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Kuebler Improvements

Click here to see the Kuebler Blvd. Improvements Fact Sheet.

Click here to see responses to questions raised at the November 12, 2009 SGNA Meeting.

Click here to see changes currently under consideration.

New Community Organization

You are invited to join a new community organization, Neighborhood Harvest. Our volunteers gather unused fruit from Salem’s backyards, share the bounty with families who are hungry, and take home free produce, grown right here. We seek to create community and strengthen neighborhood friendships, alleviate hunger, create awareness of our abundant edible landscapes, and promote sustainable lifestyles. We are affiliated with Friends of Salem Saturday Market and linked to Marion-Polk Food Share through donations of produce.

We are seeking energetic, responsible volunteers. Sign up to be a harvest leader, neighborhood coordinator or site scout. We’ll show you how to organize a fruit-picking adventure while meeting neighbors and new friends.

To volunteer, contact Katherine at kdaniels@salemharvest.org. Register your tree, vine or berry bush using our online form, or contact Dick at dyates@salemharvest.org. For information visit www.salemharvest.org or contact Lisa at lclark-burnell@salemharvest.org.

Free Security Surveys

Volunteers from the police department are offering to do free security surveys.
If you are interested in having an officer survey your home call the City Crime Prevention Unit at 503-588-6175.

Safety Tip: Dowels in windows need to fit tightly to prevent the window from being opened. A loose dowel can be lifted out!

What do you think of the proposed apartments?

Click here to see a document submitted by Geoffrey James of Land Design NW that provides a narrative description with a color vicinity map and site map of the proposed apartments to be located south and east of Rainier St South (just south of Davis Road).

This information was presented during the February 11th SGNA General Meeting.

The Planning Commission is scheduled to hear this proposal on March 2.

Lone Oak Final Master Plan

Click here to see the Lone Oak NeighborhoodPark Final Master Plan
Lone Oak Site Plan              Play Area Details

Wes Bennett Survey Results

Below is a visual representation of the results submitted to the City of Salem. Click on the image for a larger view.

SurveyResults

Option 1
Widen Reed Ln by 10 ft
Allow on-street parking on both sides of street
15 to 16 parking spaces
Wes Bennett Option 1

Option 2
Widen east side of Reed Ln by 7ft
10 to 11 parking spaces
Wes Bennett Option 2

Option 3
Widen south side of Baxter Rd by 19ft
35 parking spaces
Wes Bennett Option 3

Option 4
Mark out the on-street parking spaces
Park side or both sides
Mark loading zone for drop-off and pick-up
Wes Bennett Option 4

Option 5
Mark 5ft yellow curb next to driveways to improve driveway access
Wes Bennett Option 5

Option 6
No on-street parking in the vicinity of the Park
No parking hours limited (ie 10am to 6pm)
Wes Bennett Option 6

Option 7
Install Residential Permit Parking District
Residents could park with permit
Visitors allowed to park for 90min once per day
Wes Bennett Option 7

Option 7a
Install No Parking except for Residential Parking Permit
Residents and visitors can only park if they have a permit
Option7a

Option 8
Install splash fountain at Woodmansee
Has 102 pkg spaces
Has restrooms
Wes Bennet Option 8

Option 9
Move splash fountain from Wes Bennett Park and install at Woodmansee Park

Option 10
Restrict hours of splash fountain at Wes Bennett Park

Option 11
Keep existing signing (No parking Wes Bennett Park Users)

Changes Under Consideration

Because of the widening of Kuebler Blvd., there will be some changes in certain areas of SGNA during the next few months. Property has been or will be purchased along the Kuebler Blvd. right of way which is needed in order to widen that beltline and meet state and federal requirements.

One place under consideration is the entrance through the fence just west of Lone Oak Rd. which provides access to Kuebler Blvd. from Khyber Ct. (See pictures below).

If this entrance remains and becomes a part of the widening process, a concrete incline would have to be built with no more than a 7% drop down to Kuebler. The current drop is 3 feet. Because of the 7% requirement, this new concrete incline would have to be up to 60 feet wide. This change would be required because of A.D.A. laws.

If this entrance is eliminated, some adjacent personal property would not have to be purchased, and the City would save approximately $35,000. It has been suggested that walking or riding around the small block, adjacent to that entrance, is a short walking distance and that many people already use that alternative.

If you have any concerns or disagreements with the idea of eliminating this entrance, please feel free to contact SGNA and/or come to our December 10th meeting. Our Transportation Committee will be considering this issue over the next few weeks.

- Pat O’Dell

Looking from Khyber Ct. through the entrance toward Kuebler Blvd.

Looking from Khyber Ct. through the entrance toward Kuebler Blvd.

Looking from Khyber Ct. through the entrance toward Kuebler Blvd.

Looking from Khyber Ct. through the entrance toward Kuebler Blvd.

Looking up toward Khyber from Kuebler

Looking up toward Khyber from Kuebler

What would you like to see discussed?

All residents, property owners, business licensees, and representatives of nonprofit organizations who reside or conduct business within the boundaries of the association are welcome to post suggestions and feedback here.

This an open public forum for the exchange of information, ideas and opinions. Censorship is undesirable; Civil discourse is required. Please, always be courteous and respectful. We won’t always agree, but we can agree to disagree is a neighborly fashion.

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