SEPTEMBER 9, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A9
Audubon plans KRP birding trip
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A birding fi eld trip will be
hosted by the Salem Audubon
Society at Keizer Rapids Park
Wednesday, Oct. 5.
There are a variety of
habitats that attract a variety
of birds including sparrows,
fi nches and towhees. Many
others can also be found such
as waterfowl, raptors, wood-
peckers, warblers, and creep-
ers. Swallows, ospreys, king-
fi shers, and an occasional eagle
are spotted occasionally near
the river.
Meeting time is at 7:30 a.m.
at the far parking lot in Keizer
Rapids Park, 1900 Chemawa
Road North. People are en-
couraged to bring water and a
snack for the trail.
SHACK,
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they’ll choose to do at a later
date,” he said. “Everyone has
something they can do, and I
think more people would vol-
unteer if they just knew where
to go to do it.”
Those in need of assistance
are also welcome to contact
MAK through Facebook.
“It might just be an older
couple who needs things
hauled away. If they pay the
fee to dumping site, we’re
happy to provide the service,”
he said.
While he’s been a driving
force behind the expansion
of MAK, Shackelford doesn’t
want it to become a one-man
show. He’s more interested in
getting the MAK name out in
the community.
Shackelford recalls “terror-
izing the town” between pa-
per routes and tearing down
River Road North in his car
in his youth. He expects sev-
eral of the people who saw
him in those days wouldn’t
have expected him to turn out
as well as he has, but he’s cur-
rently enjoying nothing more
than going out and helping
someone in need.
“I feel awesome at the end
of the day. Giving to the com-
munity gives back, and I’m
fortunate in my career to be
able to do the things I’ve been
able to do,” he said. “It’s nice
to have my effort recognized,
but I want the focus to be on
MAK.”
Support Network.
For the play’s two principals, Joe Botkin and
Nyla McCarthy, rehearsals alone have tapped
into some deep wells of emotion.
“I think we’ve had one rehearsal where we
didn’t break down,” said Botkin.
While the production is timed to coincide
with the 15th anniversary of the 2001 attacks,
McCarthy thinks there is something in the script
for those who don’t remember where they were
the day it happened.
“My character, Joan, talks a lot about media
coverage and how watching things happen isn’t
the same as being engaged,” she said. “There are
so many people who don’t know what to do
when bad things happen. This play is kind of a
lesson in engaging and fi nding ways to connect
as individuals that has a hell of a lot more value
than liking something on social media.”
Botkin’s Nick, a fi re department captain, fi nds
himself trying to assemble something meaning-
ful from, at times, mundane interactions.
“When he starts talking about the men he is
eulogizing he has trouble expressing who the
“A couple of weeks ago we
helped (a local resident) clean
out her garage because she’s
caring for her husband. We
got the whole thing organized
and hauled away donation and
scrap piles,” Shackelford said.
MAK is always looking for
new volunteers and members
do not need to be members of
the Chamber of Commerce.
The best way to contact
Shackelford and his cohorts is
through the MAK Facebook
page.
“A lot of the projects in-
volve some sort of manual la-
bor, but we have several mem-
bers of the group who are
retired guys just looking for
something to do. If they aren’t
members of the Keizer Cham-
ber now, maybe it’s something
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is greater than the need for
high density housing, Okada
wrote.
She also contested issues re-
volving around school impacts.
While the schools will not
turn away additional students,
“putting a 112-unit apart-
ment complex on a busy road
– right next to a roundabout,
where traffi c never stops – is
not a smart or logical choice to
make.”
Okada contacted Salem-
Keizer School District in an
effort to determine just what
the impact to schools might be.
The results contradict the 41
new students projected in the
rezone proposal.
“I contacted the SKSD to
fi nd out how many students
lived at Keizer Terrace Apart-
ments, which are directly across
the street from Kennedy (El-
ementary) School. There were
124 students from the 153-unit
complex – the ratio of students
to housing was 81 percent. If
the 81 percent ration were ap-
plied (to the new complex),
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there would be 91 new students
from this property – more than
twice the amount currently
planned by the school district,”
she wrote.
Okada concluded with an
analysis of the traffi c impact.
