Linking Tualatin Final Plan
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Linking Tualatin Final Plan June 2013 Attachment B - Page 1 Acknowledgements Tualatin Transportation Task Force Deena Platman Metro Lidwien Rahman ODOT Regular Members Randall Thom Business Rep - Small Employer Alan Aplin TPAC Representative Bethany Wurtz Tualatin Tomorrow Representative Bruce Andrus-Hughes TPARK Representative Brian Barker TVF&R Member Alternates Bill Beers TPAC Representative Gail Hardinger Alternate Business Monique Beikman City Councilor Nic Herriges Alternate Citizen Charlie Benson Citizen Representative John Howorth Alternate Citizen Kelly Betteridge TriMet Candice Kelly Alternate Tualatin Tomorrow Ryan Boyle Citizen Representative Lou Ogden Mayor Wade Brooksby City Councilor Ray Phelps Alternate Business/Chamber Karen Buehrig Clackamas County Valerie Pratt Alternate TPARK Joelle Davis City Councilor Mike Riley Alternate CIO Cheryl Dorman Business Rep/Chamber of Commerce Tualatin Planning Commission Travis Evans Citizen Representative Mike Riley Chair Jan Giunta CIO Representative Alan Aplin Allen Goodall Business Rep - Large Employer Bill Beers Judith Gray City of Tigard Jeff DeHaan Julia Hajduk City of Sherwood Nic Herriges Steve L Kelley Washington County Steve Klingerman Nancy Kraushaar Citizen Representative Cameron Grille This project is funded through a Construction Excise Tax Planning Grant from Metro, Portland’s Regional Planning Agency. Contract #930815 Attachment B - Page 2 Tualatin Parks Advisory Committee (TPARK) Tualatin Job Access Mobility Institute Team Dennis Wells Chair Linda Moholt Chief Executive Officer, Tualatin Chamber of Commerce, Team Leader Bruce Andrus-Hughes Cora Lee Potter, Service Specialist, Ride Connection Kay Dix Dan Marchand, Service Planner & JARC Administrator, TriMet Connie Ledbetter Heather McCarey, Executive Director, Westside Transportation Alliance Dana Paulino Joe Lipscomb, Retired Architect and Urban Planner Valerie Pratt John Kuypers, Retired Transportation Executive and SCORE Volunteer Steve Ricker Sue Bryant, Career Specialist, PCC, Worksource Portland Metro – Tualatin Cindy Hahn, Associate Planner, Community Development Department, City of Tualatin City Staff Cindy Hahn City Project Manager Consulting Team Kaaren Hofmann Engineering Manager Matt Hastie Angelo Planning Group Aquilla Hurd-Ravich Planning Manager Serah Breakstone Angelo Planning Group Alice Cannon Rouyer Assistant City Manager Carolyn Reid Angelo Planning Group Ben Bryant Management Analyst Alan Snook DKS Associates Michelle Marx SERA Architects Tualatin City Council Ben Nielsen SERA Architects Mayor Lou Ogden Brendan Buckley Johnson Reid Council President Monique Beikman Brandy Steffen CH2M Hill Councilor Wade Brooksby Josh Ahmann Criterion Planners Councilor Frank Bubenik Eliot Allen Criterion Planners Councilor Joelle Davis Councilor Nancy Grimes Councilor Ed Truax Members of the Transit Working Group Attachment B - Page 3 Linking Tualatin Plan Table of Contents Introduction and Background 5 List of Figures Project Overview .....................................................................................5 Figure 1. Transit Ready Places ..............................................................5 Linking Tualatin Acceptance ...................................................................6 Figure 2. Employment and Transit Within Tualatin .................................7 Transit Conditions in Tualatin ..................................................................6 Figure 3. TriMet Service Map in the City of Tualatin ..............................8 Project Purpose ......................................................................................9 Figure 4. Transit Ready Places ..............................................................9 Project Goals and Objectives ..................................................................9 Figure 5. Linking Tualatin Process Diagram ........................................12 Public Involvement and Planning Process ............................................ 11 Figure 6. Future Implementation Actions .............................................16 Refinement and Implementation Actions 15 Figure 7. Potential Trails and Pathways ...............................................17 Refinement and Broad Concepts ..........................................................15 Figure 8. Transit Modal Plan ................................................................21 Implementation Actions .........................................................................17 Figure 9. Transit Route Map .................................................................23 Innovative Transit Solutions 19 Near-term Transit Strategy ....................................................................19 Long-term