The City of Bend will host a Community Information Session on Thursday, July 22 on code amendments that will bring several changes to Bend neighborhoods.

House Bill (HB) 2001 was passed by the Oregon legislature in 2019 and requires that cities allow the development of “middle housing,” or duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, townhomes and cottage clusters wherever single-family detached homes are allowed.

The information session will be held online from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. It will include a presentation by City staff, followed by a Q&A period.

• To view the proposed amendments and for more information on Bend’s HB 2001 implementation, click here.
• To review a critique of the proposed amendments by several neighborhood association land use chairs, click here.
• To attend the online information session, click here to register.

The City has approved a Tentative Plan to subdivide 81.36 acres in the Discovery West Master Planned Development into 190 total lots consisting of:

• 137 detached standard density single-family residential lots
• 48 attached single-family lots (which includes 10 live-work townhomes, 17 standard townhomes, 9 cluster cottage lots, and 12 mews lots)
• 1 five-acre multi-family lot intended to accommodate up to 134 apartment units, and
• 4 limited commercial lots

The subdivision will be platted in 6 phases to be known as Discovery West Phases 4 through 9.  The subdivision will also create several tracts for park/open space and trail purposes, including an 18.69-acre conveyance to the Bend Parks & Recreation District as a westward extension of Discovery Park.  

An application for a waiver to public improvement standards for segments of Skyline Ranch Road, Ochoa Drive (for wider sidewalks minus the park strip), and Crosby Drive (cross section narrowed to eliminate parking adjacent to schools) was also approved.

To review the City's file on the project, click here. Scroll down for the phasing plan and renderings of the concept for the plaza in phase 4.