Evergreen/Eastridge Charrette

1. Evergreen/Eastridge Charrette Stakeholder Meeting Highlights

2. Transportation and Major Roads • Synchronize traffic lights • School traffic access and kids safety • Improve traffic movement • Create pedestrian friendly environment • Transportation demand management • Regional solutions imperative

3. Transit • Improve pedestrian and existing transit connections from homes to work to community facilities • Efficient shuttles, transit alternatives--- immediate need. • Light rail stations exciting and mixed use. • More communication about existing transit services • Better design of pedestrian corridors

4. Vietnamese Outreach • Community area or dedicated street with a distinctly Vietnamese character that includes Vietnamese design and cultural elements, lotus towers, pictures, fish scale tiles, doors, foliage, bamboo, etc) Façade, courtyard help in shopping center; streetscape. • High-quality café’s and restaurants that would appeal to the broader community as well---outdoor marketplaces and vendors. • Wide open entrances---in Vietnam doors were open from early in the AM to late at night, alleys and arcades, place where older people can meet and that has after school activities for kids • Community networking (the lunch meeting provided a very active exchange of business cards! • More information and communication on City plans – City should inform community through church, Buddhist Temple, E-mail, etc.

5. Vietnamese Community Outreach • A place for seniors, teens and children to meet • More neighborhood parks • Need connections and walkability • A cultural center near public transportation for a sense of identity • Community networking • More communication with city

6. Latino Community • Change shouldn’t displace existing residents and families • Need for affordable housing; young families, home ownership and stabilization of existing residents • Assistance with existing homes maintenance • Use portions of flight path for passive park • Places/activities for children and teens • Opportunities for Latino business in Eastridge redevelopment • Affordable day care • Safe street crossings

7. Schools, Non-Profits, Churches Cultural Groups • More flow of information to residents regarding existing resources and services. • Improve school facilities - convert to hubs of community activity---open more hours---locate services and activities in school---continue teacher housing assist. • Better pedestrian access to schools---connect with trails • Large public space for community festivals, celebrations, meetings, classes, etc. • Add movie and theater facilities including multi-lingual facilities • Improve park facilities---lighted athletic fields, restrooms---programs for people of all ages, cultures • Add new elementary school site to Ley Va

8. Business Owners and Neighborhood Retail • Most businesses are self-financed using family funding and staffing. • Signage overwhelms Tully • Businesses are not coordinated---need round table • Diversity and economic development must work together • Latinos worry that they will be left behind or forced out of economic development • Vietnamese fear they lack political and economic presence • Move toward multicultural accessibility with 60 languages---can’t have 60 niches

9. Parks, Trails, and Community Facilities • Connect bike and pedestrian pathways into raging waters and Lake Cunningham. Open access to LC Park • Diversity representation and historical commemoration (e.g. memorial grove to ethnic figures). • Rec Facilities---e.g..., Swimming pool, children's oriented interactive art from all ethnic groups, performing arts center, skate park, lighted athletic fields, community center for meetings, parties, bowling alleys and ice rink. • Public art that reflects walnut orchards and what was in the area historically, arbors and native vegetation.

10. Arcadia site • Pedestrian and auto access across and through Arcadia site for existing and proposed uses • Include park/green space/athletic fields with landscaping that references past—orchards, gardens • Provide adequate parking • Housing mix—including affordable housing, senior housing and adequate infrastructure for second units • Include small hotel/inn • Location of LRT • Provide for views to eastern hills

11. Housing • Housing closer to transit---LRT closer to housing • More rental housing new and rehab • More home ownership opportunities • Utilize existing sources of funding for affordable housing, state fed tax credits, bonds, HFA, Redevelopment $, rehab assistance etc. • More affordable housing, mixed housing and open space—range of types • Homes for grown children of residents. • Improve pedestrian access and connections to existing housing

12. Eastridge Mall • “Eastridge is…an important institution in the community and should reflect the community’s diversity....where different communities and cultures come and mix.” • More direct connection to transit (tunnel, protected walkway, lighting) and for pedestrians – transit station as a place • New strategy: add entertainment, sit down restaurants, mix of independent and franchise retail, interior improvements • Sears property most developable- outside airport path • Want a main street appearance, flowers, fountain, less pavement, cultural diversity reflected in architecture • Confusing – driving approach, levels, lack of signage • Want places for artists to show work, musicians to play, concerts, performance area, keep ice rink that is used for teams and leagues.

13. Land Use Policies and Airport • Need density to support transit and provide affordable housing---but fear of density is issue • Residential stabilization important so density OK • Place design in context of regional plan • FAA and county land use restrictions on development in and around airport. • Flood plain issues • Exceptions can be made at airport, but must pass safety guidelines • Improvements to airport site needed

14. Infrastructure and Street Design • Improved Pedestrian crossing Capitol Expressway. • Redesign streets to promote safety. • Greater housing density; alleys, garages on rear. • Street lighting • Storm drainage and runoff detention for new development