Planning Commission - 2026-03-12
What happened
This was a Deschutes County Planning Commission educational work session on water resources; no land-use votes or entitlements were decided. The meeting featured presentations from Oregon Water Resources Department (Jeremy Giffen and Carolyn Suffett) on the basin's drought condit…
- Jurisdiction
- Deschutes County, OR
- Governing body
- Advisory (makes a recommendation)
- Date
- March 12, 2026
Meeting Summary
This was a Deschutes County Planning Commission educational work session on water resources; no land-use votes or entitlements were decided. The meeting featured presentations from Oregon Water Resources Department (Jeremy Giffen and Carolyn Suffett) on the basin's drought condit…
Development Activity (1)
Pilot Butte Canal Modernization Project (Pilot Butte Modernization Project)
Infrastructure
Market Signals (6)
Infrastructure
Central Oregon faces severe drought conditions with snowpack at ~32%…
Infrastructure
New groundwater is essentially unavailable in the basin without retiring…
Housing Demand
Roughly 4,000 acres of formerly irrigated land in Bend and…
Who Spoke (12)
On the record: the chair, 3 commissioners, 2 staff members, 3 witnesses, and a member of the public.
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