BEND, OR -- Bend City Council has approved changes to a Master Plan for the Wildflower development on the east side.
“That is the area off of 15th, to the east of 15th, when you get to where you can’t really go by right now because we’re building that roundabout at Wilson and 15th. But it’s a big undeveloped area; a place we can do infill in town and it’s really sat for many, many years. It’s got some rock piles, it’s got some slopes, it’s a difficult parcel to develop. So, it’s exciting to see someone come in with a plan for over 500 units of housing,” Mayor Melanie Kebler says amending the original 2015 plan increases the housing inventory, “Townhomes, cottages, apartments, and then also some commercial on the corner that they’re planning there. The original Master Plan had a large area of commercial that the new developer is shrinking down a bit, just saying it’s not really viable to build a large commercial area there and they’d like to build housing on that land instead.”
The mayor tells KBND News the project should start relatively soon, “Hopefully within a year they’re breaking ground on the first part of the housing development. We really need housing and we especially need this type of housing in Bend. It’s going to be rental, it’s going to be all these kinds of smaller homes, so people wanted us to move forward instead of delaying it, and that’s what we did.”
The 15th and Wilson roundabout is expected to open next month.
