Project Overview
This Local Transportation Infrastructure Charge (LTIC) project will improve conditions for walking and driving on SW Galeburn between SW Capitol Highway and SW 41st Ave. PBOT will pave the gravel street, construct a south side sidewalk, and construct a safer walking shoulder.
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What’s Happening Now?
(Updated Dec 2023)
The design team is working on 60% Design. The project budget was created in 2017 and cuts to the design are required due to present-day construction inflation costs. The design update will convert all sidewalk that was in the 30% design to protected asphalt shoulder.
Project Background
In 2016 City Council adopted the Local Transportation Infrastructure Charge (LTIC), a fee that developers pay along unimproved streets in single-family zoning areas as an alternative to constructing sidewalks. Council then directed PBOT staff to develop an investment strategy for these funds. Using a methodology that included equity, effectiveness and efficiency, staff developed and Council adopted a strategy to invest collected LTIC funds in three areas: Cully in northeast Portland, Division-Midway in outer southeast Portland, and the Tryon-Stephens headwaters area in southwest Portland. These three areas had high needs in terms of unimproved streets that serve as important routes to neighborhood destinations, and underserved populations including high proportions of people of color, people with lower incomes, and people that rent their homes. The three areas also had neighborhood street plans adopted by City Council, identifying locations for investment.
In the Tryon Creek and Stephens Creek watersheds of southwest Portland, the goal of the project is to strategically invest in streets that lead to important destinations such parks, schools, and frequent transit lines, and that have stormwater issues such as erosion and flooding that need to be addressed. In addition, investment in the West Portland Park neighborhood is a commitment to equity in one of the most diverse areas of southwest Portland.
Project Timeline
Topographic survey: 2021 - 2022
Design engineering: March 2023 - Jan 2025
Public Involvement: July- Sep 2023. Jan 2024.
Construction: Early 2025
Public Involvement
2023
- July
- Mailed letters to two homeowners who owned right-of-way on SW Galeburn and would need to coordinate with PBOT Right-of-way
Project Funding
$1,125,000
Most project funding comes from LTIC as described above. Other funding on the project includes:
- General Fund: Discretionary city funds authorized by City Council, under the “Up Out of the Mud” initiative
- Portland Bureau of Environmental Services: PBOT is in a partnership with BES due to the need to upgrade stormwater management infrastructure in the project area