The village also has a second golf course, Foxboro Golf Club, on the southeast side. That also includes more homes near The Legend at Bergamont Golf Course, which has a beautiful view of the surrounding landscape. He said the current planner assured him that Oregon is still “one of the most stable growing communities” with about 3,000 people added in the last 10 years and averaging about 40 single-family housing permits per year since 2016. The village of Oregon has gone through growth spurts before, but what’s happening now has prompted the village to start the search for a full-time planner, said village administrator Mike Gracz. Down the line there are also plans for a new middle school on the north side. This included $55 million for a high school addition and other school renovations, a recurring $1 million per year referendum for teacher compensation to attract and keep teachers, and a $45 million referendum for a new elementary school in Fitchburg that will likely open for the 2020-21 school year. With the understanding that the Oregon School District is expected to increase its enrollment by 50% within the next decade, the village has passed several referendums to accommodate that demand. Other projects include improving some downtown streets and parking lots and repairing the popular Rotary Bike Trail that was damaged by flooding. Plans are coming together for a new downtown library and civic campus, a splash pad next to the indoor pool, an outdoor sports park near the ice arena, and a business park and workforce housing on the east side near Hwy. There’s even more on the horizon for Oregon, especially since most of the village’s buildings are at capacity or in need of repair. “It’s an example of the impact a small village can have on other communities in the country,” Glysch said. The way the community came together for that project has become a beacon for several other efforts through the Oregon Community Resource Network (including a new food pantry and youth center) and as far away as Nebraska, where an even smaller town used a similar grassroots effort to save their water tower. Once the welcome center opened in 2015, he set his sights 100 feet higher in an effort to repaint and light the iconic water tower, listed on the National Historic Register, in 2017. Shortly after moving here around 2013 for the “small-town and historic feel,” Randy Glysch launched a fundraising campaign that was supported by nearly 200 businesses, organizations, and individuals. And downtown, several Main Street buildings have been refurbished while others have been cleared to make room for a high-demand apartment complex.īut perhaps the most memorable project has been the village’s new welcome center, located in the restored 1899 pump house beneath the “Tin Man” water tower on Janesville Street. New building projects have been popping up all over - from single-family homes on the south and west sides to the village’s first hotel in recent history on the east side. The Village of Oregon is over 175 years old, but the last few years have been particularly noteworthy for the nearly 10,000 residents in this community just 10 miles south of Madison.
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