News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
The Sisters Comprehensive Plan, which has been under study since 1990, was sent to the county in January for informal review.
It was later revealed that the county's formal stamp of approval is required by a joint, city/county Urban Growth Management Agreement.
The oversight came as a surprise to both entities and no county study was scheduled at that time for the Sisters plan.
George Reed, director of the Deschutes County Community Development Department, said, however, another project has been bumped to get the Sisters plan on the department's project list. He said the Tumalo Service Center Comprehensive Plan will have to wait until next year for consideration.
Brian Harrington, County Planning Division planner, said the Sisters plan will be studied in two work sessions before it is reviewed in a public hearing before the county planning commission.
Following this process, the document is to be reviewed again, this time in a joint meeting of the Sisters City Council and the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners.
Harrington said the county is not likely to be done with the plan until summer.
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