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Redmond OKs urban expansion By Patrick Cliff and Devo’n Williams The Bulletin
REDMOND — The Redmond City Council approved a major expansion of the city’s Downtown Urban Renewal District Tuesday. With the 7-0 vote, the district increases in size from 599 acres to 700 acres and lasts until 2031. The expansion is projected to spur more than $400 million in private investment on projects ranging from a movie theater to a new convention center. The district has already funded major projects in Redmond, including Centennial Park and extensive improvements along Fifth and Sixth streets. Under the new version of the district, the city could help fund projects that include converting Evergreen School into city hall and beautifying the Redmond reroute. Tuesday’s meeting was the final step in a process that has lasted about two years. “The taxpayer understood this could be transformative for Redmond,” said Heather Richards, the principal economic planner for Redmond. “This is not a build-it-and-they-will-come type plan. We’re focusing on private investments.” Urban renewal districts collect a portion of property taxes, reserving that revenue for investments inside a boundary. In the next 20 years, the city projects the district will collect more than $90 million. The district would use that money to help defray infrastructure costs. In doing so, the district should attract more than $400 million in private investment. City leaders have long argued that the district’s expansion was a vital step toward improving downtown. The plan envisions more housing in the city’s core and a medical office district near St. Charles Redmond. City staffers have heavily touted the lack of a tax rate increase. Susan Nobles, a Redmond resident at the meeting, said she has seen public and private partnerships work. “It meshes well.” Patrick Cliff can be reached at 541-633-2161 or at pcliff@bend bulletin.com. Devo’n Williams can be reached at 541-617-7818 or at dwilliams@bendbulletin.com.
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Indictment in fatal hit and run By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
A grand jury has indicted a Bend man on charges stemming from a fatal hit and run in late January, the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Bret Lee Biedscheid, 38, was indicted Tuesday on two charges — criminally negligent homicide and failure to per-
form the duties of a driver when a person is killed — in connection with the accident that killed Anthony “Tony” Martin, of Bend, on Jan. 26. Both charges are felonies, and are punishable by a maximum term of 10 years in prison and five years in prison, respectively. Biedscheid is scheduled to be arraigned in Deschutes County District Court on Thursday morning.
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across Third Street near Revere Avenue about 11 p.m. Jan. 26 when he was struck by a southbound vehicle. The vehicle did not stop. Martin died of his injuries at the scene. Bend Police were contacted a few days later by Portland defense attorney Stephen Houze, representing Biedscheid and his wife, Ellyn Biedscheid. See Hit and run / A4
NATO countries split on tactics in Libya conflict By Steven Lee Myers and Eric Schmitt New York Times News Service
By Kate Ramsayer The Bulletin
Options for a new sno-park along the Cascade Lakes Highway include 110 additional parking spaces, more than seven miles of dog-friendly ski trails, moving the Dutchman Flat snow play area and creating short new trails to tie into existing snowmobile and crosscountry ski routes. The different alternatives for the Kapka Sno-park, proposed for the junction of the Cascade Lakes Highway and the Sunriver cutoff, are designed to relieve pressure on the often-overflowing Dutchman Sno-park and provide another place where people can ski with dogs off-leash. “It’s a place where we think we can serve both the motorized and nonmotorized recreation in the area,” said Amy Tinderholt, recreation team leader for the Bend-Fort Inside Rock Ranger • How to make District. comments and see The U.S. Forthe environmental est Service has impact statement, released its Page A6 draft environmental impact statement on the Kapka Butte sno-park plan, including several different alternatives, and will be taking comments on it for 45 days beginning Friday. For years, the Forest Service has been debating what to do about the overcrowding at Dutchman Flat Sno-park, across from Mt. Bachelor. A 1996 proposal to expand Dutchman was never completed. In 2004, the agency held a threeday “Dutchman summit” to discuss what to do about the popular, high-elevation sno-park, which has room for only about 26 vehicles and is consistently filled during weekends and holidays. One of the ideas out of the summit was to build a new sno-park at the Sunriver cutoff. “The Forest Service has spent a lot of time talking with winter users about needs in the area, and the Cascade Lakes Highway is the area with the greatest amount of winter recreation,” Tinderholt said. “One of the things that there was a need for is additional winter parking.” In early 2009, the
