GREAT NEIGHBORHOODS
PROJECT REPORT
City of Albany, Oregon, November 1998
DOWNTOWN HOUSING AND PARKING
North Albany Middle School, 11/17/98
Housing
- Upper story
- Ownership of wherever you live
- People - key livability - increased variety of businesses
- Encourage building code flexibility - ADA - sprinklers - historic integrity
- Encourage more walking - more stops
- Walk signs with push buttons
- More trees and benches
- Bike lane
- Security
Parking
- Parking structure
- Need for more parking. Buy a car lot
- Park-n-ride
- Funding
- Parking structure - Must reach critical mass
- On county land
- Code plan for parking in new development
- Encourage streetscape - pleasure of walking
- Not so tied to cars. Have benches
- This would slow cars and traveling
- Bump outs - Can see pedestrians