2006-387F-Minutes for Meeting December 20,2005 Recorded 4/7/2006December 20, 2005
TO: The Deschutes County Commission
RE: Thornburgh Resorts Application
I urge you to reject this application for the following reasons:
The rulingby the County Hearings Officer, especially those on future water needs for this
huge development. Atx.QA 4a,.b_ ~ Y'Q 1, ►
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v Increased traffic
Sewer needs and management
The chewing up of more natural land in the area
1. Fire and safety problems
Pollution from added vehicles, pesticides, insecticides
Aside from land-use problems, please address the social costs. As the proponents for
such destination resorts use a boost to the economy in their arguments, it seems fair that I
ask you to consider the other side. The myth that these developments will add jobs and
help the local economy should be transparent. We all know that labor is being imported,
both for construction work and service jobs. The reasons are that this labor is cheap, not
that labor is not locally available. With imported labor come many social problems and
costs that the permanent communities have to bear. Moreover, thew resort communities
are transient, even with the so-called permanent homes. They become small towns, but
they are phony towns. No one really has a stake in a true community, as do the residents
in the surrounding towns and cities, who will have to bear the brunt of extra and invisible
financial burdens, a loss of natural surroundings, and a threat to the water supply, which,,,
with global warming is not infinite.in this area.
Therefore I ask you to put, not the monied interests, but the ordinary citizens in
Deschutes County first in ruling against this resort. Our economy will not suffer if these
resorts are not developed.
Robb Reavill
1468 NW Kingston Ave.
Bend OR 97701
385-3226
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