USFS sno-park options The Forest Service has released its draft environmental impact statement for a new sno-park at Kapka Butte. Options include new trails for skiing with dogs, connector trails to ski and snowmobile routes, and in two alternatives, moving the Dutchman Flat Snow Play Area. Existing snowmobile trails To Mt. Bachelor
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WASHINGTON — With the United States limiting itself to a supporting role in the conflict in Libya, fissures opened among NATO allies Tuesday over the scope and intensity of attacks against the forces of Moammar Gadhafi, officials here and in Europe said. On the eve of two important meetings this week, France and Britain openly called on the alliance and its partners to intensify airstrikes on Libyan government troops to protect civilians, prompting an unusual public retort from NATO’s command that it was carrying out the military operation under the terms of the United Nations Security Council resolution that authorized force. “As long as regime forces continue attacking their own people, we will intervene to protect them,” Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard of Canada, the NATO operational commander, said in Naples, Italy. “NATO’s resolve is in its mandate to protect the civilian population.” Arriving for talks in Luxembourg with other European leaders, the British foreign minister, William Hague, said that the allies had to “maintain and intensify” the military effort, noting that Britain had already deployed extra ground attack planes. See Libya / A4
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agency released a plan for a new Kapka Butte sno-park, featuring 70 parking spots for trucks and snowmobile trailers, as well as 40 spots for vehicles without trailers. The sno-park would also have new trails, with a network of groomed, dog-friendly trail loops,
a snowshoe trail up Kapka Butte, a short new trail from the parking lot to snowmobile trails that lead to the Dutchman Flat system and a short connector to the ski and snowmobile trails at the Vista Butte Sno-park. See Sno-parks / A6
Chocolate milk stirs controversy in public schools By Kevin Sieff The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — It was once a staple of public school cafeterias that blended the indulgent and the nutritious, satisfying parents and children both. But chocolate milk is uncontroversial no more. Dozens of districts have demanded reformulations. Others have banned it outright. At the center of these battles are complex public health calculations: Is it better to remove sugary chocolate flavorings at the risk that many students will skip milk altogether, missing out on crucial calcium and Vitamin D? Or should schools instead make tweaks — less fat, different sweeteners, fewer calories — that might salvage the benefits while minimizing the downside? However schools answer these questions, protest inevitably follows. When Fairfax County, Va., and District of Columbia schools banned chocolate milk last year from elementary lunch lines, officials heard not just from parents and students. They also received letters and petitions from a slew of nutritionists and influential special interest groups. See Milk / A4
At Fort Sumter, a somber 150th anniversary of Civil War By Bruce Smith
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The District Attorney’s Office had previously identified Biedscheid as a “person of interest” in the case, but has not referred to him as a suspect. Biedscheid, who is director of accounting at Les Schwab Tire Centers, has not been arrested. A message left on Biedscheid’s home phone Tuesday evening was not returned. Martin, 48, was walking his bicycle
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Booming cannons, plaintive period music and hushed crowds ushered in the 150th anniversary of America’s bloodiest war on Tuesday, a commemoration that continues to underscore a racial divide that had plagued the nation since before the Civil War.
Ciara Lee, 25, watches Fort Sumter during Charleston’s commemoration on Tuesday. C. Aluka Berry / McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The events marked the 150th anniversary of the Confederate bombardment of Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, an engagement that plunged the nation into four years of war at a cost of more than 600,000 lives. Several hundred people gathered on Charleston’s Battery in the pre-dawn darkness, much as Charleston residents gathered 150 years ago to watch the bombardment on April 12, 1861. About 4 a.m., a single beam of light reached skyward from Fort Sumter. About a half hour later, about the time the first shots were fired, a second
beam glowed, signifying a nation torn in two. Nearby, a brass ensemble played a concert entitled “When Jesus Wept” as hundreds listened. Fifty years ago during the centennial of the Civil War, there was a celebratory mood. But on Tuesday, the 150th anniversary events were muted. Even the applause seemed subdued. At the White House, President Barack Obama captured the somber mood in a proclamation that the date would be the first day of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. See Civil War / A6