On Monday Council looks to have a short set of items on the agenda. Two are of interest here.
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| Some search results for "parking lot solar awning" |
Council will hold a First Reading for a set of code amendments for climate mitigation on large parking lots and increased housing options.
The proposed code amendment will require climate mitigation when developing new parking lots larger than one-half acre; allow existing parking lots citywide to be converted by a public agency to park and rides; allow single-room occupancy housing in all residential, commercial, and mixed-use zones;
The parking lot provisions include options for:
- More trees,
- Solar installations, or
- Paying into a fund for new wind and solar power
The State is making these requirements, so the code package is largely a matter of compliance with those requirements, and hopefully should be a straightforward adoption.
There is also code to broaden potential for Single Room Occupancy housing, which would assist some proportion of people in moving from street and park camping.
Previously, with more detail, see:
There are also "other clarifying changes to the UDC," but these are not listed, and it's always possible to wonder if the City is trying to sneak anything in. The ordinance document is well over 300 pages, and who is going to read it all other than staff?
Arising from the large project at Doaks Ferry and Orchard Heights, there is also a TSP amendment to reclassify Landaggard Drive from collector street to a local street, and to designate a new segment of Colorado Drive as the collector street. Council will look to schedule a formal Public Hearing on the amendment.
Back in the NCMU zoning discussion a decade ago, Landaggard was going to be a local street and new and separate street would be a collector and connect with Orchard Heights.
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| Landaggard was in 2011 proposed as a "local street" |
Then Landaggard was designated a collector.
Now with the NCMU zoning scrapped and the apartment complex in process, developers propose to make Colorado's connection to Doaks Ferry primary and the designated collector street.
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| Colorado and Landaggard swap |
Those who oppose the whole project might seize on this proposal as another way to impede the project, but in the context of the project going forward, on the merits there doesn't seem to be any reason to prefer Landaggard as the collector. Maybe a Public Hearing will prompt some critique of Colorado, and then there might be more to say.
Addendum, October 6th
Meanwhile, celebration on the airport just seems so tone deaf. It's hard enough to reduce emissions on existing patterns and custom - like on parking reform. But you'd like to think, and you would be wrong of course, that any rational Climate Action Plan would have provisions curbing wholly new classes of emissions in Salem. This is a sign of how deeply unserious we remain.
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| Celebrating Emissions on Thursday Clips from SJ and LA Times this summer City of Salem photo, via FB |
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Added clip on the airport hype.
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