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City Council Minutes - 05/06/2009 Agenda Item No. Meeting of UNIVERSITY OF OREGON MID-POINT REVIEW: MAY 6,2009- 5:30-8:30 PM TVF&R COMMUNITY ROOM 12617 SW WALNUT STREET,TIGARD,OR ATTENDING: Tigard City Council: Mayor Dirksen, Council President Wilson, Councilor Buehner Tigard City Staff: Senior Planner Farrelly,Assistant Planner Daniels,Deputy Recorder Krager Tigard City Center Advisory Commission (CCAC) Members: Alexander Craghead, Carolyn Barkley, Elise Shearer,Linli Pao University of Oregon Professors: Hans Joachim Neis,Don Genasci,James Pettinari University of Oregon Students: Josh Kolberg,Kevin Montgomery,Jon Deleonardo, Drew Krauss, Casey Kent,Marc Becker, Sina Meier, and S. Postel Marianne Fitgerald, 10537 SW 64`h Drive,Portland, OR 97219 (SW Neighborhood Information Transportation Chair) Jim McLaughlin,4601 SW Vesta,Portland, OR 97219 (West Portland Park Neighborhood Assn.) Kay Durtschi,Metro Technical Advisory Committee (MTAQ Member GENERAL COMMENTS: • High capacity transit is not the goal; making the 99W corridor work is the goal. • High capacity transit is one way to make the corridor work • Want students to study backage roads • Tigard wants to limit driveways onto 99W. • Create new intersections to access backage roads/linked parking lots where none exist.We would have intersections where needed, some of which exist now and some would have to be added. This would provide access to backage roads or parking lots at the rear of corridor properties that are linked together so all properties/businesses can be accessed from the rear rather than through individual driveways between the intersections. • Consider moving bicycle/pedestrian paths off 99W onto backage roads parallel to 99W. • ODOT doesn't encourage access off of 99W; have students considered this difficulty? • Even with light rail,future car traffic will increase. • Many Tigard residents complain about 99W and try to avoid it;traffic is huge frustration. • ODOT is pushing for squared-off intersections on Barbur Blvd. • Put parking high on the list when planning for light rail. Sunset Transit Center structure is filled by 7:30 every day. • Tigard has a goal to provide more affordable housing. • Think about where to start and how this can evolve; Tigard has structural problems to fix. • Where should the light rail stations be? How can they be linked so the traffic problems don't worsen? • We may not want to crowd 40 units into one acre. TriMet has built light rail through less densely populated areas. We want to see something that is not maxed out on density. 1 • TriMet has a history of locating light rail along freeways. (easier politically or due to ROW'S) • What if light rail wasn't on 99W? Other ideas: 72 d Avenue, Dartmouth, or between Barbur and I-5 to Capitol Highway • Structured parking is ideal but too expensive. How can we better use surface parking and backage roads? • There could be transit stations in Downtown Tigard,Tigard Triangle and up towards PCC Sylvania via a flyover. (PCC is across from Tigard above I-5.) • What if light rail came down through Red Rock Creek and then over to Highway 217? • Be aware of property lines when proposing redevelopment BULL MOUNTAIN SEGMENT COMMENTS: • A Pioneer Cemetery is in the forested area on Little Bull Mountain • Ease of a 15-minute walk to transit depends on who is doing the walking (a 25-year old student or an elderly person with a load of groceries from Winco). • The 1,000 foot building idea is too massive and out of character for the area. • Have you researched where residents of Arbor Heights on Royalty Parkway work? Would they be likely to use high capacity transit? VIADUCT SEGMENT COMMENTS: • Hall Blvd/99W is going to be a gateway and is redesigned,including the addition of right- turn lanes. Were students informed of this? • Work is also planned for Greenburg and 99W intersection. • Hall Blvd/Greenburg/99W is constricted by three barriers creating an hourglass effect: Highway 217,railroad tracks and Fanno Creek. Encouraged students to look at the 50,000- foot view—see where the traffic problems are. • Structured parking may be too expensive. • What is solution to pedestrian experience? Give depth to facades,use buildings to enclose and control the street. Use character to bring people into the neighborhood. TIGARD TRIANGLE SEGMENT COMMENTS: • Regarding road across from Costco on Dartmouth: City required Babies R Us to put in a road there but it is too close to 99W to use. • Intrigued by 99W couplet idea; could split traffic into Metzger area. • The Tigard Triangle is as close to the center of the Metro area as downtown Portland is. • Mid-rise towers along I-5 would have great views towards the west and south and would be a nice place to live. 2 • Loved the idea of Red Rock Creek exposure • Nice to see gridding and connectivity • City can absorb a large amount of high density housing in the Triangle so existing single- family residential neighborhoods can be preserved. • Triangle is best place for tall buildings. It is buffered from single-family homes so there are no height restrictions. • Even in a 50-year plan we need to be practical; consider existing street patterns. We can't reconfigure all the streets at once. Integrate what is here. • Light rail should be adjacent to Tigard Triangle. • What does the market want? What would get built if there were no zoning restrictions? • Tigard feels opportunity for office space is along I-5; surprised students didn't focus on that. COMMENTS ON 99W MODEL: • Great citizen communication tool! • Could modify—showing before and after • Scale would make it difficult to show small details • What U of O did for Tigard's Downtown would also be a great deliverable EXISTING STREETS/ACCESS ROADS TO ADD- • Walnut Street becomes Walnut Place on east side of 99W to Tigard Methodist Church. A driveway connects Walnut Place to Frewing Street. • Tigard Street • Grant Street continues after intersecting with Walnut Street towards Charles F.Tigard Elementary where it makes a turn-around. The road is interrupted by school grounds and then continues at School St. on to intersect at Park Street. • Backage road extends from Park Street intersection at 99W and turns towards Tigard Marketplace Mall (H-Mart,Bi-Mar, Starbucks) • School Street off of 99W between Park Street and Walnut Street • Backage road from Bull Mountain Road to Gaarde, ending at Elmer's Pancake House • Backage road from Beef Bend Road to Bull Mountain Road, comes up behind gas station at Bull Mountain • 116`h comes off 99W directly across from Durham Road and continues in front of King City shopping center, past Royalty Parkway to Beef Bend Road • Backage road in front of King City fire station • Was frontage road across from former GM building (now a church) ending at Hwy 217 included? • WES line and station • Highlight creeks in color • Label each street 3 POTENTIAL ROADS: • Would love to see transportation nodes shown with potential light rail stops • Extension of Walnut Street behind Methodist Church on Walnut Place • Extension of McKenzie Street to connect with Ash Avenue • Extension of Ash Avenue to Burnham • City wants more access into Tigard Marketplace (H-Mart/Bi-Mart, near 99W/Park St.) • Consider removing Bike paths from 99W;put them on parallel backage roads and streets • Change viaduct to arched bridge with roads through tunnels; landscaped berms • If light rail goes down 99W, could elevator take passengers to street below viaduct for connections at commuter rail/bus station? Carol A. Krager Tigard Deputy City Recorder Date: June 9,2009 I/ADM/Caro1/C0UNCIL/FINAL U of O Mid-Point Review Comments 4