REDMOND, OR -- The Redmond Area Parks and Recreation District (RAPRD) is considering asking voters to approve a bond, next spring, to expand the Cascade Swim Center. Redmond Schools Superintendent Mike McIntosh says his district is part of the equation, and there are a lot of unanswered questions, "That land is school district property and the pool is sitting on it. There’s a softball field and about a four to five-acre transportation lot, where we house our buses and bus barn, and so on. And so, the conversation is around how do we vacate that as a school district, and allow Parks and Rec to build a facility there?"

One proposal involves a land-swap that would relocate the bus barn to property owned by RAPRD, at SW 35th and Highway 126. "There is about 11 acres there – same size piece of land," says McIntosh, "It’s got several issues – one of them being the BPA [Bonneville Power Administration] has lines that go through, crisscross that piece of property, on part of it. Also, there’s access to the highway; we already know that’s a problem." That’s a problem, because SW 35th and Highway 126 is known for serious crashes. McIntosh acknowledges it's still very early in the conversation, but says it's one worth having, "There’s going to be a lot of people, from the city to the state to the county, all involved in how that would transpire. We also have - the piece that they’re owning is outside the city limits; it’s inside the UGB. There are a lot of good questions to be answered."