The city of Bend, Oregon is annexing 245 acres to provide space for the Discover West community, which will include 650 single-family homes, townhouses, cottages, and apartments or condominiums. The community is being developed by NWX 2 LLC, a partnership of Tennant Developments and Brooks Resources Corp. The Bend Bulletin reports:
Brooks Resources hopes to begin laying the groundwork by late July for the first three phases, which will consist of 126 lots for single-family homes, Ford said. Builders could start working as early as next spring and have the first homes completed by fall 2020, he said.
As with the The Tree Farm neighborhood to the west, wildfire resilience is part of the plan for Discovery West. Landscaping rules will prohibit combustible material within 5 feet of houses, and native vegetation such as bunch grass must be used within 30 feet, Ford said.
Required building materials include crawl space vents made of steel mesh with openings one-eighth inch or smaller, Ford said. The idea is to keep blowing embers from wildfires out of crawl spaces, which is what caused the loss of many homes in Paradise, California, he said. Also like The Tree Farm, Discovery West will be developed less densely on its western edge. The master plan calls for 50 1-acre lots.
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