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Board sets Aug. 6 hearing on Mackenzie Meadow Village rezoning request near Sisters

5499892 · July 29, 2025
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Summary

A work session prepared the Deschutes County Board for a de novo hearing on Aug. 6 for a plan amendment and zone change request by Mackenzie Meadow Village LLC, affecting roughly 50 acres north of Sisters and including a Goal 4 exception request related to forest lands.

The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners held a work session July 29 to prepare for an Aug. 6 de novo hearing on a comprehensive plan amendment and zone change application from Mackenzie Meadow Village LLC. The application would re-designate roughly 50 acres north of the City of Sisters from forest to rural residential/Multiple-Use Agricultural 10 and seeks a Goal 4 exception related to forest lands.

Senior planner Holly King summarized the application and the administrative record, noting the hearings officer recommended approval on June 25 following an open-record period. King said the application parcel sits immediately north of Sisters city limits and the UGB; it abuts Trout Creek Conservation tract and the Sisters school district property and is adjacent to Deschutes National Forest in places.…

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