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07/06/1987 - Packet Agenda July 6° 1987 1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Review and Discussion [Jf Press Releases - - Don Pinkerton 4. Review and Discussion Of Report To Council - - JoLynn Ash 5. Discussion Of Greenway Article 6. Discussion Of Concept Of Joint Subcommittee Re: Transportation 7. Staff Report On Marketing Consultant - - Duane Roberts 8. Discussion Re: Marketing Materials And Use Of Consultant 9. Staff Report On Zoning - - Liz Newton 10. Identification Of Geographical, Topographical, Physical and Natural Limitations and Opportunities. (See Handout ) 11. Discussion Of Tigard Business Leaders Luncheon. - 12. Discussion Of Fano Creek Area - - Mike Marr 13. Other Business 14. Adjournment ' CITY,�'O-ENTER PLAN TASK FORCE MINUTES Meeting of April 30, 1987 - Town Hall Conference Room Members Present: Stuart Cohen, Don Pinkerton, Jolyn Ash, Chris Defferding, Pam Juarez, Mike Mara Others Present: Mayor Tom Brian, Councilor Valerie Johnson, Liz Newton, Duane Roberts, Bill Monahan, Tom Hill . Mayor Brian called the initial meeting of the Task Force to order and explained how the committee came about and its purpose. He then conducted a bus tour of the city highlighting areas of economic concern, council issues, and the downtown area. Bill introduced various maps prepared by staff for the downtown area: zoning, land use, capital projects, areas of prime concern. Copies of a recent aerial photo of the area as well as materials from a recent conference on revitalizing Main Street were distributed. Bill explained the staff commitment available to the Task Force from the Planning Division budget. Valerie outlined the task before the committee — to evaluate why and how the downtown should be saved. She explained a number of concepts gained at the Main Street conference which should be valuable as the group determines a direction for the city center plan. Valerie also explained the city organizational chart and where the Task Force is located therein. The Task Force is advisory to the Council with support from staff as designated by the Council. Other city committees are also available to provide input from their areas of expertise. The Task Force chose the third Thursday of each month as the regular meeting date. The next session will be held on Thursday, May 21, at 7 PM. Valerie also noted that Task Force members are encouraged to attend the upcoming boardsmanship training session. WAM:cn/1490W mill Ph- �M�Nyl!�M/� toofar. Ifeverti-body's mad, it must have , done something right. The Commission found, to no one's /�Q surprise, that Americans do love the out �� °� • �� 1/G(�nt dornre t. Walking for pleasuis the top- f rated outdoor activity, with 84 percent ^� of the population above the age of 12 Open To and notes saving they walk for fun at least some- times, and fitlb half saving they walk Imagination often or ven often. Picnicking and swim- ming outdoors tied at 76 percent, fish- Open a Trifles catalogue and what ing came in just bevond 50 percent,with will you discover. Page after page of bicycling at 46 and camping at 45. imagination, frilled with delightfully T-him-fixe percent of those sampled said different gifts for every taste and fancy. For the most imaginative Christmas the% went outdoors to watch birds or present you've ever given, or kept for study nature, while 22 percent said they yourself, send for our big holiday issue went canoeing, kayaking or rafting. (Ca- and a full year of Trifles catalogues. nocing may be the ftstcst growing out- Only $2. A network of green corridor-, threadi?W (tool sport in America, Up more than its way throz4gh city and countyN,%idtr, 501) percent since 1960.) ^^' Mare and more of this recreation is is Zrr(rZiosPd by a liPs:dPrtlial rommicsimt ,M,aI SS in the fin-rn of shoe taps- lest than a (fay. 'I he drive across the counn7 or the 7, Green space ranks up there with base- two-week vacation at one scenic spot is a ® ball and apple pie: right-thinking peo- fading memory. One Commission graph TRIFLESple evervwhere recognise them as indis- shows that the percentage• of outdoor- putably virtuous, manifestations of the recreation trips that take six hour or P.O. Box 620050, Dept. TR012 "good" that by our ver natures we seek. less total time awav fromhome• has Dallas, Texas Dept. TR The prewar generatuo drove out into grown from 25 percent in 1960 to almost the country on Sundays. The postwar 55 percent in 1985.The number of trips generation moved to the suburbs to live taking five or more days has dropped on plots of green space all their own, from Olt percent to 10 percent. Another DESIGNED Today we crowd what green space we chart shows that overnight trips of 100 AND SUPERBLY can find,whether we cam" a pack across miles of less almost quadrupled from the backcountn or walk the dog in a 1972 to 1982, while trips of 500 miles of HANDCRAFTED neighborhood park Cities are where the more dropped by more than 92 percent. FOR THE excitement is, but most Americans find People want their green Close to home. DISCRIMINATING they crave a little green. Tir nae, the Commission's most exciting INDIVIDUALIST when they head for the green these recommendation is its most general one: days, the (Kids are it will be crowded. +c * On a summer weekend, parking lots.will be full and late arrivals will he parked everywhere along the highway, in the bushes, perched Precariously on steep banks. Picnic grills are all long appro- priated, playing fields packed. Trails are 1 busy, voices coming from even dire(- tion. Green it may be, where not tram- pled to dirt, but hardly tranquil. Now,at a time when budgets on every {j level of government are being cut, we To receive our portfolio send 510 have the report of the President's Com- to Woodhouse Post and Beam. Inc. mission on Americans Outdoors. The P.O. Box 64. Dept. SM, Commission spent two years gathering Mansfield. Pennsylvania 16933 reports and surveys, listening to the ex- 717-549-6232 pelts, holding public hearings around OUTSIDE PA CALL TOLL FREE