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College Station Development Concerns
College Station
SE corner Mud Bay Road & Evergreen Parkway approx 60
acres
259 single family units, 90 multi family units, village green, space for
park and trails.
A map of this development is shown at the bottom of this page
* March 2006 *
The College Station hearing is finally scheduled for
Monday March 6th, 10:00 am, at the Courthouse. This is for the full 382
residential units, plus 7,000 square feet of commercial space.
* November 2004 *
The board was pleased to meet with with Mr. Robert Armstrong, Vice President of Barghausen Consulting Engineers, Inc., and Ms. Gayle Zeller, Associate
Planner of Thurston County Development Services to discuss the College Station development.
Following is some information from our discussion:
- The company developing College Station is Pageantry Communities,
based in Kent, Wa. and Las Vegas, Nv.
- The developers and the county have had several pre-submission
conferences
- The final plan submission may be made before the 2004 year end
- 100% of the storm-water run-off will be routed to the drainage ponds
- The drainage ponds will be heavily landscaped, with walkways.
These ponds are considered to be part of the required "open space"
- Thurston County has not yet adopted a low impact code
- The project is in the Urban Growth Area
- This is the first neighborhood village zoned development in the City
of Olympia
- The "Build Out" time for the project is estimated to be 5 years.
If the plans are approved in Dec. 2005,
the construction would begin in April
2006
and continue until completed in 2010.
- Community meetings about the plan will be held, probably in December
2005
* October 2004 * from the Cooper Point Assn.
Newsletter
Mud Bay Road on Olympia’s west side has been
receiving quite a makeover the last several years. Cooper Point residents
will know about the Grass Lake Village 130+ lot residential complex across
from Yauger Way, as well as the expansion of a section of the roadway from
two to four lanes. Residents should also be aware of a new development (Bayhill)
of some 185 homes and apartments taking shape east of Kaiser Road. Now comes
a third large residential development project, known as College Station,
which will provide new choices for residency while almost certainly
impacting the surrounding community.
Located on the southeast corner of Mud Bay Road
and Evergreen Parkway, College Station comprises 353 new single family and
multi-family dwellings on 58.3 acres. Included in the project is a
“boulevard” entry leading directly to a roundabout surrounded by a Village
Green (1.58 acres of open space). The northwest corner of the site is
designated ‘mixed use’ (over 17,000 square feet of office and retail uses).
Along the northern portion of the project site is a 7.48-acre “regional”
drainage facility consisting of a large stormwater detention pond and wet
pond. This facility abuts a City-owned 1.35 acre drainage property
(currently under construction), which was long intended as a large-scale
drainage facility for the area.
The development will be accessed via entries at
Mud Bay Road and Kaiser Road (known as ‘collector’ streets). Per City of
Olympia standards local access streets within the development will include
on each side 12.5-foot wide lanes, 8-foot wide planter strips and 5-foot
wide sidewalks.
Mud Bay Road will continue to be transformed,
expanding in another phase (from Kaiser Road to Evergreen Parkway) to a
5-lane thoroughfare, with 10-foot wide planter strips and 6-foot wide
sidewalks. The project will build the half-street frontage improvements
along the project frontage of Mud Bay Road, with the rest as yet to be
funded by the County.
The CPA Board has been interested in potential
impacts this project may bring - specifically stormwater runoff and traffic.
Traffic already backs up to the intersection with Evergreen Parkway. How
soon after project completion will Mud Bay Road be expanded? Substantial
flooding of the roadway has occurred at least once from the drainage
facility at nearby Westwood Baptist Church. Will drainage proposed for this
project truly be adequate? How will noise and light from the project impact
the surrounding area?
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