A projected nine lot division in South Beaverton with a cut through street will reduce livability, increase traffic and danger to families that use Meadow Waye Park. We have an update on this development and a call to action as of December 2019.

Meadow Waye Park is a small, popular park for small children in Beaverton. A projected nine lot division with a cut through street will reduce livability, increase traffic and danger to children and families that use the park. The park has limited parking as it is, with a few spots along SW Bluebell Street and more along SW Davis. These spots are beyond capacity during even small events at the park. The new street will not be able to support on street parking, and create a highly complex and potentially dangerous intersection at SW Bluebell Street and SW Lancewood Street.

Consistency and Safety is Not Guaranteed by City of Beaverton

Neighbors met with the City of Beaverton planners and learned that the developer had originally submitted a plan that included small culdesacs and not a through street. However unspecified officials with the city did not like that and wanted a full through street. The planners for the most part reiterated that they cannot force the developer to add a full width street because of legal limits on how much a municipality can take from a property. That is, a new street can be added even though all connecting streets are much wider.

See the neighborhood walk around to see current streets, the park and the proposed road in comparison. Neighbors would prefer that the number of new homes would be limited to five and if a road is added, it is wide enough to allow parking and traffic, and security gated at one end to reduce traffic (but allowing access for emergency vehicles). Some even preferred the rejected culdesac plan originally proposed by the developer since that would mean less traffic.

It was alarming to those present at the meeting with the city planners that the city has no plans yet to address the complexity and danger of the new intersection, especially considering that many small children regularly use the park.

Beaverton City Planning Update

The city of Beaverton has issued an update on the development in PDF format. You can download it at the link.

Download January 2, 2020 Update PDF

What You Can Do

The January 16, 2020 South Beaverton NAC Meeting was canceled.  The more people that are there to show support and ask questions the more likely the developer is to take these issues seriously and help us reach a compromise.

Map of the Proposed Development

Earlier in 2019, neighbors began to notice real estate advertisements for the lot located 13275 SW DAVIES RD, which is the remaining farm property once owned by the respected Homer and Nancy Speer. The map displayed indicates a nine lot division with a narrow road where a single home and external building currently exist. A virtually identical update to this was later submitted to the City of Beaverton by Riverside Homes for the Southridge Park development.

Original Rendering in Advertisement	Aerial Photograph with Approximate Overlay of Development