GROWTH/FUTURE DEVELOPMENT/SDCs/
MANAGED RESIDENTIAL GROWTH

Mennonite Village, 11/12/98

• City should sit down and think things out better on growth issues.
• New development should pay its way...City should raise SDCs.

Memorial Middle School, 11/12/98

• Do need SDCs.
• Don't need anymore housing developments.
• Need to provide services such as city infrastructure, public safety, parks, library, etc.
• Prepare for growth first, don't develop at expense of existing neighborhoods.
• Better space between homes.
• Better time (more time) spent on building homes.
• Leaving land for farming, meadows, parks, wildlife.
• Able to keep neighborhoods quiet.
• Limit boundaries.
• Seems to be an apartment glut in Albany.
• Coos Bay has an ordinance dealing with adding population and providing services.
• Not a consensus-some believe more housing is needed.
• SDCs need to be competitive with other communities either more or less.
• Lower SDCs to control housing costs and bring in new business.
• New business creates nice housing costs because of higher demand.

North Albany Middle School, 11/17/98

• Development of new areas: roads, schools, lighting, etc., trashed lots.
• Mixed housing in North Albany, not putting all apartments in SE.
• Rest of North Pointe development should be done (City).
• Area zoned multi-family in Hickory Street area-should build apartments there.
• Lehigh-access to development not adequate for added housing.
• Same is true for North Albany (cart before the horse) (people added before good traffic flow plan in effect-result is congested traffic on North Albany Road-some new road out of North Albany and across river planned?).
• City allowing building in known floodplain (i.e., 13th Avenue and Springwood).
• City and/or County should be held accountable for allowing building in a floodplain area.
• Don't take farm land for development, increase density.
• When North Albany was annexed, residents were promised would keep rural feel-don't like sidewalks and street lights.
• Can't tell people that they can't move to Albany.
• Seems like we don't need to build more, so many houses are for sale now, every other one seems to have a For Sale sign.
• When Coos Bay ordinance was mentioned some felt it would be good if done right, one person felt it would stop development completely, if how to pay for service for people came before the development.
• Open Space Preservation for wildlife: North Albany starting to look like South Albany with bumps.
• Better planning so that there are open spaces within developments.
• Better lighting in our Riverview Heights Subdivision.
• Some people want more lighting, some don't; let neighborhoods decide.
• Infrastructure needs to be brought up to the level of development.