Item 5: Crest Drive Community Team Recommendations

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Alto streetsidewalk or driveway These are a cement peice about 24 inches wide, i am shure the same shape could be formed cheeper from asphault than cast cement but it would be hard to make it uniform p. s. i am not sure if this solves Erics issues, but it does at least make sidewalks much safer for mixed use, and reduces redo when curbcuts change. pss. how can any road improvement cost landowners $20k per 100 feet of frontage? pss. i have an idea that i would like to see tried that would make you NEVER have to dig when utilities change, that i would love to present. + Ted Selker, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab + Director Context Aware Computing Group E15-322 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA, USA 02139 http://www.media.mit.edu/~selker selker@media.mit.edu + office 617-253-6968, h 6503835079, + From: Kevin Knode [mailto:kevin@kipcoinc.net] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:26 AM To: *Eugene Mayor and City Council Subject: Crest Drive City Representatives, I am writing as a property owner on Crest Drive. I own 3.6 acres on the south side of Crest Dr. opposite Wills Court. In the past two years, I have been working with the City on an infill development project known as Crest Meadows PUD. Although lengthy in process time, I am confident the design solution met the satisfaction of the Neighborhood Association, City planners, and developers on behalf of the future home owners who desire to live in south Eugene. The challenging problem of the improvements to Crest Dr. you are currently discussing is an issue with me and many of the neighbors I have spoken with as we worked on the site. Being a road builder by trade and having to negotiate the existing narrow streets with trucks as we work in the area is just plain not safe! Add bicycles to the mix and you have a disaster waiting to happen. Make the road even narrower, and it becomes a liability. When we began our design of Crest Meadows, the City required us to improve our frontage of Crest Drive for a 27 foot wide street which allowed for a bike lane and some parking. There is an existing 60 foot right of way owned by the City where Crest Dr. runs and that makes sense. Being this is the City of bikes, and this is the major access route from the south west into downtown, providing for bike travel was a "no brainer". However, this was then changed to a 21 fooot street and they elimenated the bike lane and parking. This was then changed again to add back parking (all changes required by the City Public Works Dept.), and the design was - 5 - Crest Drive CSS Design Recommendation Public Testimony 2/14/08 through 4/8/08