Wednesday, March 10, 6:30-8:00pm at the Churchill High School
Library, the Bailey Hill Road Safety Committee will hosting the first
of 3 meetings to determine the message at the long-planned Safety Education Plaza.

The Plaza will be built near the skate park in May and June of this year. The
message signs will be based on the regional “Eye to Eye” safety campaign
www.seeingeyetoeye.org .
Students, faculty and members of the community can
contribute their ideas.

Other planned dates for the ‘Message Team’ meetings are April 7 & 21

Volunteer opportunities for site preparation, and the concrete plaza
placement will occur on Saturday May 8th, 9-2 and Thursday May 13th , 9-2.

Contact Marina Hajek at 338-3124 or Tom Schneider at 729-1263”

The Churchill Area Neighbors 2009 Fall newsletter has been delivered. If you would like to view it online, please click here.
 
Feel free to visit our newsletter archive page for past newsletters.

Recently flyers have been taped to doors in several neighborhoods in the
Churchill Area regarding painted curb numbers.

Typically, these notes include a suggested "donation" and and request
that you tape the flyer to your curb in order to opt out.

The most recent ones are from "Community Sign Painting".

These groups are not related to the City of Eugene, Public Works, the Fire or Police Departments.
They may use high-pressure tactics to obtain the "donation". In some
cases where a check was used for payment, the account number was
subsequently used fraudulently.

Please note that not all curb painters operate in this fashion. Curb
painting is a popular way for students and groups to earn money.
However, a legitimate painter will establish a price or donation prior
to performing the work.
The curb painting scammer, on the other hand, performs the work and then
attempts to coerce you into a payment.

Caution is advised when dealing with any door to door solicitation.

Reputable businesses and non-profit organizations will have a verifiable
point of contact and paperwork to substantiate what they are selling.
They will not act aggressively or attempt to make you feel guilty for
refusing to pay, not will they ask for Social Security or bank account
numbers.

Summertime is high season for these types of activities, following this advice from the Eugene Police will help you weed out scams from legitimate activities:

Tips to Prevent Falling Prey to Scam Artists
*    You have a right to say 'no,' and have the person leave if you don't wish to participate.

To whom it may concern:
Please be aware that the Churchill ARea Neighbors meeting scheduled to meet this week is to being cancelled due to Spring break and lack of expected attendance. We will resume meeting next month at our normally scheduled time.
Wayne Taubenfeld,
Chair, CAN

Because of the Holiday season, we will not be holding meetings in November or December.
Join us again in January 2009!

Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan Update Starts in Eugene’s South Hills Area
The City of Eugene Public Works will conduct three open houses to gather public input on needed improvements for the pedestrian and bicycle system. The first phase of the pedestrian and bicycle master plan will focus on five neighborhoods in the south hills area of Eugene: Laurel Hill Valley Citizens Association, Fairmount Neighbors, Southeast Neighbors, Crest Drive Citizens Association, and the Churchill Area Neighbors. Here’s the schedule for the three meetings:

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  • Tuesday, Nov. 18, 5 to 7 p.m. at University of Oregon Agate Hall, 1787 Agate St.
  • Wednesday, Nov. 19, 5 to 7:30 p.m. at 4J Arts and Technology Academy Cafeteria at Jefferson, 1650 West 22nd Ave.
  • Thursday, Nov. 20, 5 to 7:30 p.m., 4J Churchill High School Library, 1850 Bailey Hill Road

All three open houses will have stations with information on the existing pedestrian and bicycle system, planned improvements, and innovative walking and biking design treatments. Participants will be asked to identify existing problems and needed improvements to make Eugene more walkable and bikeable.  City staff and members of the Master Plan Advisory Committee will be on hand to guide the public through the stations and collect public comments. Three separate meetings are scheduled at different locations in the south hills area for the convenience of the public. Interested members of the public can attend any one of the three scheduled meetings.
For more information about Pedestrian-Bicycle Master, visit the master plan website at www.eugene-or.gov/pwprojects.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Speed Limit Lowered on Bailey Hill Road

The speed limit on Bailey Hill Road between 18th Avenue and Warren Street has been lowered to 30 mph, effective immediately.

The State Speed Board lowered the speed limit from 35 mph in response to requests from the City of Eugene for a lower speed limit on the busy four-lane street that abuts Churchill High School, the Churchill Youth Sports Park and Kennedy Middle School and also serves as a major transportation corridor for much of southwest Eugene.

The reduced speed limit on Bailey Hill Road is one of several steps taken following the death of 10-year-old Vaclav Hajek, who was killed crossing Bailey Hill Road on August 27, 2007. Other strategies developed by a local citizen safety group and City staff include a proposed redesign of the roadway to reduce the number of lanes pedestrians must cross and educational efforts aimed at encouraging safe sharing of the roadway by all users, including motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.

To help reach that goal, the City in late July applied for an Oregon Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Program grant for approximately $360,000 to provide safer crosswalks, landscaped medians and wider bike lanes on Bailey Hill Road.

“No single action, including the lowering of the speed limit, will solve the safety issues on Bailey Hill Road,” said Tom Larsen, the City’s traffic engineer. “Resolving a complex set of issues like this requires a combination of education, enforcement and engineering.”

