Members of Ashland City Council debated Monday during its study session meeting how to make the need to meet new state requirements an opportunity for improving the city’s housing stock. The city is required to be in compliance with the state’s Climate Friendly Areas rules by June 30.
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In an open house with Portland-based developer Edlen & Co. and locally-based Arkitek and Outlier Construction held for school district employees in late February, the real estate investment firm heard a mix of praise, questions and concerns from those in attendance on the proposed project to build a 90-plus unit housing development in conjunction with nonprofit Sunstone Housing Collaborative, established by two members of the Ashland School Board, at the southeast corner of East Main Street and South Mountain Avenue.
An application for a single-family home planned for the slopes above Granite Street by Bryan and Stephanie DeBoer was neither approved nor denied Tuesday by the Ashland Planning Commission after a member of the public invoked an Oregon statute which requires the commission to keep the public record open for an additional period. It now closes March 18.
The Ashland Planning Commission will deliberate Tuesday on a number of requested exceptions to the city’s code that, if granted, could lead to the development of one large single-family home in an area long used for outdoor recreation.
In a 5-1 vote Tuesday, Ashland City Council served as the final say and the next step toward development for Kestral Park, a multi-family housing development slated for North Mountain Avenue. The 2-acre development would create mixed forms of housing, including studio spaces with less than 500 square feet of floor space, and larger apartments between Interstate 5 and Bear Creek and the west of North Mountain Avenue.
Attendees at Wednesday night’s Ashland Community Resource Fair could find information at various tables piled with printed information and staffed by representatives from such organizations as ACCESS, Opportunities for Housing, Resources & Assistance, the Sunstone Housing Collaborative, 211 Eviction Prevention Program, the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT).
Ashland area residents struggling with issues related to housing can find resources at an annual Community Resource Fair from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Ashland Public Library. Information will be available regarding housing availability, first-time homeowner resources, tenant rights and sourcing basic needs such as food.
After years of increased state funding to address homelessness and ever-growing numbers of homeless Oregonians, lawmakers and Gov. Tina Kotek are pushing for more state oversight and coordination for homeless shelters.
State lawmakers last week considered proposals to ban landlords from charging screening fees and charge landlords who take a holding deposit and then fail to actually rent the apartment, as well as a bill tenant advocates objected to that would allow landlords to charge monthly fees instead of a security deposit.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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