Oak Grove Neighborhood Center Plan is now available

Our final product is now available:

Click here to download the Oak Grove Neighborhood Center Plan in full color, for web view or color printing.

Click here to download the Oak Grove Neighborhood Center Plan for black and white printing.
These files are also available under “Documents”, and in hard copy with our clients;

• Oak Lodge Community Council 
• Clackamas County Urban Green.

This report marks the end of our exciting workshop project.  We hope our work has contributed to create discussion and generate ideas that can lead to positive changes on the ground for Oak Grove.

This website will remain as a chronicle of the process and as a place to find project documents. For questions about the project as it continues to live on, please contact the Oak Lodge Community Council and Clackamas County Urban Green.

Thank you!

Final report available soon

We’ve been hard at work putting together our final report.

By the end of next week we expect to post it here on the website, so check back then!

The report will also be available in hard copy with our clients: Oak Lodge Community Council and Urban Green.

Foothill presented at PSU

On June 2, Foothill presented the Oak Grove Neighborhood Center Plan project results at Portland State University. Six other workshop teams also presented their projects. We enjoyed showing the results of our work and learning about other teams’ projects, covering topics as diverse as unimproved streets, ecodistricts, urban farms, park planning, farmworker housing and aging.  Our clients (Eleanore of OLCC, Charlie, Chips and Edrid of Urban Green) attended the presentation, as well as Pat Kennedy  of Oak Lodge History Detectives.

Kathryn highlighted opportunites for McLoughlin Boulevard

Carley presented ideas for Oak Grove Boulevard

Thanks for making the Open House a success!

Over 80 interested citizens attended our Open House and presentation yesterday night at Rose Villa. We were eager to share our draft ideas with you, and thrilled so many of you were able to make it. You provided thoughtful and constructive feedback, asked important and challenging questions and drew our attention to aspects we need to examine closer.

Between now and June 9 we will be refining our proposals and incorporate your feedback where feasible into a final report. This report will be available with our clients (Oak Lodge Community Council and Urban Green), as well as here on the website.

If you were unable to attend yesterday, or just want to see the presentation again, click here to download it as a pdf.

During the Open House participants had a chance to get familiar with the project. Here ideas for Oak Grove Boulevard

Ideas for McLoughlin Boulevard

Lively discussions by the posters

After the Open House, Adam, Alicia and Nathan presented the project during the OLCC meeting

Adam began by explaining the purpose of the project and discussing existing conditions

Alicia presented ideas for Oak Grove Boulevard. Here about the transition from Oak Grove Boulevard to McLoughlin

Nathan introduced ideas for McLoughlin Boulevard. Here the corner of Oak Grove Boulevard and McLoughlin

Foothill took questions after the presentation

Foothill Planning are Adam, Alicia, Kathryn, Åsa, Nathan and Carley, all graduating students in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program at Portland State University

Article in the Oregonian + time correction

A short article in the Oregonian today mentioned our upcoming May 26 Open House at Rose Villa, in the Fellowship Hall. Here’s a correction about the time:

• The correct time for the Open House is 6-7 pm, as written in the blog post below.

Then, at 7 pm the monthly Oak Lodge Community Council (OLCC) meeting starts, in the same room. At the OLCC meeting we will have about an hour (from 7.30 and on) during which we will present our findings and draft suggestions, ideas, proposals for Oak Grove, and, importantly, hear your feedback. There will be plenty of time for discussion. Comment cards will be available too.

To sum up, you have a couple of options:

- You can come to the Open House anytime between 6-7pm.

- You can come to the OLCC meeting which starts at 7pm, and hear our presentation and give us feedback between 7.30 and 8.30 (roughly).

-You can do both!

Hope to see you there!

Your ideas at work! May 26 Open House coming up.

First things first: Click here to read our summary of the successful April 24 Walking Workshop. Feel free to contact us at info@foothillplanning.com with your comments or questions.

Next: We want to invite you to an Open House on May 26. Come to the Open House to learn how the local knowledge you provided at the Community Walking Workshop, stakeholder interviews, and site inventories were incorporated into the draft recommendations. These recommendations focus on the Oak Grove Boulevard business district and McLoughlin Boulevard, approximately between Park Avenue and Oak Grove Boulevard. Your feedback on the draft recommendations will be incorporated into final recommendations, as appropriate.

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Open House

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

6:00pm – 7:00pm

Fellowship Hall, Rose Villa, 13505 SE River Road

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We will present the draft recommendations to the Oak Lodge Community Council meeting that starts right after the Open House.

We hope the resulting plan can be a starting point for the community’s roadmap to help shape a thriving and sustainable neighborhood.