notified of the following: CMP changes • As part of the original CMP, the applicant set aside approximately 125 acres as a Wildlife Mitigation Tract. The tract was located on the eastern boundary of the resort. Based on negotiations with LandWatch, the applicant has enlarged the tract to approximately 221 acres and relocated it to the southern edge of the resort. According to the applicant, this will provide better wildlife connectivity T C, SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XLIV • NUMBER 8 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
New police, fire chiefs sworn in In a brief ceremony prior to the Sunriver Service District Board Meeting on July 19, both the new Sunriver Police Chief Cory Darling and Sunriver Fire Chief Tim Moor were officially sworn in. It was standing room only as each chief, with right hand raised, read the swear in language. The occasion was also marked with the pinning of their respective badges by their wives. Both chiefs are local to the area. Darling was previously captain at the Bend Police Department and Tim Moor was chief of the Redmond Fire Department. The Scene will provide more information about the chiefs in the September issue.
PHOTOS BY SUSAN BERGER
Top photo: Sunriver Service District chair Jim Fister, right, congratulates Cory Darling following his official swear in as the new Sunriver Police Chief. Bottom photo: Amy Moor congratulates husband Tim Moor after pinning on his new badge as Sunriver’s Fire Chief.
First tunnel replacement almost complete By Susan Berger, Sunriver Scene SROA NEWS – By the time you read this the final touches should be underway on Sunriver’s new pathway tunnel that runs under West Cascade Road near the Ranch Cabins west of Circle 4. Construction, which took just over four weeks, included closing and tearing out a section of West Cascade Road, the old corrugated metal tunnel, excavating, regrading and widening the area
to accommodate the new, larger tunnel design. It was relatively smooth sailing during the first couple weeks of construction until crews hit a pocket of seemingly impenetrable volcanic basalt. Crews spent a week breaking up and removing the stubborn stone. But, thanks to that pocket of rock, it was discovered that some utilities were not in the correct location or buried to a required depth,
resulting in temporary connections and rerouting. “We’re having to fix what wasn’t installed correctly in the first place,” said Mark Smith, SROA Public Works Director. “We have learned a ton and will do things differently moving forward with future tunnel construction to ensure each utility is located correctly.” Although originally scheduled for a July 31 completion date, the date has been moved to Aug. 10 – barring the T T, PRSRT STD. U.S. POSTAGE PAID BEND, OR PERMIT NO. 213