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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,
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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.
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