On behalf of the Imagine Slatterly Leadership team I would like to thank everyone for attending the Draft Vision Plan open house at Hawthorne Education Center and for all the comments on the website, or via email. We will be taking all of the comments into consideration, and will make changes based on the best interest of the entire neighborhood. The open comment period is now closed. Our next step is taking the Vision Plan to the Planning Department for review and comment. Below is a visual of the process we will be following:
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Saturday Sept. 17, residents of Slatterly Park Neighborhood, the Imagine Slatterly Leadership Council, City representatives, and facilitators from the Rochester Area Foundation met at the Hawthorne Education Center to discuss the draft vision plan for the Slatterly Park Neighborhood.
There are five separate sections of the vision plan:
1) Summary
2) Neighborhood Mobility
3) Public Realm
4) Homes, Yards, Marketplaces
5) Land Use
We welcome all feedback: your comments and questions will help shape the vision plan, which will help to shape the future of Slatterly Park Neighborhood.
1. I am concerned about re-working the drop off site at Riverside school to connect to 4th Street SE. If 5th AVE SE goes through to 4th street, even indirectly, I feel it would make my street a lot busier with car traffic than it already is. (I live on 5th AVE SE.) Aside from picking up children from school, people would use the area to get to and from the SA gas station. There is already a huge problem of litter from the gas station on my block and I think it would only get worse. Perhaps installing public garbage cans on corners, maintained by the city or perhaps a volunteer group of neighbors would help with the litter problem from the gas station.
2. What exactly is a bike “sharrow” and how will having one of them on my street impact my existing sidewalk, yard, boulevard?
Thanks for your note, and for asking good questions, well take your comments about the Riverside Drop off area back to the Imagine Slatterly Leadership for review, here is an answer to your question about sharrows:
1. A bike sharrow is a street that is designated as a bike friendly street, and designated bike route. There would be a bicylce marking on the street, which inform vehicles that cars share the right of way with bicycles. There are no marked bicylce lanes, and it does not impact sidewalks or boulevards.
It sounds great having a bike lane on 6th street SE all the way down to 3rd Ave. SE, but that would require a ONE WAY road running from east to west on 6th SE. It can be safe and would alliviate the awfull trafic in front of Riverside. Think: SAVE and ENVIRONMENTAL friendly!!!
Thanks for your note Enya, I think what is proposed is a bike sharrow, and not bike lanes on 6th Street SE. A sharrow means that the street is designated as a bike route, with bicycle markings, but the road is shared by bicycles and cars in both directions. If you have any other ideas you would like to share to improve the neighborhood, please share them.
Wayne
Slatterly Park president
I’m excited by the proposed trail extensions on the east side of broadway and south of the creek and north of 6th St SE. These areas seem isolated and these projects would make them more accessible. I also like the in-fill development ideas for the parking lots at Cub and Kmart. These are very unfriendly areas right now and this would help. Pedestrian access to Cub from the neighborhood could be improved alot too. Proper sidewalks along 12th ST SE and better access from the Park into Cub would make a world of difference.
I’m interested in seeing a general design for the proposed extension of 11 Ave to 10 St. SE and 9 1/2 St. SE. Has there been a traffic analysis as to what changes in traffic patterns would result?
I’d also like to bring up the “forrest thinning” in Slatterly Park. The tree cutting that occurred there earlier this summer has been overwhelmingly negative in my opinion. The cutting has left that side of the park looking like an abandoned industrial lot and exposed the park to increased wind and light pollution. “Thinning” the trees on the east side of the river in the same manner would give us all a great view of the dumpsters and drab cinder block walls behind Cub. I’m sorry, but I can’t understand why anyone would think this is a good idea. Perhaps I don’t understand the motivation involved?