PAGE A2, KEIZERTIMES, OCTOBER 18, 2019
New River Road plan adopted
police scanner
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
Triggering conditions
debated by council
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The city will be changing the way it fosters
development on River Road North with the
adoption of the Keizer Revitalization Plan by
the Keizer City Council.
Councilors adopted the plan – with some
changes – in a 6-0 vote Monday, Oct. 7. Coun-
cilor Elizabeth Smith was absent.
The revitalization plan charts the course of
changes the council hopes to see in the coming
years and decades. It is the culmination of almost
two years of study, planning and public engage-
ment on issues of commercial development.
As the council reviewed changes to the plan
before adopting it, the topic that received the
most discussion was when property owners
would have to consolidate entrances. The city
hopes to reduce the number of driveways on
River Road for the purposes of improving traf-
fi c fl ow and increasing pedestrian safety.
“Many [businesses] have multiple entrances
that we are trying to control for a better safety
and pedestrian experience,” added Community
Development Director Nate Brown.
Consultants suggested triggering driveway
consolidation when site changes increases off-
street parking by more than 10 percent, when
overall parking increases by more than 15 per-
cent or when more than 20 percent of a site is
repaved or resurfaced.
City staff weren’t ecstatic about the piece-
meal nature of those standards and asked the
council to strike the fi rst two parameters and
trigger the driveway merges only when more
than 20 percent of a parking lot is reconstructed.
“Reconstruction, or digging up portions,
triggers other potential impacts and this would
come along with those,” said Shane Witham, the
city’s senior planner.
Councilor Laura Reid asked if the effort to
close driveways could dis-incentivize redevelop-
ment for some property owners.
Brown replied that any regulatory shift will
deter some owners from making changes to
their property, but that nothing will change
without a mechanism to provoke it.
“This is about where is it appropriate to set
the thermostat for the how you want River
Road to change. This is not an onerous level to
expect change to occur,” Brown said.
Mayor Cathy Clark suggested that it might
be a matter of how the city promotes the chang-
es to property owners when they consider rede-
velopment.
“If they are redoing their parking lot, we
approach them with a way to re-work parking
with a city planner to maximize use of space
and increase safety,” Clark said. She added that
changes to a shared parking lot at Keizer Martial
Arts at 4790 River Road North achieved both
goals.
Other changes in the plan will be triggered
when redevelopment is equal to or more than
25 percent the total value of the structure and
the property.
Contact the reporter at editor@keizertimes.com.
Shredding event at WVB
Community members are
invited to have their paper
documents securely destroyed
and recycled by a mobile
shredding truck at Willamette
Valley Bank in Keizer, 5130
River Road N., on Friday,
Oct. 25 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
To celebrate Oregon
Community Bank Week,
an annual observance pro-
claimed by Oregon’s Gover-
nor, members of Community
Banks of Oregon are joining
forces to help Oregonians
combat identity theft by
hosting free document shred-
ding events across the state.
With identity fraud affect-
ing 16.7 million U.S. Con-
sumers last year alone, secure-
ly destroying documents that
contain personal information
is one of the best ways con-
sumers can protect them-
selves from identity thieves.
7 a.m. - Identity theft, com-
puter crime felony and fraud
use of credit card in the 4000
block of Crater Avenue N.
8:04 a.m. - Criminal mischief
and burglary in the 5000
block of Inland Shores Way
N.
4:22 p.m. - Physical harass-
ment in the 4000 block of
Noon Avenue NE.
4:49 p.m. - Criminal trespass-
ing in the 6000 block of Ulali
Drive NE.
4:52 p.m. - Driving unin-
sured at the intersection of
Lockhaven Drive NE. and
Crestwood
4:53 p.m. - Traffi c accident
at the intersection of Riv-
er Road N. and Lockhaven
Drive N.
5:18 p.m. - Theft from motor
vehicle in the 6000 block of
Keizer Station Boulevard NE.
7:16 p.m. - Arrest for war-
rant served, criminal trespass-
ing, shoplifting and littering
in the 4000 block of River
Road N.
11:05 p.m. - Arrest for war-
rant served in the 3000 block
of Cherry Avenue NE.
11:53 p.m. - Arrest for harass-
ment and criminal trespassing
in the 4000 block of River
Road N.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8
8:24 a.m. - Physical harass-
ment in the 1000 block of
Lockhaven Drive NE.
8:54 a.m. - Motor vehicle
theft in the 5000 block of
Robindale Drive N.
11:18 a.m. - Disorderly con-
duct in the 1000 block of
Lockhaven Drive NE.
4:30 p.m. - Assault in the
3000 block of 5th Avenue N.
8 p.m. - Arrest for bench
warrant in the 4000 block of
River Road N.
8:03 p.m. - Traffi c accident
at the intersection of Alder
Drive NE.and Pleasant View
Drive NE.
9:17 p.m. - Physical harass-
ment and criminal trespassing
in the 5000 block of Robin-
dale Drive N.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9
4:45 a.m. - Criminal mischief
in the 1000 block of Country
Glen Avenue NE.
1:27 p.m. - Arrest for re-
straining order violation in
the 1000 block of Country
Glen Avenue NE.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10
9:40 a.m. - Theft by decep-
tion in the 700 block of Ev-
ans Street N.
5:40 p.m. - Criminal mischief
in the 4000 block of Delight
Street N.
6:11 p.m. - Menacing use
or display of weapons in the
2000 block of Kennedy Cir-
cle NE.
6:40 p.m. - Traffi c accident in
the 5000 block of Elizabeth
Street N.
8:22 p.m. - Failure to per-
form duties of driver when
property was damaged in the
6000 block of Ulali Drive
NE.
8:45 p.m. - Arrest for warrant
served in the 6000 block of
Ulali Drive NE.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
2:43 a.m. - Arrest for warrant
served and interference with
a police offi cer at the inter-
section of Shangri La Avenue
NE and River Road N.
9:20 a.m. - Criminal tres-
passing in the 500 block of
Greenwood Drive NE.
2 p.m. - Residence burglary
in the 4000 block of Thor-
man Avenue NE.
9:25 p.m. - Theft in the 4000
block of 15th Avenue N.
12:26 p.m. - Theft in the
4000 block of Gary Street
NE.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
10:59 a.m. - Physical harass-
ment in the 3000 block of
River Road N.
12 p.m. - Backyard burning
in the 6000 block of Lopez
Court N.
8:29 p.m. - Criminal trespass-
ing in the 5000 block of Riv-
er Road N.
10:15 p.m. - Probation vio-
lation in the 1000 block of
McGee Court NE.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13
2 a.m. - Criminal mischief,
motor vehicle theft and un-
lawful entry to vehicle at the
intersection of St. Croix Way
NE. and McLeod Lane NE.
7:30 a.m. - Theft in the 700
block of Weeks Drive NE.
10:01 p.m. - Arrest for war-
rant served in the 4000 block
of River Road N.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14
2 a.m. - Motor vehicle theft
in the 800 block of Manbrin
Drive NE.
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