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Neighborhood Hubs Project
BACKGROUND
The idea for Neighborhood Hubs was developed by Milwaukie community members during the City’s 2017 Community Vision and Action Plan process. Neighborhood Hubs are intended to provide neighborhood gathering places and locations where residents have access to a variety of services or goods within walking or biking distance of their homes. Hubs are envisioned to vary in size and intensity. They could be as small as a mobile neighborhood tool library (tool sharing) or as large as a cluster of mixed use buildings with housing above shops and services.
As part of its current update to Milwaukie’s Comprehensive Plan, the City is currently exploring options for how to make the hub vision a reality. The City is working with Scott Edwards Architecture, Angelo Planning, and Johnson Economics to create at least one hub concept for each neighborhood in the city. While most of the development of these hub concepts will happen through private development, having a community-supported plan of action to help guide and spur the creation of these hubs is important to the City. The City is not planning on buying property to create these hubs. Instead, as time goes on, property owners may choose to sell and redevelop based on these hub concepts or be developed by current property owners. In addition, the City could support creation of the hubs through changes in its zoning code, development and co-funding of public facility improvements, and/or coordination with private property owners, developers, and/or neighborhood groups and residents.
CURRENT UPDATES
AUGUST 2019 (ONGOING) - Continued research of implementation strategies.
Based on community feedback, City staff and the consultants have been working on figuring out implementation strategies to make these draft proposed hubs a reality. Does this mean some sites need zone changes? Are the the current zones appropriate? Are there additional programs that are needed to help facilitate change in these hubs? Are the proposed short and long-term goals for each hub what the community wants? Expect additional community outreach on these proposed short & long-term goals and implementation strategies in 2020!
To make sure you know when these are going to happen, please email plan@milwaukieoregon.gov to get on the email listserve, if you are not already. Any outreach will also be posted on the City's social media pages, website, and in the Milwaukie Pilot.
MARCH 2019 - Continued outreach will be done to update the community on the project.
We'll be at these NDA meetings to discuss updates to the project:
Don't know what Neighborhood District Association (NDA) you are apart of? Find out here!
- March 11th - Hector Campbell NDA meeting
- March 13th - Lake Road NDA meeting
- March 13th - Lewelling NDA meeting
- March 14th - Linwood NDA meeting
- March 20th - Island Station NDA meeting
- March 25th - Ardenwald/Johnson Creek NDA meeting
DECEMBER 2018 (ONGOING) - An economic analysis of each of the proposed hub is being done to assess the feasibility of the hubs based on potential future scenarios.
AUGUST 2018 - Additional outreach has been conducted for the Milwaukie community during this month. City staff and consultants have been working since the May 2018 NDA sessions to find specific locations for hubs and design concepts for the hubs. In August, City staff asked Milwaukie community members if the locations chosen for these neighborhood hubs are correct and if the proposed draft concepts are headed in the right direction. During the month, staff met with community members at Lewelling and Ardenwald-Johnson Creek concerts in the park, a morning at the Milwaukie Farmers Market, the Hector Campbell NDA and Island Station NDA picnics. This outreach helped the City receive almost 400 survey results and countless conversations with community members. A summary of the survey results can be found under the Supporting Documents below.
MAY 2018 - City staff and staff from Scott Edwards Architecture attended each NDA meeting to start brainstorming ideas for hubs and possible locations. Notes from these brainstorm sessions can be found below under Supporting Documents.
MARCH 2018 - City staff attended each Neighborhood District Association (NDA) meeting to start the conversation about these Neighborhood Hubs concepts and the expected 1-year timeline for the project. Any ideas or concepts that come out of the hubs process and relate to the need for policy or land use changes will be added into the Comprehensive Plan update that is currently happening.
Contact Us!
Have further questions about the Neighborhood Hubs Project? To stay informed about the project and other opportunities to provide input, join the email list for the Comprehensive Plan update and Hubs Project, or contact the Planning Department at plan@milwaukieoregon.gov.
Supporting Documents
Neighborhood Hubs Info Flyer (1 MB) 