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Bend vows UGB appeal if state does not budge
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By Nick Grube The Bulletin
The city of Bend is willing to take the state to court for the chance to plan its own growth. If the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development doesn’t make certain concessions regarding Bend’s contentious plan to increase the size of its urban growth boundary, the city will challenge the ruling to the State Court of Appeals. Bend has been fighting with the
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state for much of the past year over its UGB proposal, which once approved by the DLCD will dictate how and where the city will be able to grow during the next 20 years.
Build out or up? The basic crux of that battle has been whether Bend really needed as much land as it wanted to add to its UGB — about 8,500 acres — or if it should focus on developing vacant
lots and increasing density within the current limits. Last month, the Land Conservation and Development Commission issued a draft order of what the city must do to get DLCD’s blessing for a UGB expansion. While it took city officials a couple of weeks to digest the 156-page report and prepare their responses, this week they sent a somewhat stern and sometimes conciliatory letter to the state seeking certain changes. See UGB / A4
Park officials The Santiam Wagon Road discuss killing makes the National Register more geese HISTORY PRESERVED
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By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
The Bend Park & Recreation District will consider the option of killing more of the Canada geese that have taken up residence in area parks in November and December. At a district work session Tuesday night, Park Services Director Ed Moore told board members that the goose population has shown little measurable decline since June, when 109 geese were herded into pens and euthanized. Parks staff and wildlife service agents with the U.S. Department of Agriculture have spent the last few months “hazing” the geese with a dog, a kayak and a paintball gun, in the hopes that some would be persuaded into leaving the area. A count just prior to the June goose cull indicated approximately 340 geese living in local parks, Moore said. There has been some progress, according to Natural Resource Manager Paul Stell, who said park visitors have reported fewer problems with goose droppings in the parks since the 109 geese were removed. See Geese / A4
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The Santiam Wagon Road officially opened in 1866 and connected the Willamette Valley and the Deschutes River Basin. From the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries, the road helped contribute to economic development on both sides of the Cascade Mountains by providing a more reliable route to facilitate trade, commerce and communication, according to the state. Willamette Valley residents also traveled east across the Cascades to settle in Central Oregon. In 1920, the McKenzie Highway opened and the wagon road became largely obsolete.
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By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Brady Dennis The Washington Post
On Florida’s west coast, where the housing bust has flooded courts with foreclosure filings, the chief judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit has little sympathy for lenders who have submitted flawed and possibly fraudulent foreclosure cases. Thomas McGrady, whose jurisdiction includes two hard-hit counties with more than 1 million people in the Tampa area, said Monday that foreclosures based on improper paperwork should be tossed out. Judges “are going to have to vacate that judgment and start over again,” he said. Across the country, judges facing pressure from homeowners and their attorneys are beginning to re-examine old cases and dismiss pending ones. The trend could lead to overturned evictions, and it could stall foreclosure cases for years and scare away buyers of millions of seized properties clogging the real estate market. See Foreclosures / A4
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1 This photo shows people camping at Fish Lake circa 1890-1905 by the Santiam Wagon Road,
which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in late September. The lake is near the junction of U.S. Highway 20 and state Highway 126, along one of the best-preserved sections of the Santiam Wagon Road. Today, this section is easily accessible to the public, and there are interpretative panels about the wagon road and how people traveled along it at the Fish Lake Guard Station.
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The passage of time and creeping vegetation have narrowed to a single track some portions of the historic Santiam Wagon Road, which opened Central Oregon to settlers from the West in 1866. Yet grave markers alongside the road, and stories told by history buffs, serve as reminders of the challenging conditions that Oregon pioneers faced in the state’s early days. On Tuesday, the State Historic Preservation Office announced the federal gov- “It was a vital ernment had economic link recognized the wagon road’s between the historical value Willamette Valley by adding part of the trail to the and Eastern National Reg- Oregon. It was ister of Historic Places in late unique in that a September. lot of travel went The portion from west to of the trail listed on the National east. Traditionally, Register is ap- we think of the proximately 38 miles long, and Oregon trail passes through bringing folks out the Willamette National Forest West.” and the Des— Cathy Lindberg, chutes National Forest, accord- heritage program ing to Oregon’s manager, Willamette application for National Forest the designation. A few privately owned portions of the road in this area were not included. The road’s listing on the register will not significantly alter the management of the route, a historian with the state Historic Preservation Office has said. However, it could bring more attention to the road and create more opportunities for the Forest Service to seek grants for maintenance and interpretative installations along the trail, said Cathy Lindberg, heritage program manager for the Willamette National Forest. On a section of the road in Linn County, people can see the grave site of Charity Ann Noble, who died during childbirth and was buried next to the wagon road during the late 1800s, according to Oregon’s National Register application. See Santiam / A5
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