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About 60 people showed up for the first Oregon Department of Transportation workshop last Thursday night at Broadway Middle School to help develop a new Transportation System Plan (TSP) for Seaside.
Theresa Carr, transportation planner for CH2M Hill and consultant for the TSP, said many of those who came stayed for over an hour and spent time at each of the different stations.
“The meeting went well. We got a lot of feedback on our initial ideas,” Carr said. “We had staff from the City of Seaside manning the stations, as well as Clatsop County, ODOT, and the consultant team. We got great feedback from the public on what criteria to use to evaluate the design concepts, the initial bicycle and pedestrian improvement ideas, transit improvement ideas, local roadway ideas, and highway improvement ideas.”
Carr said quite a few people signed up to talk with City Manager Mark Winstanley and ODOT Planning and Development Manager Erik Havig, who were sitting at their own table.
At this point, Carr said it is her goal to get ideas from the public and she and the consultant team will come back with refined concepts after the holidays.
“We are taking the feedback we received on the concepts and ideas for new concepts to establish what we call the universe of ideas,” Carr said. “We’ll be developing feasible concepts this month, and next month we’ll be considering how they perform against the evaluation criteria. We’ll be coming back out to the public to share this information in January.”
Carr encouraged people to log on to www.seasidetsp.org/weeklyupdates.aspx to read comments they received during the workshop.
“And to take it the next step, we’ll be taking the feedback received in January to refine the concepts, and will come back out in February with a set of recommendations. Once we get final feedback on the recommendations, we’ll be drafting up the TSP,” Carr said.
Carr said the TSP study area is somewhat larger than Seaside’s city limits and its urban growth boundary – reaching north to G Street in Gearhart, south to Rippett Lane, and west past Wahanna Road.
“The planning team will develop a plan for improvements to all modes of transportation in Seaside – the road network, the bicycle and pedestrian network, the transit network and the airport,” she said.
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