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PAGE A8, KEIZERTIMES, CEBRUARY 23, 2018 STUDY, continued from Page A1 Drive to McNary Estates Drive North on River Road North. Keizer Senior Planner Shane Witham said the study is an attempt to update and bring into alignment previous devel- opment plans covering those areas. “It might be a single plan for all three areas or a differ- ent plan for each one, but I'm expecting that we will end up with a package of text that changes how we implement regulations in the identifi ed ar- eas,” Witham said. Depending on how resi- dents want the areas devel- oped, it might mean substantial changes to how new develop- ments are constructed – with residences on top of com- mercial spaces – to aesthetic changes like a wider palette of color options or increased at- tention to landscaping. One key aspect of the study will be how the changes tie into the area’s transportation systems. The study is being funded through an Oregon CONVO, continued from Page A1 and open lines of communi- cation. The Community Con- versation will include infor- mation from the city on what has been done in the past, but there will be an emphasis on “open mic” time for attendees to offer ideas. Thomspon said that even within the Chamber there is a wide range of ideas regarding what to do about River Road. “It runs the spectrum from some who want pedestrian malls to others who are will- ing to accept it as it is now,” Thompson said. “The thing that folks seemed to gel around was facade and land- scape improvements.” As recently as a decade ago, Keizer doled out match- ing grants for businesses along River Road to make such im- provements using funds from Transportation and Growth Management (TGM) grant. “Since it's a TGM-funded program, transportation is a piece of it as well as some traffi c engineering, and we're hoping that can achieve a little greater density or develop- ment that could accommodate the growth needs the city has,” Witham said. “We're not trying to meet all the (growth) needs, but we can look at creative design and capitalize on rede- velopment that accommodate residences on top (of commer- cial development).” While Witham and Com- munity Development Director Nate Brown are just begin- ning a series of weekly meet- ings with Portland-based Otak consultants to come up with specifi c dates, two groups need to be assembled. One is a group of about 10 Keizer stakehold- ers who will advise on the overall scope of the study, the second is a handful of commu- nity members who will form a Community Advisory Com- mittee and review the output of the study and make the fi nal recommendation to the Keizer City Council to accept it. In addition to those, group time is being set aside for public meeting to gather ad- ditional input, but the dates are not yet certain. For those who are shy about speaking in public, other outlets are being planned as well. “We also expect that we will be rolling out a project website to solicit comment,” Witham said. Given a city budget that is silo-ed and spoken for long before it ever reaches the dais of the city council, Witham is also hoping the visioning pro- cess includes talk about fund- ing. “I'm hoping there will be a candid conversation about how the needle gets moved fi nancially and we discuss the tools and implementation strategies that are possible,” Witham said. The last substantial fund- ing Keizer had available for economic development came from an urban renewal district that has since been disbanded. Still, the idea of creating a vi- sion for River Road is hardly new. “There is a lot of work that has gone into River Road over the past 20 years and it took a lot to get it to this point, against a lot of opposition in some ways,” Brown said. The last major effort took place just after the turn of the millennium. It was known as River Road Renaissance and while the project made some strides in revitalizing River Road, the few lasting impacts were incorporating ideas like meandering side- walks and stamped sidewalks across driveways into the de- velopment code. Other ideas like creating defi ned districts along River Road struggled to get off the ground and didn't stick after The Great Reces- sion gutted the urban renewal budget. Brown stressed that while the substance of the conversa- tion will deal with the some- times dull language of Keizer's development code, the chang- es made will come from com- munal vision. “For this to have any mean- ing, people have to participate. The reality is that we intend to change the way Keizer does business along River Road,” Brown said. “For that we have to have the community in- volvement.” a now-defunct urban renewal district. Urban renewal dis- tricts are special taxing dis- tricts funded by incremental taxes. When a district is estab- lished property values within the boundary are frozen by the county assessor when the district starts. As property val- ues increase, the difference between the frozen value and the new value goes to the dis- trict rather than the city or county. The prior Keizer urban re- newal district, which was used to fund dramatic improve- ments along Cherry Avenue Northeast and put utility infrastructure underground along River Road North, fell victim to the Great Recession and later was used to bail out a developer at Keizer Station who defaulted on city-backed loans. Thompson said the idea of a new Urban Renewal Dis- trict was not out of the ques- tion in regard to a new River Road vision, but that it was important to have a vision in place before fi guring out how to fund it. “We're pretty early in this process, but the relationship between the city and chamber is strengthening already. After the Community Conversa- tion, we want to partner with city staff and fi gure out exactly what we hope to do and how to do it,” Thompson said. SERVICES MISCELLANEOUS DIVORCE $155. Complete preparation. Includes children, custody, support, property and bills division. No court appearances. 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