09/11/2013 - Minutes City Center Advisory Commission
Meeting Minutes
Date of Meeting: Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Location: Red Rock Creek Conference Room
Called to order by: Chair Elise Shearer
Time Started: 6:31 pm
Time Ended: 8:35pm
Commissioners Present: Elise Shearer Chair),Thomas Murphy,Paul Miller, Laura Fisher
Commissioners Absent: Philip Thornburg (Vice Chair) Deanie Bush, Sherrie Devaney,
Linli Pao, Carine Arendes, Hemendra Mathur (Alternate)
Others Present: Councilor Marland Henderson, Council Liaison to the CCAC;Planning
Commissioner Richard Shavey and local realtor Neal Brown,Debi Mollahan and Diana
Weston from the Tigard Chamber of Commerce.
Staff Present: Downtown Redevelopment Project Manager Sean Farrelly, Community
Development Director Kenny Asher and Community Planning Senior Administrative
Specialist Chris Wiley.
AGENDA ITEM #1:Welcome and Roll Call
Elise opened the meeting and Chris recorded the roll call.
AGENDA ITEM #2: Review/ Approve M Minutes
The four members present approved the August 14,2013 CCAC Minutes. Chris will take an
electronic vote from the other members who were present at the August meeting to achieve
a majority approval.
AGENDA ITEM #3: Non-Agenda Items / Public Comment
A. Sean - there is an addition to the upcoming meetings list that's published at the
bottom of the CCAC meeting agenda. There will be a City Council Town Hall at
6:30 p.m.,Tuesday, October 29 that will include some discussion on downtown
development. Councilor Henderson said the mayor is looking for feedback from the
community. Sean will send out more meeting information to the commission
members as it becomes available.
B. Sean - this year CCAC will be recruiting for three voting-member openings and two
alternate positions. Elise is completing her second term the end of this year. Linli is
entering her third year of law school so she might not re-apply. Phil Thornburg's
term ends this year as well. If you know anyone who may be interested in serving,
the applications are online. There will be more information about the openings in
the October Cityscape newsletter.
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AGENDA ITEM #4: Explore Downtown Tigard Street Fair Report
Deport on street fair and other downtown events—Debi Mollahan, Tigard Chamber of Commerce
(Attachment 1 to these minutes)
Debi Mollahan and Diana Weston gave an after-action report on the street fair. Overall it
was very successful and well received. They are looking forward to greater participation next
year as the public becomes more aware of this as an annual recurring event, and more
activities and vendors are added.
AGENDA ITEM #5: City Charter Ballot Measure
Review issues related to November 51h city Ballot Measure 34-207—Elise Shearer and Kenny Asher
Kenny thanked the committee members for their support for the measure and for
their input which helped the city craft a better explanatory statement. Kenny
encouraged members to channel their energies through the different organizations
they participate in throughout the city, to get the word out to voters about why the
passage of this measure is necessary to move urban renewal development forward.
Laura Fisher will get information to the CCAC members about the best timing to get
letters of support for the ballot measure to local publications. The election is
November 5. Ballots start going out 18 days prior, on Friday, October 18. Tom
Murphy said the message committee members should convey is that this vote is to
"let urban renewal work;" let it work as it was intended to be.
AGENDA ITEM #6: Tigard Brownfields Partnership Workshops (Attachment 2)
Discuss workshop plans and how CCAC wants to participate in October 9th meeting—Elise and Sean
CCAC will be sponsoring the workshop on Brownfields on October 9 in lieu of the
regularly scheduled CCAC monthly meeting. The State of Oregon has approved a
$25,000 grant which Tigard is using to build an inventory of downtown properties
that may qualify as Brownfields grant recipients. Specific guidelines will be released
in October with a submission date probably in December. The city will submit grant
applications. The first Brownfields public workshop is at the library on Wednesday,
October 9 at 6:30 p.m. It will be panel style. We want to encourage property and
business owners from downtown to attend. The first workshop will have a broader
audience. The second workshop will get into more specifics as to the process and
will be of interest to property owners who are considering participating in the grant
program. The grant will fund up to three Phase 1 environmental site assessments.
AGENDA ITEM #7: FY 15-19 Capital Improvement Plan Suggestions
Discuss and recommend potential new Downtown pryects. All Downtown CIP projects will be
compiled and brought to CCAC for ranking in November—Sean (Attachment 3)
Sean will come to the CCAC in November with the list of potential Downtown projects.
The CCAC members will rank them. The CIP committee will look at all the
recommendations that come in from citizens at large, city boards or committees, staff and
the council along with available funding. They'll use that information to rank projects in the
CIP. Then it will go to Council for review. Sean gave the committee members the ratings
from last year. He highlighted the downtown related projects and projects that are unfunded.
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If members have any other suggestions to add to the CIP listing now is the right time to
submit those. CCAC needs to have their rankings in by the end of November. CCAC can
work on it at their November meeting.
AGENDA ITEM #8: 3rd Quarter CCAC Goals Update—Sean Attachment 4
Tigard Street Trail is a go. The remeander is almost certainly going to be in the CIP.
CWS wants to get the project done. The city is obligated to spend money on the Fanno
Creek Trail so this is the time to do the project. Since it was just approved, the
committee added the Commercial Street sidewalk to the 4th quarter update. The city did
get the CET grant from Metro for the Public Works feasibility study.
AGENDA ITEM #9: Liaison Reports
Facade Improvement— Carquest is the most recent applicant.
Art Subcommittee— artist Brian Borello is working on some ideas. He will bring
them to the art subcommittee within two to four weeks.
PRAB—Elise. Fanno Creek House is now complete. The city council will be there
tomorrow to do their goal setting. Steve Martin said they're already talking about how
they are going to set up rental and community uses.
There's $400,000 left for land acquisition for parks not including money set aside for
downtown park area.
TTAC —Elise. TTAC is beginning work on their recommendations for capital
improvement projects and prepping for their upcoming joint meeting with Council.
They discussed recent traffic delays and remedies the city initiated relative to the
development going on near the intersections at Dartmouth and 72nd and Hunziker
and 72nd The 99/Gaarde/McDonald intersection will be delayed from 2014 to 2015.
Cost for right-of-way in that area increases more than anticipated so other
approaches have to be looked at. The Walnut and 135th Street intersection signal has
been postponed for one year. That is being financed with MSTIP funds from
Washington County. New sidewalk next to Tigard High School going into Cook
Park is under construction right now. Fanno Creek Trail, Main St to Grant Street,
should be finished by the end of September.
AGENDA ITEM #10: Adjourn. The meeting adjourned at 8:35 p.m.
C.L. Wiley, CCAC Recording Secretary
ATTEST:
Elise Shearer, Chair
Recording Secretary's Note:To requests copies of the attachments to these minutes,please email.•christinen,@tigard-orgov
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