City of Vancouver Dates to Remember

[Waterbuffalo]

Not sure if this is to be stickied but this is nice dates one needs to remember:

Source City of Vancouver City Council Workshop on May 11, 2008 (Evergreen School board joins later.)

*May 11th Initial briefing and discussion on what the staff is recommending (Please see full video for all the information. Not a lot of questions but a lot of information.)

*June 2nd 2 hour Columbia River Crossing at a city council workshop. Will take two full hours. So some people may feel the interest to attend and make their presence known to the council. Probably no public testimony will be taken at that time but its always good to have our friends and neighbors make the council feel welcome with everyone's presence there.

This will be a full review of the City Staff's LPA recommendation and recommended project mitigations...

*June 23rd Concurrence regarding City LPA recommendations. Give direction to the Mayor for the June 24th CRC task Force meeting? Please check with CRCP staff to make sure this is the correct date that was listed on the slide.

*June 30th Public hearing 1 or 2 days before the final close of the public testimony and written data may be submitted to the CRCP DEIS process. So if your ***REALLY*** needing to sound off, this might be the place to waste your standard three minutes allowed by the Council to speak on a subject.

*July 7th Resolution adopting City LPA recommendation.


You may find more data and the full explanation of this side at 30 minute level on this weeks Concil Workshop session.

You can find it located here:

http://www.cityofvancouver.us/cvtv/cvtvindex.asp?catID=3&folderID=1793

[Waterbuffalo]

There is a light rail simulation that was presented by the CRCP to the City council.

[Waterbuffalo]

Came video source. Copied off another power point.. Matt Ransom speaking of the dates of LPA:

LPA actions:

June 24 CRC Task Force this will be the Mayors day to make the final position on what the City of Vancouver LPA and mitigations will. I do expect at this meeting for the all 39 or 40 congregants to do an LPA vote here.

(**June 30, The City will have a public testimony section here and will be taking testimony on this subject.)

July 1st Final day of comment period on the DEIS.

July 7th City of Vancouver votes on the LPA

July 8th C-tran Board votes on LPA.

July 9th City of Portland votes on the LPA. Tri-met board also votes on this day on the LPA.

July 10th J-Pact will vote on the LPA.

July 17th Metro votes on the LPA.

July 22nd RTC will be voting on the LPA.

[Waterbuffalo]

This video is near 50 minutes long and is higly recommended to watch if your interested in a lot of information and what's going on.

I am highly suggeting that the regulars and lurkers please view the video and provide your comments on the threads of Clarblog. Nothing is more boring than writing and pleading prose....

[Chief]

LPA is the Locally Preferred Alternative for the Columbia Crossing Project, for the uninitiated...

Good post WB!

[Waterbuffalo]

:-) Chief, I think you'll love this hour of entertainment. Especially Tim's comments about the Drone-ons with letters to the editor and is the staff reaching out to those people to see if they will passing out factual information.

What I would like to say to Tim's comments, he should know what the local media thinks of this project and how selectively they are using their position to undermine it for their own gratitifaction. It should have been aparrent a long time ago.

There was a lot more really good information slides and I am asking every one who might even have the slightest interest in this subject to please watch the video. The video gives a heck of a lot of information and previous process review of CRCP that I think I and Chief do know but there is a lot more that even I didn't know.

I've listed some Power point stuff that I think is important to the citizens to be aware of with this bridge. This bridge could be a 50 or 100 year project. And there is only 30 or 45 days left to comment on this project.

So if your a City of Vancouver or Clark County resident, please watch the video.

And don't forget to watch the 15 mph horse and buggy show that comes up in the first third of the video from CVTV. :-)