Notes from Community Meeting – April 27, 2006

St. Alphonsus Cafeteria – 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

 

Peter’s Group

 

·            Focused mostly south of Market Street

·            Number 1 priority should be to improve the roadway

·            Number 2 should be lights and sidewalks

·            Number 3 should be derelict cars and campers

 

Should approach the City SDOT about parking study north of Market Street

 

One idea to calm traffic north of Market Street is to remove the median and weave the road from east to west between cross-streets, providing diagonal parking in the “bulges”

 

Industry/Manufacturing

·            Market forces within changing neighborhood surrounding

·            Improve functionality to make businesses work

·            Improve roads/turning radii/lines of sight

·            Demonstrate support

·            Develop framework for communication

o        Living where you work

o        Diversity

·            Parking for businesses/industry

·            Get all folks together

·            50-60% absentee owners

·            Too many other priorities in the city

 

Dawn’s Group

 

North of Market Concerns

 

  1. When driving, you have to watch for bicycles zooming across from 15th thru 14th
  2. No trash cans
  3. People living in campers
  4. Cars – high speed (mostly north of Market Street)
  5. Ugly median
  6. Visibility of other cars/pedestrians when crossing 14th
  7. No public space for neighbors and dogs
  8. 65th and 14th where the High School students park, there is median around cars that is hard to drive around
  9. Have a need to better support our community and our local businesses and maintain our unique spaces and businesses
  10. Drunks on street and into neighborhood, primarily after bars let out

 

 

North of Market Solutions/Ideas

  1. Add signage; flowers in median; adopt-a-median garden – for apartments, condos etc; p-patch; benches in median
  2. Painted/whimsical trash cans and recycle bins; adopt-a-street clean-up; get people to clean up trash on their walks
  3. Call campers into City
  4. Make streets more of a park-feel to slow down traffic
  5. See #1
  6. See #4
  7. Park; dog-park; community center (like Sunset Hill Community Center)
  8. No solution/idea offered
  9. Neighborhood events at local spaces and businesses
    1. Bowling party at Sunset Bowl
    2. August night out
    3. Quarterly parties
    4. Bingo
    5. Create a Social Committee

 

 

South of Market Concerns

  1. Cars all over – looks like big parking lot
  2. Looks bad/un-kept; it looks bad, then people won’t care for it
  3. Parking garage for Safeway smells of urine; doesn’t feel safe to walk in this area
  4. Mars Hill is getting very busy and taking up lots of parking, and lots of people walking around on the streets
  5. Streets are in bad shape

 

Rob’s Group

 

Eliminate center medians

·            Diagonal parking on one side, widen parking strip on other side

 

Alternate medians

·            Will block driveways

 

Green feature: underground cisterns to water plants and for water features

 

One-way conversion

·            Emergency vehicles can no longer use

 

Take ownership of intersections with City Repair

 

Ongoing care of cherry trees

 

Large community center; round-about; observation tower

 

Medians (center medians)

·            All medians

·            Every other median

·            “Notch” the parking strips

 

Questions for SDOT

·            Reclassify as less than arterial

·            One-way

·            Blocking east-west traffic flow

 

Goals

·            Reduce traffic from 15th

·            Improve pedestrian safety

 

Park access within 15th/65th/Market/8th

 

Café community center

·            Public funds from 14th to buy property

 

What are we trying to accomplish by “closing” 14th ? 14th is too close to 15th and is used as a way to “drive around” the lights on 15th, which makes our neighborhood less neighborly