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Residents urge ‘civic corridor’ and Madison landing as city weighs Madison Avenue investments

2983496 · March 20, 2025
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Two community speakers asked the City Council and Budget Commission to expand Madison Avenue plans beyond staff-support facilities, suggesting a civic corridor and a modest waterfront landing funded by transient lodging tax revenues tied to a private development.

Two residents urged Corvallis officials to expand the city’s Madison Avenue civic campus plan into a broader civic corridor and to consider building a modest overlook or landing at the end of Madison Avenue, citing potential transient lodging tax revenue from a private waterfront project.

Rob Lancaster, a South Corvallis resident, told the joint City Council and Budget Commission meeting the city should not limit civic design to “modest and cost effective improvements” and urged officials to “dream…

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