EvergreenEastridge Charrette

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Evergreen/Eastridge Charrette

• Stakeholder Meeting Highlights

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Transportation and Major Roads

• Synchronize traffic lights
• School traffic access and kids safety
• Improve traffic movement
• Create pedestrian friendly environment
• Transportation demand management
• Regional solutions imperative

3
Transit

• Improve pedestrian and existing transit
  connections from homes to work to community
  facilities
• Efficient shuttles, transit alternatives---
  immediate need.
• Light rail stations exciting and mixed use.
• More communication about existing transit
  services
• Better design of pedestrian corridors

4
Vietnamese Outreach

• Community area or dedicated street with a
  distinctly Vietnamese character that includes
  Vietnamese design and cultural elements, lotus
  towers, pictures, fish scale tiles, doors,
  foliage, bamboo, etc) Façade, courtyard help in
  shopping center streetscape.
• High-quality cafés and restaurants that would
  appeal to the broader community as well---outdoor
  marketplaces and vendors.
• Wide open entrances---in Vietnam doors were open
  from early in the AM to late at night, alleys and
  arcades, place where older people can meet and
  that has after school activities for kids
• Community networking (the lunch meeting provided
  a very active exchange of business cards!
• More information and communication on City plans
  City should inform community through church,
  Buddhist Temple, E-mail, etc.

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Vietnamese Community Outreach

• A place for seniors, teens and children to meet
• More neighborhood parks
• Need connections and walkability
• A cultural center near public transportation for
  a sense of identity
• Community networking
• More communication with city

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Latino Community

• Change shouldnt displace existing residents and
  families
• Need for affordable housing young families, home
  ownership and stabilization of existing residents
• Assistance with existing homes maintenance
• Use portions of flight path for passive park
• Places/activities for children and teens
• Opportunities for Latino business in Eastridge
  redevelopment
• Affordable day care
• Safe street crossings

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Schools, Non-Profits, Churches Cultural Groups

• More flow of information to residents regarding
  existing resources and services.
• Improve school facilities - convert to hubs of
  community activity---open more hours---locate
  services and activities in school---continue
  teacher housing assist.
• Better pedestrian access to schools---connect
  with trails
• Large public space for community festivals,
  celebrations, meetings, classes, etc.
• Add movie and theater facilities including
  multi-lingual facilities
• Improve park facilities---lighted athletic
  fields, restrooms---programs for people of all
  ages, cultures
• Add new elementary school site to Ley Va

8
Business Owners and Neighborhood Retail

• Most businesses are self-financed using family
  funding and staffing.
• Signage overwhelms Tully
• Businesses are not coordinated---need round table
• Diversity and economic development must work
  together
• Latinos worry that they will be left behind or
  forced out of economic development
• Vietnamese fear they lack political and economic
  presence
• Move toward multicultural accessibility with 60
  languages---cant have 60 niches

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Parks, Trails, and Community Facilities

• Connect bike and pedestrian pathways into raging
  waters and Lake Cunningham. Open access to LC
  Park
• Diversity representation and historical
  commemoration (e.g. memorial grove to ethnic
  figures).
• Rec Facilities---e.g..., Swimming pool,
  children's oriented interactive art from all
  ethnic groups, performing arts center, skate
  park, lighted athletic fields, community center
  for meetings, parties, bowling alleys and ice
  rink.
• Public art that reflects walnut orchards and what
  was in the area historically, arbors and native
  vegetation.

10
Arcadia site

• Pedestrian and auto access across and through
  Arcadia site for existing and proposed uses
• Include park/green space/athletic fields with
  landscaping that references pastorchards,
  gardens
• Provide adequate parking
• Housing mixincluding affordable housing, senior
  housing and adequate infrastructure for second
  units
• Include small hotel/inn
• Location of LRT
• Provide for views to eastern hills

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Housing

• Housing closer to transit---LRT closer to housing
• More rental housing new and rehab
• More home ownership opportunities
• Utilize existing sources of funding for
  affordable housing, state fed tax credits, bonds,
  HFA, Redevelopment , rehab assistance etc.
• More affordable housing, mixed housing and open
  spacerange of types
• Homes for grown children of residents.
• Improve pedestrian access and connections to
  existing housing

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Eastridge Mall

• Eastridge isan important institution in the
  community and should reflect the communitys
  diversity....where different communities and
  cultures come and mix.
• More direct connection to transit (tunnel,
  protected walkway, lighting) and for pedestrians
  transit station as a place
• New strategy add entertainment, sit down
  restaurants, mix of independent and franchise
  retail, interior improvements
• Sears property most developable- outside airport
  path
• Want a main street appearance, flowers, fountain,
  less pavement, cultural diversity reflected in
  architecture
• Confusing driving approach, levels, lack of
  signage
• Want places for artists to show work, musicians
  to play, concerts, performance area, keep ice
  rink that is used for teams and leagues.

13
Land Use Policies and Airport

• Need density to support transit and provide
  affordable housing---but fear of density is issue
• Residential stabilization important so density OK
• Place design in context of regional plan
• FAA and county land use restrictions on
  development in and around airport.
• Flood plain issues
• Exceptions can be made at airport, but must pass
  safety guidelines
• Improvements to airport site needed

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Infrastructure and Street Design

• Improved Pedestrian crossing Capitol Expressway.
• Redesign streets to promote safety.
• Greater housing density alleys, garages on rear.
• Street lighting
• Storm drainage and runoff detention for new
  development