CADA Site 13 March 23, 2000 Team Summaries

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Team #1

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) J P Streets/20th Street Freeway
Nice Mix/Diversity

2) N P Streets/10th 17th Streets
Residential
Lots of Open Space

3) R Street
Around Fox & Goose

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) Balance
Ownership/Rental
Affordable
Rental and For Sale

2) Fits Character of Neighborhood

3) Mix of Types

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

1) Hardware
2) Grocery
3) Laundromat
4) Drug Stores
5) Video Store
6) Restaurant
7) Gas Station

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Community Gardens
Accessible
Possibly integrated with and within schools/daycare of surrounding areas.
For all populations

2) Parks with Playgrounds

3) Less Developed Parks
Reflect natural landscaping
Fewer benches
More trees
More Wildlife
Botanical Gardens like Portland

Team #2

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) Capitol Park
Trees
Urban Life
Victorian Houses

2) Mid-town
Trees
Urban Life
People (diversity)

3) Boulevard Park
Trees
Urban Life
Housing Old style, historic Victorian

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) Mixed Use/Mixed Income
Small businesses

2) Single Family Owner Occupied

3) Live/Work
New or Rehab Existing

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

1) Outdoor cafes
2) Bookstores
3) Theaters/entertainment

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Active Recreation
2) More Community Gardens
3) Historical, cultural, water oriented, dog park, forested

Team #3

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) Fremont Park
2) Metro Square
3) Boulevard Park
Traits:
1) Open space and gardens
2) Proximity to Community Resources (Including work)
3) Low Noise Level
Low Traffic
- Public Transportation
- Affordability
Mixture of home and rentals

Exercise #2 Housing Needs
1) Redevelop/restore existing housing/sites
2) Affordable housing (apartments/single family homes)
3) Subsidized housing (government/leased)

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs
1) Grocery/market/deli carefully placed in business south side park area
2) Downtown gas station

3) Hardware store


Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Community gardens
Cultivated agriculture by neighborhood members

2) Combined park and sports recreation (including drinkable water)

3) Community parks and nature areas (preserve)

Team #4

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) Metro Square
2) Capitol Park Area Capitol Park R Street
3) Fremont Park
4) 21st Street ridge

Reasons:
Green lawns
Trees
Openness/open space
Parking
Architectural variety
Medium grocery/retail
Mixed use housing/retail
Walk to work
Light rail/transportation

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) Entry level homeownership
Townhomes/condos/detached

2) Some subsidies units

3) Accessible units (ADA compliant)

4) Upscale detached homes

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

1) Restaurants
2) Grocery store
3) Retail
4) Entertainment

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Parks
2) Mix open space recreation area
3) Pet park
4) Swimming pool
5) Open air market
6) Picnic grounds
7) Walking/jogging trail
8) Skate boarder park
9) Volleyball park
10) Basketball park
11) Jungle gym
12) Adult "outdoor" exercise area

Team #5

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) Boulevard Park
2) Capitol Park Neighborhood
3) Fremont Park

Features:
1) Open spaces and parkways
2) Broad streets
4) Walkable
5) Midtown shops
6) Close to lightrail
7) Architecture/Historic Preservation
8) Well-maintained housing
9) Restaurants-local
10) Trees

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) Density housing
2) Affordable housing
3) Pedestrian base housing
4) Mix of rental and owner occupancy
5) Housing with access to true mass transit
6) Cultural mix
7) Housing maintains historic integrity of city
8) Preserve wildlife

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) More community gardens
2) More family/children areas
3) Bike lanes
4) More water features
5) Traffic controls, i.e. car-free or pedestrian only areas.