“The impact of an addition-
al 100 cars, and probably closer
to 200 cars, from this proper-
ty, driving every day on Verda
Lane, will not be absorbed by
the addition of the roundabout.
It will just add more cars to the
already long lines that currently
exist,” she wrote.
The rezone plans call for a
cap of 750 trips per day, but
Okada said it is unreason-
able to expect such a limit to
be enforced on future resi-
dents, particularly given that a
112-apartment complex is ex-
pected to generate an average
of 745 trips per day.
“The report submitted by
the engineering fi rm hired by
the family has a trip generation
cap that will be immediately
exceeded once the apartment
complex is fully occupied,”
Okada wrote.
In the new evidence pro-
vided to the city last month, at-
torney Wallace Lien and Mark
Grenz of Multi/Tech Engi-
neering, suggested that city of-
fi cials grant more weight to the
testimony of “experts” rather
than the voices of concerned
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residents when it came to im-
pacts on traffi c and schools in
the surrounding neighbor-
hoods.
Resident Laura Wells took
issue with both the substance
of the development and the
tone of its proponents.
“I realize that growth is in-
evitable, but it must be done
tastefully and thoughtfully,
and 112 apartments on the
Verda farm property is neither,”
Wells wrote. “The attorney
said, “Schools’ lack of capacity
would still exist ...” well that’s
just an indifferent and irrespon-
sible statement. It just adds to
the evidence that these folks
don’t care about anything but
lining their pockets.”
One of the reasons, pub-
lic testimony has dragged on
for months is the status of the
farmhouse that rests on the
property. It was likely built
around 1860 making it one of
the oldest structures in Keizer.
A report fi led with the Or-
egon Department of Parks and
Recreation lists the site as po-
tentially historic, but further
investigation and several public
hearings would be required for
it to attain an offi cial designa-
tion.
Multi/Tech
Engineering
provided a structural assessment
in its latest wave of documents
that claim the home is “unsal-
vageable.”
Deanna Fuller wrote that
the source of the study could
not be trusted.
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men were. As she draws it out of him it is pow-
erful, powerful stuff,” he said.
The experience of working with the char-
acter for the past several months has shed new
light on both his work and home life.
“Things get under my skin and they will eat
at me for a while, but since I started working on
this play, I’ve let a lot more of the little stuff go
by. I’ve taken the moment to pause and realize
that we’re all in this together and we’re shar-
ing this,” Botkin said. “The play has helped me
make space for those moments to think about
the people who mean the most to me and ap-
preciate everything they do.”
Botkin is also curious to see how his family
reacts when they come to see the play; some of
his kids were barely into the double digits when
the planes struck the World Trade Center.
For McCarthy, it is the play’s message of con-
nection that she hopes is received most power-
fully.
“We drive by people living on the streets, we
see photos of impoverished people all over the
world, but no matter what role you play, we’re
all citizens of this world and no one should have
to be on the outside,” she said. “I want people to
come out of the theater feeling like they want to
go be close to people they love.”
“It seems to me to be a
confl ict of interests to have the
developer be the one to decide
the professional assessment. Of
course he would deem it un-
salvageable. He has bigger plans
for monetary profi t and that is
his job,” she wrote.
Resident Eamon Bish-
op suggested that signifi cant
changes in the zoning of the
property require a re-exami-
nation of the fl ood plain map
under the National Flood In-
surance Program and Endan-
gered Species Act. In fact, the
existing house was likely built
on the ridge due to the regular
overfl ow fl ooding of Claggett
Creek during Oregon’s rainy
season.
Resident Alan Kendall
called upon the council to rec-
ognize what would be lost if
the rezoning is approved.
“The introduction of high
density housing onto Verda
Land, and its attendant crowd-
ing, is more than a slow deg-
radation, it is a huge step in
the wrong direction,” Kendall
wrote. “Of all the proponents
of this plan, the Herber fam-
ily, the hired attorney and the
hired engineering fi rm, no one
has a motive to benefi t this
neighborhood. If this proposal
is approved and the apartment
complex built, after the profi ts
are divvied up and the propo-
nents are long gone … only
the residents of Verda Lane and
environs will remain behind to
deal with any consequences.”
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