Transit Strategy ...................................................................22 Conclusion and Next Steps 26 Attachment B - Page 4 Introduction and Background employment areas and several thousand workers lack regular transit Project Overview service, Linking Tualatin focused on seven key areas in an effort to The Linking Tualatin project began as a land use planning process make them more transit ready. These “Transit Ready Places” include: to explore ways to make the city more transit ready over a 20-year ► Downtown Tualatin planning horizon or longer. The need for transit readiness originated with the Southwest Corridor Plan and its focus on transit use in a ► Bridgeport Village corridor that includes a large area of Tualatin from Bridgeport Village ► Meridian Park/Nyberg and Meridian Park Hospital on the east, west along the Tualatin River Woods and SW Tualatin-Sherwood Road to OR 99W and SW Cipole Road. The Southwest Corridor Plan integrates multiple efforts by cities in the ► Leveton/Herman Road corridor, including preparation of local land use plans such as Linking Tualatin; actions and investments that support livable communities; a ► Teton corridor refinement plan to identify transportation improvements; and a ► Pacific Financial/124th transit alternatives analysis to define the best mode and alignment of Avenue high capacity transit to serve the corridor. Future high capacity transit options include bus rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and enhanced ► Southwest Industrial Figure 1. Transit Ready Places local bus, as well as parking and congestion management strategies. As the Linking Tualatin process evolved it became a project both Tualatin residents, workers, and visitors have few options to travel by about land use change that would result in increased transit readiness bus or other transit services to the places they live, work, shop, and throughout the city’s employment areas and public investments to help play. Over 11,000 workers and over 5,000 residents lack regular transit better link people to the places they need to go via transit, particularly service within one-quarter mile of where they live and work. Of particular linking employees to their jobs, and creating linkages between Tualatin concern are east-west connections for residents and workers, travel and the rest of the region. In parallel, through partnerships developed as options during more hours of the day and night, and improved transit part of the Linking Tualatin planning process, the Transportation System connections to the rest of the Portland Metropolitan region. Because the Plan (TSP) Update process, and the Southwest Corridor Plan process, a Southwest Corridor Plan study area includes the majority of the city’s transit strategy for the city began to emerge focused on innovative transit Attachment B - Page 5 Page 5 solutions. This Linking Tualatin Final Plan tells the story of this evolution and ► TriMet Service Enhancement Study planning and implementation. provides recommendations for next steps in the implementation process. ► Southwest Corridor Planning efforts by Metro, including continued This Introduction and Background section of the Final Plan provides more coordination between the City, Metro and other regional partners. discussion of transit conditions in Tualatin, project goals and objectives, and a more detailed overview of the planning process. Subsequent sections discuss refinement and implementation actions, innovative transit Transit Conditions in Tualatin solutions, and next steps. Tualatin has very limited transit service today. It is particularly lacking in local transit service and east-west transit connections, which would help Linking Tualatin Acceptance residents and workers get to and from their homes and jobs, as well as to and from other parts of Tualatin to meet daily shopping, service or other The planning process will be complete when the City Council adopts needs. Current service within Tualatin includes: a resolution accepting this Linking Tualatin Final Plan, including acknowledging completion of key documents included in the process. ► TriMet bus lines that serve the Tualatin and Mohawk Park & Ride Acceptance of this Final Plan will not result in any immediate changes to the facilities and bus lines along SW Boones Ferry Road and to Meridian Tualatin Development Code (TDC) or additions to the Capital Improvements Park Hospital. Plan (CIP). However, it will enable future actions to implement some of ► Westside Express Service (WES) commuter rail line, with one stop in the ideas formulated in the Linking Tualatin Community Involvement Ideas Tualatin, providing connections to Tigard, Beaverton and Wilsonville Report and refined in the second phase of planning discussed in this during peak commuting times. Final