An ordinance establishing “impact fees” for installation of fossil-fueled appliances in new residential construction was unanimously approved by the Ashland City Council on Tuesday, but only after parties both in support of and opposed to the ordinance took turns denouncing misinformation circulating around the issue.
Last week’s extended stretch of snowy weather tested Ashland’s capacity to offer the unhoused shelter out of the storm. With just 14 sleeping spots available at the city’s shelter, other organizations opened additional spaces, and the city temporarily raised its capacity due to emergency conditions.
Two weeks after its first February meeting was canceled due to unsafe road conditions due to snow, the Ashland City Council takes up business Tuesday, Feb. 17, it had expected to handle on Feb. 4. Its Feb. 3 study session, however, which was also canceled, is still pending as Monday, Feb. 17, was Presidents Day.
Carrie Dahle: Here in Ashland, the real estate market remains strong, but affordability remains a central challenge…. While we haven’t seen a dramatic shift toward smaller homes yet, buyers are increasingly prioritizing homes that offer efficient layouts, updated features and lower maintenance costs.
The severe weather shelter at 2200 Ashland St. is restricted to a capacity of 28 — a number those involved with the shelter say is routinely insufficient to the level of need.
Oregon’s cities will push the state Legislature to give them more money for roads, water and sewers, more power to remove homeless camps and more flexibility to spend hotel tax revenue on basic services. City officials from around Oregon laid out those goals during their biannual City Day at the Capitol earlier this week.
Two advocacy groups and five homeless people sued Grants Pass on Thursday in a bid to force the Southern Oregon city to change its restrictions on homeless camping that put people with disabilities and others in peril.
The Oregon state courts system has sealed about 47,000 evictions from Oregonians’ records, the Oregon Judicial Department said. The department sealed the residential evictions from people’s records by mid-December to comply with House Bill 2001, a 2023 law the Legislature passed.
As part of an ongoing commitment to addressing homelessness in Jackson County, individuals are invited to volunteer for the annual “Point in Time” (PIT) Count, which will take place throughout the last week of January, beginning Monday, Jan. 27.
Following a nearly two-year-long campaign led in part by Ashland High School students, the Ashland City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the first reading of an ordinance imposing fees to discourage installation of gas appliances in new residential construction.
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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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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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