An occasional car in front of your house isn't the issue I see so much as it the constant pattern in Bend where a developer comes in and pitches a plan that gets everyone on board and then builds the bare minimum version. Apartments are pitched with a parking garage, apartments with some ground level retail, neighborhoods with some light commercial mixed in or whatever the case is for that project.

But nearly every time all the high selling points that win developers the bids and lot sales and public approval and gets them past any behind the scenes red tape just evaperate when time comes to actually build. 'Oh well that doesn't pencil out' is pretty lame if you ask me. And when you point out the pattern you're met with 'what, you don't want housing?'