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Public hearing on Cascades Academy plan amendment and zone change set open-record window through July 16
Summary
The Board heard a hybrid public hearing on a comprehensive plan amendment and zone change for Cascades Academy, accepted testimony, and set a 14-day open-record period for additional written evidence with rebuttal and final-argument deadlines through July 16.
The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners opened a hybrid public hearing Wednesday on a proposed comprehensive plan amendment and zone change affecting about 22.5 acres adjacent to the existing Cascades Academy campus and set an open-record schedule for additional written materials.
Senior planner Nicole Mardell summarized the request: the applicant seeks to change the comprehensive-plan designation from agricultural and surface mining to a Rural Residential Exception Area and to rezone the property from Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) and Surface Mining to Multiple-Use Agricultural (MUA 10). The property includes seven tax lots totaling 22.5 acres; roughly 4.03 acres are in a surface-mine overlay and about 18.47 acres are EFU. Staff noted mapped wetlands associated with an on-site irrigation canal and a Landscape…
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