In 2012 a family of 4 moved from Madison, Alabama to Bend, Oregon. They have visited Bend, Oregon every year for 10 years. They have watched the area grow and decided they wanted to move here. The family found a home in Awbrey Glen. The area was just the right size, the streets weren't crowded with houses, and the traffic was at a minimum. But after four years they started to second guess moving to the area. Northwest Crossing (a neighborhood in Bend) started crowding both sides of the roads and removed a lot of the natural nature. Bend is currently at a population of 87,104 and growing at a rate “2-3 percent per year”. (according to bendsource.com) Which doesn't sound like a lot, but for the citizens who have lived in the small town for many years, many wish the town would stay small.
Bend is a town in central Oregon with a growing population. From 2000-2010 Bend's population grew 50 percent. (according to bendsource.com) Since 2010 bend has grown its population just over 10,000 people. Bend is a beautiful town with many attractions which is probably why Bend is continuing to grow. Some of the attractions are, Mt. Bachelor, the Deschutes River, various lakes in a close proximity of Mt. Bachelor, and many nature trails around the town of Bend. In 2009 Bend proposed an expansion of its urban boundaries by 8,000 acres through the year 2028, but the state turned them down and told them to make better use of the land it already has. Currently it is supposed to grow its urban areas by 2,300 acres through 2028, but Bend still plans to build 5,000 additional homes.(according to bendsource.com) The first stakeholder that was interviewed is named Lee Hendricks, he has been a citizen in Bend for 4 years. Lee, like many other citizens, believes that Bend is growing too fast and needs to grow at a slower rate. Currently, Bend is building roughly 1,000 homes per year. Which is providing the incoming buyers homes. Lee said “a way to slow the growth of Bend is by making developers paying higher fees to the city, which should increase property prices, which should slow down the growth of Bend.” This could aggravate many developers, because it would most likely make it more difficult to sell their houses, and as Benjamin Franklin once said “time is money”. The second stakeholder that was interviewed prefers to be anonymous, but he has lived he for 1 year. He said “I loves the growth and hopes it continues to grow, so I can make a profit on my new home.” Many Bend citizens agree with what he is saying and hopes the area continues to grow so it can have the big city feel like Portland. We have far from becoming a big city and becoming the size of Portland (Portland's population is just under 600,000 and Bends population is just under 100,000) and at the rate were going it would a take a pretty long time. The second stakeholder has an idea on a way to possibly increase the growth at a quicker rate. “A way we could have Bend grow at a quicker rate is by building some more tall apartment buildings downtown …show more content…
There's too many opposing viewpoints to change the rate of growth of the population. This makes some people happy, but, others disappointed in a town they love, because it's growing too much and losing some of the personality that they liked when they chose to live in Bend. While others are saddened with loving the nature part of Bend, but not having the big city feel they want. There is no clear way to make everyone happy, but, if you could make parts of Bend feel like a big city, while make others have a smaller town, and keep other parts of the town the same. Then that might just be the best way to make everyone happy. If we could find a way to make different parts of Bend feel like a small town, big city, and a medium size town, the family that moved all the way from Madison, Alabama, might be happy, and be satisfied with their choice to move here four years
Bend is a town in central Oregon with a growing population. From 2000-2010 Bend's population grew 50 percent. (according to bendsource.com) Since 2010 bend has grown its population just over 10,000 people. Bend is a beautiful town with many attractions which is probably why Bend is continuing to grow. Some of the attractions are, Mt. Bachelor, the Deschutes River, various lakes in a close proximity of Mt. Bachelor, and many nature trails around the town of Bend. In 2009 Bend proposed an expansion of its urban boundaries by 8,000 acres through the year 2028, but the state turned them down and told them to make better use of the land it already has. Currently it is supposed to grow its urban areas by 2,300 acres through 2028, but Bend still plans to build 5,000 additional homes.(according to bendsource.com) The first stakeholder that was interviewed is named Lee Hendricks, he has been a citizen in Bend for 4 years. Lee, like many other citizens, believes that Bend is growing too fast and needs to grow at a slower rate. Currently, Bend is building roughly 1,000 homes per year. Which is providing the incoming buyers homes. Lee said “a way to slow the growth of Bend is by making developers paying higher fees to the city, which should increase property prices, which should slow down the growth of Bend.” This could aggravate many developers, because it would most likely make it more difficult to sell their houses, and as Benjamin Franklin once said “time is money”. The second stakeholder that was interviewed prefers to be anonymous, but he has lived he for 1 year. He said “I loves the growth and hopes it continues to grow, so I can make a profit on my new home.” Many Bend citizens agree with what he is saying and hopes the area continues to grow so it can have the big city feel like Portland. We have far from becoming a big city and becoming the size of Portland (Portland's population is just under 600,000 and Bends population is just under 100,000) and at the rate were going it would a take a pretty long time. The second stakeholder has an idea on a way to possibly increase the growth at a quicker rate. “A way we could have Bend grow at a quicker rate is by building some more tall apartment buildings downtown …show more content…
There's too many opposing viewpoints to change the rate of growth of the population. This makes some people happy, but, others disappointed in a town they love, because it's growing too much and losing some of the personality that they liked when they chose to live in Bend. While others are saddened with loving the nature part of Bend, but not having the big city feel they want. There is no clear way to make everyone happy, but, if you could make parts of Bend feel like a big city, while make others have a smaller town, and keep other parts of the town the same. Then that might just be the best way to make everyone happy. If we could find a way to make different parts of Bend feel like a small town, big city, and a medium size town, the family that moved all the way from Madison, Alabama, might be happy, and be satisfied with their choice to move here four years