BOONES FERRY ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PHASE 1

BOONES FERRY ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT – PHASE 1

Project Advisory Committee Meeting Summary

Lake Oswego City Hall – Council Chambers July, 19 2016 - 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

PAC Members in Attendance: Bruce Goldson, Mike Buck, Carolyn Krebs, Cheryl Uchida, Trudy Corrigan, Riccardo Spaccarelli. City & Consultant Staff: Brant Williams, Sid Sin, Stacy Bluhm, Terry Song (WHPacific), Ben Ngan and Jason Hirst (Nevue Ngan), Eryn Deeming Kehe and Vaughn Brown (JLA), Ralph Tahran (Tahran Architecture & Planning LLC) Audience: Susanna Kuo, Lori Goldstein 1. Welcome Eryn announced this would be her last meeting with the PAC because she accepted a public involvement position at Metro. She introduced Vaughn Brown, principal at JLA, as her replacement. 2. Project Updates Terry indicated crews are working on surveying Lanewood St and water quality areas. Brant is reaching out to property owners where these new water quality areas will be located. Work continues on the utility relocation plans and signal pole borings. Infiltration tests are continuing and look promising. The hydrology study is also moving forward. The design team is initiating neighborhood traffic management meetings and beginning to put the construction staging plan together. 3. Art and History Subcommittee members Mike, Carolyn and Trudy provided a summary of their July 8 meeting and showed images of the different kind of art available (refer to the July 8 subcommittee meeting notes for more details and the PowerPoint presentation for examples of the art). It was noted that a goal of the subcommittee is to have a great street and to integrate the Lake Grove story in a meaningful way. Also, it is important to have a “shared” language when talking about art and history so all of the members understand the terms being used. In general, images included examples of art that was functional, wayfinding, retaining walls and screens, kinetic, interactive, monumental, interpretative maps, flora/fauna, animals, temporary public art (chalk art), and episodic art (bronze figurines). Funding source options discussed included: BFR construction project as “function art”, neighborhood enhancement grants, stormwater grants, tourism funds and private/business donations. The PAC agreed on the importance of focusing on nature, flora and animals as the “theme” and the subcommittee will continue to meet and refine ideas.

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Jason asked the PAC what kind of functional art they would like to see integrated into the streetscape and asked for “thumbs up and down” on images in the following categories: intersections, walls, colossal elements, lights, sidewalk treatments and inlays, furnishings, iconic trees and plantings, screens. Refer to the photographs of the boards at the end of the meeting summary. Thumbs up

Medallions as compass rose

11.2 Sidewalk Treatments board: lower middle– very artistic, change of texture flowing organic

Also next lower middle with rock and art on top

BFR as “corduroy road”

Use of vertical element to cast out shadow (woman walking next to column)

Good emotional reaction to brail wall Thumbs down

11.2 Sidewalk Treatments board: not fond of the big lines, they’re too large spatially, could do more, lower one is more artistic

Do not like the wood slats because it looks like house framing

11.3 Walls: Too many words on upper right and bottom left looks bad Other comments:

It would be nice to have some element that continues the themes between extended sidewalk areas

Planters and retaining walls provide opportunities for art

Integrate the theme (similarity between sidewalk and crosswalk treatment)

Need to consider weather and maintenance

Celebrate native stone (like basalt) Ralph discussed the Streetscape and Art Opportunities Map and noted the maps show locations for proposed design element such as art (red circles), signature trees (green circles), walls (blue dashed line) stormwater planters (blue dots), planters (orange dots), expanded sidewalk areas (yellow lines), and mid-block crossings (large blue circles). The design team asked if this is a good start and that the PAC email any additional comments to Ben and Jason. 4. Intersection Treatments Terry explained the two options for the Quarry Rd/Boones Ferry Road (BFR) intersection (see illustrations). Option one provides a better angle with a slightly smaller “pork chop” island. It also retains a location for the neighborhood sign in the pork chop. Option 2 realigns the Quarry Road approach to make it more perpendicular to Boones Ferry Road and results in a slight bulb out on the south side of Quarry. Both Alternatives would have the same bike lane width. During the PAC discussion, concern was raised about safety and maintaining neighborhood identity. It was noted that cars speed on Quarry Rd getting onto BFR and that cars nudge into the crosswalk in order to see up BFR, which creates conflicts with pedestrians. It was raised that keeping the pork chop was important for maintaining the neighborhood character (and sign) and possibly consider extending the pork chop median up Quarry Road. It was expressed that providing a perpendicular stop would help address and also provide a spot for the neighborhood sign in the bulb out. Terry and Stacy will look into if there are any turning issues for school buses and fire trucks under the perpendicular intersection option. Staff will gather additional feedback from the neighborhood traffic meetings on the two options and present the findings and other options to the PAC.

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There are several intersection the PAC will need to discuss, including: Madrona/Bryant, McDonald’s/Jenike, Oakridge/Reese and mid-block crossings. The team shared examples of intersections including Naito, Portland Bus Mall, 72nd/Dartmouth (Tualatin), Lloyd District, Kenton/ N. Denver and Burnham Street (Tigard). Notes/comments:

Many liked the brick work at Portland Bus Mall. It was very expensive and so is the maintenance. There were drainage issues, but that was resolved by drilling drain holes in the concrete tray under the sand set pavers. There is a lot of stress on the brick from the heavy buses turning on them. ADA issues were raised with the brick and it was noted that due to the historic nature of the area the design was exempted from many of the requirements that would be applicable to the BFR improvements.

We need to look at the life cycle cost for brick, asphalt and concrete.

It was noted that the concrete crosswalks against the asphalt defined the edge. Even though concrete is distinguished from the asphalt edge, we would still likely need to apply white thermal plastic at the edges.

Do mid-block crosswalks need more visibility? The purpose of introducing intersection design was to plant a seed as we move forward. These are all comments and question the materials subcommittee will be discussing. 5. Public Comments There were no public comments

Next Meeting Next meeting to be held Tuesday, August 16th, at 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 380 A Avenue, Lake Oswego.

BOONES FERRY ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PHASE 1

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