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DO WE HAVE ISSUES? YOU BET!
THE BUS BARN IS NOT DEAD!
TRAFFIC AND ELMONICA EXPANSION
TRANSIT PLANNING
URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY EXPANSION
PRESERVING OPEN SPACE IN OUR NAC
NEIGHBORHOOD PROPERTY VALUES
THOUSANDS OF NEW RESIDENTS COMING
1. BUS BARN - Should the Beaverton School District (BSD) place a bus transport and maintenance facility for 200 buses across the street from the Five Oaks Middle School playground? The NAC is vehemently against this project for the following reasons: localized air pollution affecting our children's health, traffic congestion, safety, noise, and water pollution to Willow Creek. The BSD air pollution reports contained falsified data that was exposed during the appeal to the City.
In June 2002, Beaverton City Council denied the School District's application based on traffic concerns. Since that decision the BSD, our NAC and the Concerned Citizens of Beaverton (made up of NAC residents) have appealed this decision to the State Land Use Board of Appeals pending mediation. Your NAC has been waiting to mediate with the BSD since the day after the City Council decision. It now appears that the BSD is willing to meet sometime in October, 2002. For complete information on this project please see the website at www.busyard.homestead.com and our NAC website at www.5oaks3creek.homestead.com.
Testimony opposed to locating the bus barn next to the playgrounds came from many organizations including the American Lung Association, OHSU Department of Environmental Toxicology, Talbott Associates Incorporated Consulting Engineers and approximately 50 Beaverton Pediatricians, pediatric nurses and staff. The BSD and BSD Board repeatedly refused to meet with these or any other groups to discuss health concerns of our children. No explanation was ever given by the Board for refusing to consider children's health issues in this project.
2. Your NAC has been working diligently to prevent building a five lane 45 mph truck route next to Elmonica Elementary School and all the problems that will bring to the school and the neighborhood. Elmonica, Beaver Acres and Aloha Park Elementary Schools are all scheduled to be remodeled into 1100+ student schools. They will become the three largest elementary schools in the state and are needed due to inadequate planning for our community's rapid growth. On the picture on page one Plan 1 routing is proposed by Washington County, Plan 2 by the BSD and Plan 5 by our NAC. We already have five lane 158th and 185th Avenues, we don't need a five lane 173rd Avenue splitting the neighborhoods and impacting Elmonica Elementary School.
3. Thousands of people are moving into the Elmonica Station Area. No land is being set aside for new schools and there is no "Oreneco Station" master plan for this area. As a result, the area is being developed with poor planning, no parking or services . As an example, two and three bedroom townhouses are planned that have only one parking space per unit and no guest parking.
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