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Newberg River Street ad hoc committee weighs reconstruction options, funding and state bikeway requirement
Summary
Committee members and residents heard engineers explain that ORS 366.514 usually requires adding a bicycle facility for full-depth roadway reconstructions, discussed three 10%-level design options and funding (about $10 million in NURA+SDC funds), and debated whether to authorize a $50,000 right-of-way survey before choosing a concept.
The Newberg River Street Ad Hoc Committee met to review three preliminary design options for River Street, hear how state bikeway law applies to full‑reconstruction projects, and discuss likely impacts to trees, private yards and the city budget.
City manager Will Worthy and staff framed the project within earlier planning work — the transportation system plan, the riverfront master plan and the NURA (tax increment) list — saying those processes identified River Street as a key downtown connector and that about $10 million is currently banked for the corridor: “about a maximum of $6,000,000” from NURA tax increment financing and “about a maximum of $4,000,000” from system development charge funds, Worthy said.
Transportation staff explained the state requirement that triggered much of the committee’s technical discussion. The project’s engineer summarized Oregon statute and ODOT guidance and said full‑depth reconstruction typically obliges the agency to…
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