Team # 6

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) 14th & O Streets
2) Midtown
3) Capitol Area
4) Co-Housing

Features
1) Trees Open space
2) Energy Ambiance/accessibility
3) Closeness/convenience Accessibility
4) Neighbors Ambiance
5) Stores/Restaurants Ambiance
6) Architectural/Variety Ambiance
7) Safety Ambiance
8) Schools Ambiance
9) Parks/Playgrounds Open space
10) Mixed use Ambiance
11) Garden Open space

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) Apartments (Rental)
Market rate
Affordable
Street retail
High Density
LOFTS Population:
Young professionals
Workers (central city)
Workers (outside)
Students
Seniors
Ethnic-Asian

2) Houses (For Sale)
Market rate
Affordable
Condo
Street retail

3) Live/Work i.e. "Pension K" Project
Artists
Home business
Street retail

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

1) Convenient shopping service
2) Food Service
3) Gas Station
4) Entertainment

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Public Space
Garden space
Playgrounds
Mall greenspace
Urban landscape

2) Private open space i.e. Metro Square

Team #7

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) Fremont Park trees
2) Boulevard Park
3) Marshall School area

Features:
Small businesses
Open space
Mixed use
Quiet
Diversity
Sense of community

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

New Homeowners
Not subsidized
Small Affordable

1) Single Family Housing
2) Mixed Use (Loft)
3) Co-op

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Community Gardens to provide
community programs for elderly and youth
2) Sport Parks
3) Recreation area for kids/picnics

Team #8

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) Capitol Park
2) Governor's Square-Condo
3) Boulevard Park

Features:
Beauty
Convenience-Location
Green spaces
Trees
Homeownership
Less downscale commercial enterprises
Nice gardens

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) Affordable and mixed use
2) Ownership/rental balance in each neighborhood/street
3) High density townhouses
4) Medium height (six (6) stories)

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

1) Hardware store
2) 24 hr./late night restaurants (local)
3) Full service market (50/50)
4) Barber shop

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Skate Parks
2) Public Pool
3) Community Garden

Team #9

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) Boulevard Park
2) Midtown
3) Mandella Garden
4) Bars and social activities
5) Parks
6) Restaurants
7) Mix of people of different economical levels
8) Variety of housing

Features:
Walkable/Bikeable
Quiet/Traffic reason
Close to downtown
Small Business Friendly
Public Transportation
Trees

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) Family homes (small high-density)
2) Loft housing
3) Street level retail with apartments above
4) Co-operative housing
5) Low Income housing

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs
(Nothing listed)

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Mandella Garden
2) Sporting fields

Team #10

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

1) South of Capitol to "Y" 5th to 19th Streets
We Like:
Quiet no traffic
Trees & parks
Garden
Not many drug or alcoholics
Affordable housing

2) South Midtown (19th to Alhambra, Capitol to T Street)
We Like:
Lack of flatness
Small (local) businesses
Diversity of Architecture
Library (McKinley)

3) North Midtown (Capitol to B Street)
We Like:
SAME AS ABOVE

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) More shelters for homeless
2) Real low-income housing (for families on minimum wage and/or SRO's (single room occupancy)
More landlord accountability
3) Co-operative housing
Metro Square (eg H and 28th Streets)
4) Green space nearby

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

1) More co-operative vs commercial services
Co-op food stores
Co-op bike shops rec centers
Co-op farmers markets social services etc.

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Community gardens across city
2) Bike lanes biking system for downtown
3) Native plants/botanical garden near schools

Team #11

Exercise #1 Desirable Neighborhood Features

Everywhere downtown easy to get around walking

1) Capitol Park
Because of trees
Well kept buildings
Mixed use

2) J Street Midtown (20th 28th Streets)
Shops
Stuff going on
Victorians
3) K Street walking/pedestrian friendly, cultural stuff
4) Sutter's Fort
A lot of services
Trees/shade

Areas we can do without
Downtown Mall
Old town No shade

Exercise #2 Housing Needs

1) 4-plexes Victorians and small
buildings >should know who your neighbors are
2) Renovate old structures
Fix what you have instead of
Developing existing open areas
3) Multi-use Living above retail
(Mixed) Would make life interesting otherwise area above retail would have nothing there.

What we don't want:
Big apartment buildings (Humongus)
Keep the families out there's no schools

Exercise #3 Central City Context Top Three Commercial Service Needs

1) Have everything
2) Restaurants
3) Housing

Exercise #4 Open Space Needs

1) Individual gardens
2) Bocce Ball court(s)
3) Dog park
4) Community Garden
5) Roof Gardens
6) One small lot per block for garden or park
7) Recycling fountains (with ducks or without)
8) Like William Land Park Flowers/Herb Garden

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Site 13 Planning Issues and Objectives Community Workshop

March 23, 2000

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