New Sisters industrial park planned on former Forest Service site
Planners say city had missed opportunities to create such facilities
SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A new industrial park is being proposed in Sisters.
The Sisters Planning Commission recently approved a master plan submitted by Jeriko Development Inc to create a 14-lot industrial park on a portion of the land that previously belonged to the U.S. Forest Service.
The proposed Three Peaks Industrial Park would be built on an undeveloped 16-acre plot along West Barclay Drive and North Pine Street.
Nicole Mardell, Sisters principal planner, said Wednesday a new industrial park would be beneficial to the Sisters community.
“So it’s really kind of adding additional opportunity for existing buildings or existing businesses to expand into a larger space, or bringing new businesses in town,” Mardell said.
The proposal for the light industrial park means a variety of businesses can use the lots.
“So you can have everything from a vet to an industrial amusement use like a trampoline park, to food manufacturing," Mardell said.
A new road will also be built to help connect the industrial park to the area's main roads.
The development would require the removal of about 110 of the trees on the parcel. Mardell said about a third of those trees would be replaced in other locations, and that preserving as many trees as possible is a goal.
“We want to see the design of the actual building, but they are pretty much designing around these trees, making sure that they can preserve as many as possible," she said. "It’s really important to our community to save those.”
The proposal still has several other approval steps before construction can begin on the industrial park.
As we strive to impact climate charge in Central Oregon, the county and cities should mandate that all development that remove trees should be required to replace that same amount. Thus they need to replace all 110 trees that they are taking down. They don’t need to put on the property, but somewhere in Sisters.
Shut up, already, about fake climate change. It’s BS and every whining Dem knows it.
Ask anyone spouting this climate change nonsense to explain how N Africa, one of the hottest and most arid places on Earth was under a massive ice cap twemty thousand years ago. How many fossil fuel vehicles were around then? Wind and ocean current patterns and solar radiation cause climates to change. Not people. Tons of stuff on youtube.
🙄 because it’s not like there are a bazillion pondos rifht next-door on the Deschutes National Forest.
Goodbye Oregon forests. Make room for urban growth, like the other city’s that struggle to survive due to not having enough natural resources. We just don’t learn.