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Bend committee debates community-support scoring, asks staff to draft clearer benchmarks
Summary
Committee members asked staff to reduce subjectivity in affordable-housing scoring criteria — especially the “strong community support” question — and requested staff produce scaled benchmarks and calculation tools for subjective items before the next cycle.
Members of the Bend Affordable Housing Advisory Committee discussed proposed edits to the affordable-housing scoring criteria and asked staff to return with clearer, scaled benchmarks and automatic calculations for several items.
The committee focused much of its discussion on the scoring question that awards points for “strong community support with sufficient evidence.” Committee members said letters of support are often subjective, sometimes generic, and can be burdensome for applicants to assemble; members suggested alternatives including a binary yes/no field for demonstrable outreach or a reduced point…
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