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Planning commission approves waterway overlay rebuild and setback variances for 424 NW Columbia St.

Bend Planning Commission · October 28, 2025
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Summary

The Bend Planning Commission approved a waterway overlay zone application (PLWOZ20250412) on Oct. 27 to demolish and reconstruct a single‑unit dwelling at 424 NW Columbia Street and granted a Class B front‑setback variance and a Class A side‑setback variance, with staff‑recommended findings and conditions.

The Bend Planning Commission voted on Oct. 27 to approve waterway overlay application PLWOZ20250412 to demolish and reconstruct and expand an existing single‑unit dwelling at 424 NW Columbia Street and to grant a Class B variance to reduce the required front/garage setback and a Class A variance to reduce the required eastern side setback, adopting the findings and conditions recommended by staff.

Associate planner Alexa Repco told commissioners the 6,573‑square‑foot parcel (Tax Lot 200 on Deschutes County map 171231 DB, Lot 14, Block A) is in the Residential Standard density zone and the waterway overlay/Deschutes River Corridor review subzone. Repco said the site itself is not within the mapped floodplain or riparian corridor and that staff notified relevant state agencies; she recommended conditions addressing…

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