Here are the texts from the post-its left on the Transportation poster board from our meeting on the Houghton Everest Neighborhood Center (HENC) meeting of April 1, 2015:
Transportation
Entrance, exits, streets, CKC Access, Transit, movement of auto & people
Transportation
Entrance, exits, streets, CKC Access, Transit, movement of auto & people
- Mixed use will bring in more children. Lakeview Elementary School is at maximum capacity.
- Please plan for safe areas for school bus stops – off the main streets.
- When property redevelops put parking underground with underpass under street to connect to other BC area.
- Transportation
- Traffic will drive everything about HC. Solve this first, then we can see what is possible.
- Reduce min parking requirements and replace with maximum parking limits. Encourage people who want to bus, work in neighborhood, use CKC for walk/bike.
- Transportation major problem will get worse. I do not see space to expand roads . Need better public transportation.
- Consolidate entrances & exits at Met Market & PCC/Houghton Mkt.
- Suggested change –
- Have cars enter into PCC shopping zone through upper entry off 68th & exit out the lower driveway to increase traffic flow.
- Don’t let people’s fear of traffic prevent high density. Can have density with minimal traffic impact if parking requirements are sensible.
- Traffic – no further dev until 6th St S, 108th, 68th NE are resolved.
- Create a roundabout to assist with traffic flow around center.
- We need a corridor study for transportation (like the 100th Street Corridor Study in Juanita) to look at traffic & transit & bike & walk & parking in area as a whole.
- Transportation
- How about a stoplight at NE 68 & 106th Ave NE. (Coordinate light w/one at 68th & 108th).
- Would help school traffic & those exiting from Houghton center turning left or right.
- Deal with traffic congestion issues 4 lane street expansion E&W and N&S.
- Access to CKC off of 68th by bridge.
- Add more access points.
- Easy parking in/out BC
- Add access rom the CKC down to 68th near bridge and Lakeview Elementary.
- Parking consideration when planning.
- I like the idea of businesses that face the trail. Their plans should expect that that space will have light rail in the future. No acting surprised later!
- Eventual transit on CKC; making HENC a “transit oriented development”!
- This might make higher density a good fit for the area.
- Adequate parking in the BC.
- Peak traffic flow needs to be managed better.
- Trolley Kirkland – downtown -> Park Place -> BC and back. Keep non-driving options for new appts on Central Way. Parking at Park Place (5000 cars planned).
- CKC connections
- Promote great CKC connections to HENC.
- I love the CKC and I am strongly in favor of light rail. When light rail comes to our area, I’d like the space to be expanded so we still have a trail next to the rail.
- More pedestrian access to the CKC.
- For example, a staircase at 68th for kids going to Lakeview.
- Need safer way to walk between current PCC/Metro areas - Stop Light? Overhead ramp?
- Center lane turn both E & South 6th Ave to the North
- Re look at traffic flow after Google up and running
- Need multi-family housing that will attract residents that use transit/CKC, not people who want to drive cars everywhere.
- Include policies to require public access to corridor when the 3.6 property redevelops in BC.
- Assume that use of public transportation will increase over time
- Make plans that work for more buses and light rail not only for cars.
- Solve parking problem
- 9th Ave
- Center
- From the Potala experience I think the hardest thing on transportation issues is to get the city to look at making street amenable to desired development rather than thinking of streets that don’t work well as fixed & making development work around them. Example: 10th will become impassable when Potala is built.
- Transportation
- Already bad, increased density/stories/housing will make it impossible. A neighborhood center should serve the neighborhood.
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