tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post3694924442001226509..comments2024-03-25T17:49:41.408-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: Cherriots to Engage Consultant for Comprehensive System AnalysisSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-87700843763232051432013-10-17T21:20:57.593-07:002013-10-17T21:20:57.593-07:00Updated with TOD map from the 2002 DLCD report.
T...Updated with TOD map from the 2002 DLCD report.<br /><br />The final Salem Futures report does not seem to be anywhere online. <br /><br />An early stage memo is <a href="http://thoth.library.utah.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MWDL&afterPDS=true&docId=digcoll_uuu_11FHWA/1408" rel="nofollow">available here</a> from a Utah Academic Library Consortium. Click on the "view resource" tab. (Why Utah? Who knows.)Salem Breakfast on Bikeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-44069225464852023272013-10-17T09:44:42.105-07:002013-10-17T09:44:42.105-07:00Thank you so much Anonymous.
In the Community D...Thank you so much Anonymous. <br /><br />In the Community Development office there is a TOD map on the wall so it hasn't disappeared entirely. I think Janet Taylor is given the most credit/blame for functionally dismantling Salem Futures. I wasn't around then, but I suspect that whatever advocates Salem had made it very easy to do... just like today's bike/ped. advocates made it very easy for parking activists to essentially defund the Mobility Study recommendations. <br /><br />Two lessons that I draw from that are:<br /><br />1. Strong, robust, intellectually sound grass roots support is essentially for long term success. Even if you have action from the top, without grass roots support, even small progress is just a house of cards waiting to fall.<br /><br />2. The parking issue cannot be ignored. You have to confront the elephant in the room head on. You have to start chipping away at the stone sometime. People in this city who call themselves land use activists are entirely ignorant of the fact that per capita parking reduction one of our land use goals too, just like increasing bike and ped. counts.<br /><br />I think it would activiate the blog more with less "anonymous" posts. Even a surname, used consistently, is better than no name at all. Something to consider.Curtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-14264699435570877932013-10-17T09:04:59.986-07:002013-10-17T09:04:59.986-07:00Here's more on the City-DLCD squabble -
http:...Here's more on the City-DLCD squabble - <br />http://www.cityofsalem.net/Departments/CommunityDevelopment/Planning/PeriodicReview/Pages/default.aspx<br /><br />The initial DLCD report from 2002 is particularly interesting - <br />http://www.cityofsalem.net/Departments/CommunityDevelopment/Planning/PeriodicReview/Documents/Doc400_2C.pdf<br /><br />In it is a map of proposed transit-oriented development. The TOD obviously has gone nowhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-65444169399526444542013-10-16T09:34:14.655-07:002013-10-16T09:34:14.655-07:00Thanks for the historical link on the city and DLC...Thanks for the historical link on the city and DLCD squabbles. It sounds as if the this city has fought very hard for its well deserved reputation as a transportation backwater in an otherwise progressive state. The empirical evidence from this experiment suggests the city's position is the big loser.<br /><br />Wait for it....<br /><br />I think one of the most important things Portland did to promote transit use was to abolish parking minimums for all developments within 500 ft. of transit service corridors. This allowed historic buildings to be preserved and more easily converted to new uses and it more allowed higher density, transit oriented development. In most cases these corridors don't have any bike lanes, yet IMO, they are more bikeable than your average Salem stroad with bike lanes and their vast parking lagoons. The quality of the urban environment there is also as good or better than anywhere I've experienced in the country. Portland TOD is even able to draw shoppers from Salem that arrive by car.<br /><br />The biggest force of opposition has been the neighborhood associations fighting to prevent parking spillover. The developers of Boulder Creek are very proud of their 4.7 spaces per 1000 sq. ft. in what was once to be a transit oriented corridor as part of Salem Futures. Sigh...<br /><br />Which brings up another rhetorical question I've been pondering lately: Is there one example from one city in the world that has robust transit usage that also has luxury accommodations for cars? I think that is an important question given the fact that many of the most vocal individuals in Salem that profess to want better transit in Salem are drivers first and their driving entitlement is what they are motivated to fight for most. When they look in the mirror, they don't see themselves as "anti-transit" but I think you do have to choose.<br /><br />To our planners and engineers, I'm sure its as obvious to them, as it is to me, what Salemites choice is.Curtnoreply@blogger.com