Beavercreek Community
Planning Organization (BCPO) Writes Letter to Officials
Regarding Over Development
and Public Safety
Last month we shared with you the business transacted at the Beavercreek CPO. This is the letter that was sent to the Clackamas County Commission and Alice Norris, Mayor of Oregon City, voicing the CPOs concerns. The Editor
17 October 2003
Clackamas County Board of County Commissioners
906 Main St.
Oregon City, OR 97045
RE: Concurrency in Beavercreek
Dear Board of County Commissioners:
At our September 2003 meeting, the Beavercreek CPO voted unanimously to send a letter to the Clackamas County Board of County Commissioners with a copy to the Oregon City Mayor to let you know the CPO's concerns about the inadequacy of traffic infrastructure to handle traffic created by new and planned development in the corridor feeding Beavercreek Road and Highway 213 -- that is the inadequacy of traffic infrastructure to handle development originating and planned to originate in both Oregon City and the County. As a result, we in Beavercreek are seeing increasing traffic backups, dangerous situations, and impacts on our neighborhoods.
We are aware of the present improvements being done to the intersection of Highway 213 and Beavercreek Road; however, this improvement does not address the inadequacy of the rest of the area's road system. Some examples of other impacts and expected impacts of new and planned development on area traffic are:
(1) The level of service on area roads continues to decrease.
(2) The Oregon City High School is now occupied by about two thousand new students and staff without any increase in the capacity of Beavercreek Road.
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