News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
The owners of the Comfort Inn and Mountain Shadow RV Park will soon have to complete the next phase of the road that will link the Sisters Industrial Park with the future Sisters High School.
The new McKinney Butte Road will run south from Highway 20 next to the motel to The Pines development.
Improvement of that road was part of the original conditional use permit for the motel and RV park. The requirement was not enforced while the area surrounding the motel was undeveloped.
"Because it didn't go anywhere, we didn't push it," Frazee said. "Once The Pines was developed we told (Comfort Inn owner) Wayne Scott it was time to build the road."
The Comfort Inn did the grading and part of the sidewalk work in 2000. However, Sisters Public Works Director Gary Frazee recommended that paving of the road be delayed until sewer pipes were laid. Now, he said, the city is ready to order the road completed.
There may be some issues to resolve.
Comfort Inn manager Tom Anderson said the motel is not hooked up to its own sewer connection and he doesn't want to pave the road until that connection is established, for fear the connection would require digging up new pavement.
The motel is currently hooked up to the sewer through the RV park's connection.
According to Frazee, that is the motel's connection.
"We feel it's done," Frazee said. "There was never a question of the motel being hooked up one place and the RV park being hooked up another."
The new Barclay Road extension running from the Sisters Industrial Park to Highway 20 is on schedule for completion at the beginning of November.
That road will intersect with the section that is to be finished by the Comfort Inn.
The McKinney Butte Road will start at that intersection and run south-southwest to the new Sisters High School. The school district will fund the remainder of the project.
When all the pieces are completed, they will form a road network that will allow a driver on Camp Polk Road to get to the high school without driving through downtown Sisters.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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