whirly gig in Cutler
seagull footprints
Signs posted at Cutler District residential community entrance
Thursday night's Meet & Greet w/ squirrel dogs (don't ask) - Ted Grund (MCA Architects), John Baymiller (Urban Designer), Ben Austin (HHPR Engineers), Al Zelinka (RBF Consulting)
Thursday night Meet & Greet
John checks out the charrette schedule...
Thursday night Meet & Greet - Karen Swirsky (left) & Angela Lazarean
Wine & name tags for the Meet & Greet
Anne Hall (N. Lincoln Co. Historical Museum Curator) gives a Cutler City History Talk at the Design Studio
Anne Hall during History Talk
The Design Studio faced the Siletz Bay, providing gorgeous views all day and all night!
Josephine Young Park - next door to the Design Studio
View from the Design Studio
I'm the first to start off the squirrel dogs...
Attempting the squirrel dogs... From left - John Baymiller, Alex, Casey (videographer), Stephan (RARE), Paul Robertson (Devils Lake Mgr), Angela (RARE), Ben (HHPR)
Um..yum?
Design Team tour of Salishan (Charrette Day 2 - Friday)
Tour of Salishan
Design Team (minus a few) at Salishan
Top (l-r): Ben Austin, John Baymiller, Brian Wethington, Stephan Lewis, Robbert Rhemrev, Suzanne Rynne, Sarah Shewell, Francesco Martinico Bottom (l-r): Alison Nelson, Karen Swirsky, Kurt Olsen, Greg Butler, Angela Lazarean, me
Design Team tour of Olivia Beach - a traditional neighborhood development project in LC (Charrette Day 2 - Friday)
Olivia Beach
Design Team tour of Olivia Beach (Charrette Day 2 - Friday)
Cutler District character
Typical cottage style home in Cutler
Brand "new" recycled bus shelter in Cutler District
Traffic speeds were big issue in the district
Luncheon with the Urban Renewal Agency & Mayor Lori Hollingsworth - Inn at Spanish Head (Charrette Day 2 - Friday)
We invited Design Team members to bring along their family - this is Ben & baby Jack
Dinner at Kernville Steak House on Siletz River (Charrette Day 2 - Friday night)
Friday night brainstorm session in Design Garage
After having the community vote on what they thought were the most important values & issues, the Design Team brainstormed on solutions - and created this poster for the community to review (Charrette Day 2 - Friday)
The Planning Dept., Public Works, and Parks Dept. meet together at stakeholders meeting with Design Team members
Stakeholder meeting with ODOT staff & City Manager, inside the Design Studio (Charrette Day 2 - Friday)
Pacific Baptist Church - formally the Cutler Community Hall - is where many public meetings & the Community Design Workshop were held; its central to the community and is still often thought of as the only main community space.
Setting up for the big Community Design Workshop (Charrette Day 3 - Saturday)
Everyone is invited... WELCOME!
Megan Smith (Director of RARE) assisting Cutler's honorary Mayor - Gladys at the Community Design Workshop (Charrette Day 3 - Saturday)
Tillamook UR thinking of doing a charrette soon too...
Community members looking over chart of issues & solutions at the Community Design Workshop (Charrette Day 3 - Saturday)
Reporter Patrick Alexander (NewsGuard) speaks with Gladys about new Neighborhood Guide.
Angela (left) - (RARE participant in Adair Village) and Ben (middle) - engineer w/ HHPR in Portland
Community Design Workshop begins as community members listen to opening presentation... (Charrette Day 3 - Saturday)
Traffic Calming table at the Community Design Workshop
My bike/ped paths & parks group at the Community Design Workshop (from left: me (green shirt), Dick Matson, Sheri Matson, Paul Robertson, Brian Wethington (team member), & Sarah Shewell (team member)
Brian draws up possible pedestrian/bike path options while Dick Matson (community member) writes up his presentation to the community
Traffic Calming group makes their presentation to the community (all presentations were done by community members, not the Design Team)
More traffic presentations
Community presentations
Gladys & Al present on new Neighborhood Guide
A relative success!
Community Design Workshop - group picture of Team & some of the community's participants
ISOCARP Executive Committee arrives! Paolo from Italy (left) and Robbert (Netherlands)
Karen w/ Ismael Fernandez (Mexico)
Working on parks, trails, bike/ped paths - Pablo (Spain), Alex, Sarah, and Ben (Charrette Day 4 - Sunday)
Al & Greg hard at work (Charrette Day 4 - Sunday)
Some team members exploring beach access points (or lack there of...)
BIG driftwood along Siletz Bay!
Walking from the Cutler District to the Taft District along Siletz Bay
Kite board left on the driftwood at Siletz Bay
Large driftwood in the Siletz Bay
Stephan lost in thought
Brian Wethington (Viridian Environmental Design) - our wonderful landscape architect
Jennifer Danziger (David Evans & Assoc. - Traffic Engineer) works on the Hwy 101 concept drawings
Ismael Fernandez, from Mexico, (left) speaks with Francesco Martinico (Italy) & Robbert Rhemrev (Netherlands)
John works on the beach access drawings
Kurt teaches Manfred (Austria) how to clean a crab
Jim (Australia), Al Zelinka & Jennifer Danziger cleaning crab
Pierre (Belgium) & Zeynep (Turkey) watch the crab cleaning process...
Kurt, Jim Coleman (Australia) & Ben
First night w/ ISOCARP members - still working late on Sunday night (Charrette Day 4)
Ben makes presentation to Team & ISOCARP (Charrette Day 4 - Sunday)
John gives his presentation to Team & ISOCARP complete with renderings (Stephan & I below)
Robbert (Netherlands), Karen Swirsky (David Evans & Assoc), Ben Austin (HHPR), Francesco (Italy) discuss Hwy 101 issues...
ISOCARP members share with us their thoughts... Jim from Australia (covering his face) cracks us all up!
The Design Garage - open almost 15 hrs/day so that the public could come by at any time during the charrette and see designs as they were being created.
Design Garage...Naturally: A community open house (Charrette Day 4 - Sunday)
RARE Participants - Angela, Alex, Stephan, Sarah, Greg -
Angela working hard to finish before the end... (Charrette Day 5 - Monday)
Mayor Lori Hollingsworth talks with Pierre (left) & Paolo at the Urban Renewal Agency Dinner (Charrette Day 5 - Monday night)
Urban Renewal Agency Dinner just before the big presentation (Charrette Day 5 - Monday night!)
Cutler District Community Celebration - all drawings, ideas, narratives are displayed for the public to view after the big Urban Renewal presentation (Charrette Day 5 - Monday night)
Community Celebration (Charrette Day 5 - Monday night)
Design Team, ISOCARP Members at final Community Celebration (Charrette Day 5 - Monday evening)
Community Celebration
Finally time to relax! I'm picking my colors for my first glass float! (Charrette Day 6 - Tuesday)
Learning to twist the glass
Spinning my float...and trying not to get too hot!
Glass float in progress
Glass being pulled out
Angela working on her float...
Angela shaping her float
Sandy showing Ben all of the different things that you can make -
Ben heating up his glass
Sarah picks colors
Sarah's float is beautiful!!
Sarah blowing her glass float
Alison twisting designs into her float
Sandy Gruber (GIS Coordinator) shapes her float