I-8x-227-4311 the country, stud%ing case histories. MASTERCARD AND VISA ACCEPTED Originally the Commission was boycot- ted by mam- conservation and environ- mental groups who feared it would not go far enough. Later it was sued by busi- Rainy-day cyclist heads up it trail in mess groups,who contended it had gone Virginia that once was it railroad line. POST & BEAM HOMES 26 that communities across the nation estab- not only to establish refuges where jag- we decide to forgo blanketing, we will lish more greenways. These are defined uars and orchids can continue to exist, have a greenway. as"corridors of'private and public recre- but whenever possible to keep uncut The Commission has a plan to help ation lands and waters, to provide peo- corridors between them so that popula- any community that wants greenways. ple with access to open spaces close to tions can mix and young can disperse, The Land and Water Conservation where they live, and to link together the with the result to be greater than the Fund, which draws its funds front the I rural and urban spaces in the American sum of the two parts. (One such plan in sale of oil and gas leases on the Conti- landscape." The Commission asks us to Costa Rica was described in the duly nental Shelf(on the grounds that min- j imagine being able to walk out our front 1986 Phen(mena.) If we can do it firr ani- eral wealth there belong- to everyone), door and within minutes set ofl on a mals, why not for peoples has enabled states and localities to buy continuous network of corridors that The green will appear anvwhere we 2.8 million acres of recreation land and could someday reach across the entire allow- it. All the concrete and asphalt we waters, and the federal government to United States. have laid down is just it thin sheet over add 2.9 million acres to its national The greenways are "fingers of'green" the potential life of the Earth itself. parks, forests, wildernesses, recreation that come in many different forms: Sometimes I sit on a bench in the mid- areas and refuges. The Fund expires in "biking and hiking trails along aban- (lie of the city and think of the streets, 19139; the Commission wants it new, ded- doned rail lines;boating and fishing sites sidewalks and parking lots as so much icated trust fund to provide at least $1 on ribbons of bright water restored from black plastic mulch laic( down over a billion it year for the same purposes. neglect; vacant lots for 'just messing Karden bed; the buildings are the big Most of all. however, the Commission around' after school . . . ; belts of grass- rocks there to hold it all down. But just wants us to act. The report continually lands, shrubs, and forests surrounding as with real plastic, living green things calls on Americans to light a "prairie and threading their way through cities will find the tiniest cracks in sidewalk or fire"of community action.The best ideas and countrysides like a giant circulatory street and grow toward the sun. I Zook may not even haat, been thought of yet. systent." Greenways would be corridors for the green on my noontime wander- So, the Commission advises, "develop a to connect new and existing parks, for- ings: the thicket of black locust and ai- dream. Define it vision. Look forward ests and refuges. lanthus (tree of heaven) springing up for twenty years, or fitty, and decide This sounds like plans I've been read- along it concrete wall. tufts of grass that what yoll want the future. . .to bc."A lot ing about for nature reserves in Cental have found it home in the seams of a of people have a pretts good idea. and South America. The idea now is black marble fountain. Any place where john 1' I1 ilk jr. `1 y ,. The best o ` 1 . A ' &nnida .. at Its tut „ newest resod Surrounding you with all the 7, 4' enchantment of Bermuda. 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This list is intended as a partial listing and committee members are encouragedlibring additional limitations and opporutnities that they have identified. PRESS RELEASE / \~ ' CITY CENTER TASK FORCE SETS GOALS By City of Tigard resolution No. 80-134, the City Center Plan 'Task Force in charged with the responsibility for, a City Center Plan, comprehensive in nature, and including consideration of economics, public facilities, transportation, and marketing. The vision for pursuit is a "Downtown Business District" with identity, vibrancy, and progressiveness; compatibility with surrounding residential and business environments; and an attractiveness to consumers of products and services, as well an to those who prnvide it. By—products of this vision shall be economic vitality and community pride. To accomplish this goal, the Tank Force broke down the planning into three phases : evaluation of the area, an action plan, and a marketing program. The evaluation plan, which should be completed by February of 1080, includes the following: citizen and business involvement and input; an inventory and condition of' existing businesses, buildings, public facilities, residential and vacant properties; limitations and opportunities to the revitalization of the area; economic potential of the market; and transportation requirements to enhance the viability of the downtown business district. DR: kr/1032W PRESS RELEASE CITY CENTER TASK FORCE DEFINES STUDY AREA The City Center Plan Task Force appointed by the Tigard City Council, has begun work to develop a Comprehensive Plan for the improvement of downtown Tigard . The first order of business at the June 24th meeting was to define the geographic boundaries of the study area. The boundaries are Pacific Highway on the west; S.W. McKenzie and S.W. Mill on the south, including the Tigard Senior Center and Civic Center; and S.W. Hall on the north. The total area encompasses 188 acres . DR:kr/1032W CENTRAL CITY PLANNING AREA 99 W s� •r• Tk. sk• sr t , t C�9 C Pyr S� Sr J 0 by a� +F yrF sr J / J 2 y. S w TIGARD CIVIC CENTER TIGARD ENIOR ENTER T AGGREGATE TAg LCT AREA..........144.3 ACRES TRANSPORTATION RIGHT OF WAY..... 44.1 TOTAL AREA......................188.4 1'=400'