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Depoe Bay accepts R3-funded planning help to study 2-acre 10th Street site; council schedules Dec. 3 kickoff
Summary
The Depoe Bay council agreed to accept no-cost Stage 1 planning assistance from the state-funded R3 team and Acxiom to evaluate a 2-acre 10th Street site for housing. Councilors pressed for charter and URA liability clarifications and set a Dec. 3 kickoff and a week-of-Dec. 8 site visit.
The Depoe Bay council voted to accept a no-cost Stage 1 planning assessment from the Oregon R3 program and its partners to study a two-acre site on 10th Street for potential housing.
Nate, of Acxiom Project Development Services, told the council the team’s role is “to put people in homes” and that the proposal is limited to a development-planning phase. “The intention is to do only the planning stage,” he said, adding that later stages — funding and construction — would be separate decisions and not an obligation on the city.
The offer comes through R3 (rural revitalization and recovery), a state-funded program that provides technical assistance in smaller communities. A representative for iSector/R3 (referred to in the transcript as Keith) said R3 and iSector helped narrow a submitted list of 10 candidate projects statewide and selected four for assistance, including Depoe Bay’s 10th Street site.…
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