Oak Grove Neighborhood Center Plan is now available

foothillplanning — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:58:52 +0000

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

foothillplanning — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:52:26 +0000

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

foothillplanning — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:41:38 +0000

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!

foothillplanning — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:59:53 +0000

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

foothillplanning — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:05:39 +0000

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.

foothillplanning — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:58:40 +0000

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.

Thank you for attending our Walking Workshop!

foothillplanning — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:49:34 +0000

On Saturday April 24 we had 25 enthusiastic participants from all over Oak Grove walking with us on either the McLoughlin Boulevard Tour or the Oak Grove Boulevard Tour. We learned more about current problems and concerns, and discussed ideas for solutions and visions for the future.

A summary of the workshop will be emailed and posted on the website within a couple of weeks.

The completion of this workshop marks the end of our first public outreach phase. We are now going to use all information we’ve gathered from community leaders, businesses and engaged citizens, as a basis for our planning and design recommendations for Oak Grove.

We will be presenting our draft proposals at the May 26 Oak Lodge Community Council meeting at Rose Villa’s Fellowship Hall. An open house from 6-7pm will be followed by a formal presentation at the meeting, which starts at 7pm.

Thanks also to the Oak Grove Fire Station for letting us use their building, to Urban Green for providing delicious refreshments, and to our note-taking volunteers Holly, Sadie and Jackie, first-year students in the Master of Urban and Regional Planning program at Portland State University.

Check back soon, and email us at info@foothillplanning.com with any questions or ideas.

Kathryn, Nathan, Adam, Alicia, Carley and Åsa, Foothill Planning

Participants gather at the fire station before the tours.

Oak Grove Boulevard Tour participants discuss intersection at River Road.

McLoughlin Boulevard Tour group talks ideas for pedestrian improvements on McLoughlin.

Two Oak Grove Boulevard Tour groups brainstorm ideas for the entrance to Oak Grove's downtown.

After the tour observations were recorded on maps back at the fire station.

Participants had a chance to exchange ideas with the other tour groups. Here McLoughlin Boulevard.

: More mapping and discussions after the walking tours.

Refreshments!

Our project in The Oregonian

foothillplanning — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:29:40 +0000

The Oregonian just featured a piece on all the upcoming changes along McLoughlin Boulevard. The article mentioned our project and announced our Walking Workshop on Saturday April 24. From the article:

The PSU students, all majoring in urban and regional planning and working under the name Foothill Planning Associates, are hosting a walking workshop Saturday, April 24. The goal is to learn from participants about community assets, concerns and ideas for Oak Lodge’s future. The group will use information from the workshop to develop preliminary recommendation for “a more viable and sustainable community,” said Alicia Crain, group spokeswoman.

“The Oak Lodge Community Council can then take those ideas to the county and say, here’s the direction we want to go,” Crain said. “It’s really an opportunity to focus on the historic Oak Lodge business district and decide in a collaborative way how that area can and should evolve.”

Tomorrow, Saturday April 24: Walk Oak Grove with us!

foothillplanning — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:18:40 +0000

Some of you business owners may have met us out on Oak Grove Boulevard or McLoughlin, where we’ve been chatting to businesses and dropping off surveys. If you’re a community leader, we may have interviewed you. As an engaged Oak Grove resident, you may have met us at community events and meetings.

Now it’s time for our first big event, namely the Community Walking Workshop! The Oak Grove community is invited to provide insight into community assets, concerns and ideas for the future.

This event is more active than your typical sit-down-meeting. Starting from the Oak Grove Fire Station, we’ll split up in small groups and walk the area, focusing on the Oak Grove Boulevard business district, McLoughlin and connections with the proposed MAX station at Park Avenue.

Afterwards, we’ll gather back at the fire station for refreshments and a recap of what we experienced.

Email us at info@foothillplanning.com with any questions or concerns, and we hope to see you at the Oak Grove Fire Station on Saturday April 24 at noon!

Click here to download a Walking Workshop Poster for printing.

Foothill learns about MAP guiding principles

foothillplanning — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:58:44 +0000

Foothill attended the McLoughlin Area Plan (MAP) Open House on April 10 at Rex Putnam High School. It was an especially useful community meeting, as the MAP outreach efforts to date were summarized into guiding principles in the areas of Economic Vitality, Transportation, Social, Design, Environment and Administrative. There was lively discussion among approximately 50 residents. This information offers Foothill a tremendous opportunity to build off of MAP’s robust public outreach effort that has reached hundreds of area residents. Foothill was also able to advertise our April 24th Walking Workshop at the event.