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Greetings from your Community Development Department!

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Sincerely,
Nick Lelack

As we begin the 2nd quarter of 2016 we are grateful that Central Oregon is a destination for retirees, as it gives us access to retired building inspectors, like Len Colliander, who are willing to work for us on an on-call basis. On-call inspectors give us a “depth of bench” to cover vacations, hunting seasons, medical situations… and keep up our reputation of completing 98% of all inspections on the same day if called in by 7:30 am, while continuing to operate with a lean crew.

Steve Wills has recently filled our Building Inspector III position from FY 2015. Steve has all four residential certifications and Commercial Structural and Commercial Mechanical. He is great addition to the team and has fit right in with his own inspection territory.

Rainer Doerge, one of our Building Inspector III’s, recently passed his Oregon Specialized Electrical Inspector’s Certification and can now conduct limited commercial electrical inspections. Rainer joins Inspectors Dan Swarthout and David Imel.

           
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Code Enforcement is in the process of hiring a limited duration code enforcement position to help investigate the increased volume of complaints that we have been experiencing over the last two years. We hope to have the new person starting in mid-May to provide some much needed capacity to code enforcement. Since the beginning of this year, code enforcement has had over 170 complaints submitted for investigation.
                                                        

The permit technicians have had a very busy construction season already this year. Based on the volume of phone calls and fee estimate requests we are receiving, this promises to continue to be a very busy building season. The La Pine satellite office is open on Tuesdays in the La Pine City Hall, and the Redmond satellite office is open on Thursdays in the Fairgrounds administration building for the convenience of our customers.

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Marijuana Advisory Committee (MAC): The MAC was a BOCC-appointed committee comprised of 13 Deschutes County residents. The MAC was charged with developing and recommending reasonable time, place, and manner land use regulations to mitigate the impacts of medical and recreational marijuana uses – especially production. The MAC met for seven meetings between February 10 and
April 7, 2016, for a total of 26 hours. The MAC recommendations were compiled in a final report and were presented to the BOCC on April 27. For more information
visit: www.deschutes.org/marijuana. Staff contact: Matt Martin, Matt.Martin@deschutes.org

Oregon Spotted Frog: On May 9, 2016 the U.S. and Wildlife Service designated critical habitat for the Oregon spotted frog under the federal Endangered Species Act. In Deschutes County, their habitat extends along the Upper Deschutes and Little Deschutes rivers, terminating in Bend at the Old Mill. Designation of critical habitat does not affect land ownership, establish a refuge or preserve.