​Two winters ago, with record-breaking snow fall, the City identified locations where on-street parking contributed to increasingly narrow roads that became challenging for two-way traffic flow. During declared snow emergencies, the City will ask that those targeted streets be cleared of parked cars, to help crews plow from curb to curb and prevent unmanageable berms…

On Friday, Nov. 16, the state’s Land Conservation and Development Commission selected the City of Bend’s Affordable Housing Pilot Project proposal, as allowed under House Bill 4079. The pilot project allows the City to use a non-traditional Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) expansion process to increase the supply of affordable housing in Bend. A UGB expansion…

​There’s a new road closure on O.B. Riley Road between Hardy Road/Glen Vista and Cooley Road to accommodate the installation of infrastructure (water lines, stormwater and road improvements) associated with the new elementary school near O.B. Riley and Cooley.  The closure is expected to last all winter, with construction work happening over the winter and…