NOVEMBER 13, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3
A fl ood of history here...
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Keizer Points of Interest Committee members Bev Ecklund (left) and Jill Bonney-Hill look
over a design for a sign denoting historical local fl oods at a recent meeting.
Excitement at Safeway
Submitted
There was some excitement
at Safeway Nov. 7 as about
10 law enforcement vehicles
stopped a car in the Keizer
Safeway parking lot. Deputy
Chief Jeff Kuhns with the
Keizer Police Department
said the person being sought
wasn’t in the vehicle.
looking back
in the KT
5 YEARS AGO
EPA will lead
Keizer cleanup
Cleanup on a chemically con-
taminated site at the southwest
corner of Manbrin Drive and
Cherry Avenue begins next
week, supervised by the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency.
10 YEARS AGO
Pair baffl ed by killing
of beloved dogs
Julia Ackerson and William
Russell returned home with
their two children to fi nd
their dogs hanged from the
framework of their back porch
enclosure.
local
weather
public
hearings
Keizer City Council will
hold a hearing on Monday,
Nov. 16 to consider proposed
text amendments to sections
2.108, 2.109, 2.110, 2.112,
2.113, 2.114, 2.115, 2.119 and
2.433 of the Keizer Develop-
ment Code and to add a defi -
nition of marijuana retailer.
The hearing takes place at 7
p.m. in council chambers at
Keizer Civic Center.
15 YEARS AGO
Veterans paint,
draw experiences
Keizer Art Association pre-
sented a showing of artwork
by area veterans. The veterans
were able to show off their
creative sides through pencil
drawings, paintings and pic-
tures of Vietnam and other
world war scenes.
20 YEARS AGO
Keizer voters approve
bond for new station
Voters approved a $2.5 million
bond to build a new station for
Keizer Fire District.
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Amendments to KDC approved
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Simpler math doesn’t auto-
matically mean simple.
Keizer City Councilors
unanimously approved text
amendments to the Keizer
Development Code regarding
parking at their Nov. 2 meet-
ing.
One change was in how
many bicycle parking spaces
have to be provided in front of
a business. In the wording ap-
proved in May 1998, the KDC
had a full page listing that one
bicycle space be required per
a particular measurement. For
example, for a retail store it
was one space per 10 required
vehicle parking spots. For a
hotel, the standard was one
space per 40 guest rooms.
“It was a long table,” said
Nate Brown, director of
Community
Development
for Keizer. “We are suggest-
ing you change it to 5 percent.
One space is required of all
businesses, then 5 percent of
vehicle parking spaces round-
ed to the next whole number
be provided.”
For example, if a parking
lot has 20 vehicle parking
spaces, that would mean one
spot plus one more, since one
is fi ve percent of 20. If a lot has
30 vehicle parking space, fi ve
percent is 1.5 spaces, which
would be rounded up to two
spaces plus the one required.
There were also changes to
off-street parking and loading
sections, with the addition of
storm drainage requirements.
Changes were also made
regarding yard parking and
storage restrictions. In terms
of yard parking, the old word-
ing was replaced with this:
“No parking of vehicles, trail-
ers, boats or recreational vehi-
cles shall be allowed in a front
yard except on a driveway.”
In terms of storage restric-
tions, side and rear yards may
be used for storage and park-
ing of those vehicles but the
areas must be screened by a
six-foot high fence, wall or
hedge. The areas must be ei-
ther a durable hard surface or
a gravel surface.
“The section is updated so
gravel surface is allowed for an
RV,” Brown said. “The intent
is for RVs not moving on a
regular basis. We don’t want to
create more impervious sur-
face. As long as it’s not track-
ing mud to the street, it will be
an acceptable surface.”
Councilor Marlene Parsons
noted the change for apart-
ment parking, which used
to have a rule of two park-
ing spaces per apartment. The
new rules call for one parking
space at a one-bedroom unit,
with 1.5 spaces for a two bed-
room (or more) unit, plus one
space per 10 units for visitor
parking.
“Did we do any research
on that?” Parsons asked.
Brown said research mainly
came from what was approved
for the new apartments being
built at Keizer Station Area C.
“We built in a couple of
factors, such as percentage of
visitor parking and also a cer-
tain number of spots had to
be open for visitor parking,”
Brown said. “We’re pretty
confi dent the number will
work, based on industry stan-
dards and our direct experi-
ence.”
In other business Nov. 2:
• A Keizer Station Area C
reimbursement district has in-
deed been established in rela-
tion to the construction cur-
rently going on at Chemawa
Road and McLeod Lane.
Back in April, councilors
adopted an ordinance estab-
lishing a process to form the
reimbursement. Bonaventure
Senior Living and Mountain
West Investment Corpora-
tion have combined to form
KS Reim LLC. Bonaven-
ture is putting in a 154-unit
retirement community and
Mountain West Investment
Corporation is putting in 180
apartments.
As part of the project, KS
Reim is putting in new infra-
structure including an exten-
sion of McLeod Lane and new
sewer, stormwater and water
service. Once other compa-
nies do projects in the area
and utilize that infrastructure,
they will reimburse KS Reim.
In September, it was esti-
mated the project would cost
$3,233,931, with $683,476.83
of that cost being for the
McLeod extension. Council-
ors agreed to reimburse KS
Reim for 12.08 percent of the
McLeod cost, based on traffi c
analysis numbers.
Dana Krawczuk, an attor-
ney speaking on behalf of KS
Reim, noted in September the
company was taking a risk by
putting in the infrastructure.
“We are taking the risk that
others will connect in and
we get paid back,” Krawczuk
said. “If the balance of Area C
doesn’t develop, we don’t get
paid back anything. This is a
$3.2 million risk. Our prime
directive was to be fair but also
predictable.”
City Attorney Shannon
Johnson told councilors last
week the only infrastructure
not being put in by KS Reim
is a new signal, which is about
a $500,000 project.
Whoever puts in a signal at
the intersection in the future
would have a second agree-
ment for reimbursement for
that cost.
“This is just what you asked
us to adjust (in September) in
the numbers,” Johnson said.
Councilors approved the
motion unanimously with a
minimum of discussion.
“I love seeing all the grav-
el and dirt out there,” mayor
Cathy Clark said.
• An ordinance for aban-
doned shopping carts was ap-
proved. The ordinance was the
same approved 6-1 in Octo-
ber, but it had to be brought
up for another vote due to the
lack of a unanimous vote the
fi rst time.
In short, the ordinance calls
for a number people can call if
a shopping cart is abandoned
off a store’s property, plus a
maximum fi ne of $100 for
stores if carts are not retrieved
within three days.
On the second vote, the
ordinance was once again ap-
proved 6-1, with councilor
Amy Ryan again the lone dis-
senting vote.
• Several appointments
were
confi rmed. Ashley
Wenger, Jill Bonney-Hill and
Sherrie Gottfried were ap-
pointed to the Keizer Points
of Interest Committee.
Bonney-Hill and Gott-
fried are both currently on the
KPIC board, so they are reap-
pointments.
Meanwhile, Josh Eggleston
was appointed to the Keizer
Planning Commission.
All terms end in the fall of
2018.