On July 25, the City of Eugene applied to the Oregon Department of Transportation for $359,100 to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety on Bailey Hill Road.  4-J schools has commited to relocating the driveways to allow the changes to Bailey Hill Road, which will cost another estimated $250,000-$300,000.  If the everything falls into place, including passage by the voters of the road improvement bond issue this fall that would pay for the reconstruction of Bailey Hill Road between 18th and Bertelson, the reconfiguration will take place at the same time as the reconstruction in 2010.   A copy of the City's application and two possible reconfigurations is available on the Public Works Website at www.eugene-or.gov/pwprojects.  Look for the link to "Bailey Hill Road."     Thanks to everyone in CAN who supported this effort to improve the safety of this major transportation link.

The City of Eugene is sponsoring three public design workshops for the Bailey Hill Rd. redesign project.

They will be on Wednesdays for the next 3 months. Dates are April 9, May 7 and June 4.
Meetings are held at the Churchill High School library, 6pm to 8pm.
Detailed calendar entry

At the CAN meeting on January 23, the BHRSC proposed a 2-phase solution package that would begin to implement the Road Diet option in 2008. This would consist of restriping Bailey Hill Road to three lanes and installing one or more temporary "pedestrian refuges." The Solution Package proposes retaining 4 lanes at the intersection of Westleigh and Bailey Hill Road, which would allow cars to continue to access the Churchill High School south parking lot as they do now. The second phase would take place in 2009 or later.

The attached Powerpoint Presentation describes the proposed package. The attached pdf file is a drawing (not to scale) of how the road might look after it is restriped.

Eric Jones, from Eugene Public Works Department, attended the CAN presentation and announced that the City has decided to convene a public design workshop to start analyzing the cost and safety of the various short- and long-term improvements. The workshop will probably be scheduled in March.

If you are interested in participating in the Workshop, please join the Bailey Hill Road Safety Coalition electronic mailing list.

As a reminder to all of our neighbors, CAN will not be having a December meeting due to the holiday.

Please watch your mailbox for an exciting January newsletter and meeting news.

Acorn Park Street Traffic Calming Project Information and Details

The City of Eugene has received several requests for traffic calming on Acorn Park Street in recent years. Residents cited speeding, an absence of sidewalks, and the nearby location of a neighborhood park as concerns that may be addressed through the use of traffic calming devices.

Funding for the development and implementation of this project is being made available through a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for the second phase of the Acorn Park renovation. Phase 2 of the Acorn Park renovation project allocates $12,000 in CDBG funds to develop a traffic calming project on Acorn Park Street. Other elements of this phase include the construction of a basketball court, tree planting, and sidewalk construction between the Fern Ridge shared-use path and 13^th Place.

Acorn Park Street is an unimproved local street that connects 11^th Avenue to the north with 17^th Avenue to the south. Data from the most recent traffic studies conducted on September 17^th, 2007 is shown in the table below:

Location

Average Daily Volume

85th Percentile Speed Login or register to post comments Read more Bailey Hill Road Safety Commitee Resource Page Posted September 18th, 2007 by Craig Topham News Resources BaileyHill Road Safety Committee discussion forum Bailey Hill Road Safety Committee A mailing list for the for the Bailey Hill Road Safety Committee. Results of Public Works Suggestions Voting from October 24th Memo to BHRSC from Eric Jones with Voting tallies (October 24th) City of Eugene Memorandum: Preliminary Analysis of Bailey Hill Road Safety Improvements Bailey Hill Road Safety Committee Chart notes from 9-19-2007 (Julia Pommert) Sorted Issue Chart from Sept 12, 2007 meeting (Julia Pommert) Sorted Solutions Chart from Sept 12, 2007 meeting (Julia Pommert) Heinrich Pyramid The Three Es Sue Palsbo's meeting summary from Sept 12, 2007 Map of Bailey Hill Road (Google) City of Eugene Neighborhood Traffic Calming Volunteer Radar Program Login or register to post comments Read more 1 attachment Bailey Hill Safeway to Close Posted August 1st, 2007 by Alan Buck News   Safeway Inc. said Wednesday it plans to close two Eugene stores next month while moving ahead with plans to renovate other stores in this market. The two "underperforming" stores - one at 2060 River Road, near Belt Line Road, and one at 945 Bailey Hill Road, at West 11th Avenue - will close Sept. 8, company spokesman Dan Floyd said. Floyd said the 99 employees of the two stores will have an opportunity to work at other Safeways in the area but added that the company could not guarantee them jobs at other stores. "Ideally, most of them will stay within that market," he said. "Some may choose not to work for Safeway and some may choose to work outside the market." The 54,000-square-foot Bailey Hill Road store opened in 1989, but never performed up to expectations, Floyd said. "It was underperforming at a very low level," he said. "We tried everything and it was not working." The company owns the Bailey Hill Road property, but Floyd said he didn't know if Safeway would seek to lease it or put it on the market. The River Road store opened in 1968 and is just 24,000 square feet - about half the size of modern grocery stores. Floyd said Safeway leases the River Road store and will be seeking tenants for the space. The closures will allow Safeway to renovate its other stores in the area, he said. Work on a renovation of the East 18th Safeway began in June, the Cottage Grove Safeway at 1500 E. Main St. is next, with work set to begin there late in the year, he said. Three other stores - two in Springfield and one in south Eugene - will be renovated by the end of 2008, Floyd said, but no firm dates have been set for those projects. Login or register to post comments Read more 12next ›last » Navigation Recent posts News aggregator Upcoming events Annual Eugene Celebration!(27 days) more Highlights Planning and Development Churchill Area Neighbors Newsletters Technology Committee City of Eugene "Twitter Aggregator" Envision Eugene more Mailing Lists Mailing Lists News An announce-only list for meeting schedules and other community news. Community A general discussion list for anything pertaining to the CAN area. User login Username: * Password: * Create new account Request new password Syndicate