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| + | == Fairview residents pitch plan to reshape Gambell corridor == | ||
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| + | <html>A design visualization shows what a renovated Gambell Street would look like if local residents and businesses can gain funding for the project. The concept would reduce the street from four lanes to three, widen sidewalks, bury power lines and incentivize in-fill for a city running out of buildable land. Rendering/Courtesy/Fairview Business Association | ||
| + | If the residents of Anchorage s Fairview neighborhood have their way, the Gambell Street portion of the Seward Highway in Anchorage will be getting an extreme makeover in the coming years. | ||
| + | The Fairview Business Association, or FBA, unveiled its plans for renovating the Gambell Street corridor from Third Avenue to 20th Avenue at Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan s June 12 weekly press conference. | ||
| + | Over the year s we ve done a lot of improvement to (Fairview), but there s a lot more work to be done, Sullivan said. | ||
| + | FBA Executive Director and long-time Fairview resident Paul Fuhs said redesigning Gambell Street is the first step of an overall economic revitalization plan for the community. | ||
| + | (Gambell) is a four-lane road now. We want to make it three lanes with appropriate turn lanes at the intersections, Fuhs said. | ||
| + | Under the FBA plan, major reconstruction would be done in 2015. The work would be done in conjunction with a $7 million Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities resurfacing project slated for the same stretch of road. | ||
| + | Fuhs said FBA would be looking for a legislative appropriation of about $10 million more to finish the project. | ||
| + | The design concept has been in the works for more than a year, he said. FBA received a $200,000 grant from the state Legislature in 2012 to study traffic flow and draft a design concept. Gambell Street traffic was monitored continuously over a two-week period this spring, which included a graduation ceremony at Sullivan Arena, Fuhs said. It was determined Gambell could handle a lane reduction at current traffic levels. | ||
| + | Officials with DOT will now begin reviewing the plan to make sure it is suitable for future scenarios, DOT engineer Ken Morton said. | ||
| + | Certainly (FBA) has made the case that the design works acceptably for current traffic, Morton said. Will it work with (the Knik Arm bridge) in place? Will it work with Midtown congestion relief in place? I don t believe that analysis has been done. | ||
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| + | The right-of-way space made available by removing a lane of traffic would be used to widen the six-foot sidewalks to nine feet and add a 3.5-foot space for snow accumulation in winter on both sides of the street, according to the plan. The snow space would also act as a buffer between automobile and pedestrian traffic, Fuhs said. | ||
| + | Gambell Street s current configuration is four lanes of traffic with sidewalks directly adjacent to the roadway. | ||
| + | Additionally, Fuhs said the hope is to bury electrical lines running along the street during the road reconstruction. He said there are electrical poles now located in the middle of the sidewalk that are safety hazards for cars and pedestrians and don t comply with federal Americans with Disabilities Act standards. | ||
| + | City-owned Municipal Light and Power, which manages the Fairview power grid, has a fund for such work. | ||
| + | Fuhs added that the plan has the support of the Fairview Community Council as well. | ||
| + | While the new road design would make walking along Gambell Street more appealing, Fuhs said FBA hopes to work with the Municipality of Anchorage and the state on providing incentives for business development in the Fairview community. | ||
| + | There isn t a lot of developable land in the city, and this area is ready for in-fill, he said. | ||
| + | FBA members want to make Fairview an extension of downtown, Fuhs said. | ||
| + | The development plan calls for street-level commercial properties with second- and third-floor apartments. House Bill 50, which allows Alaska Housing Finance Corp. to finance combination commercial and residential properties and was signed by Gov. Sean Parnell June 26, helps advance the plan, Fuhs said. | ||
| + | A lot of our businesses here say that their employees have a hard time finding affordable housing, he said. | ||
| + | Fuhs said to further spark development, FBA will be working with the municipal Community Development Authority on possible property tax abatements for private developers in Fairview that have to pay for public utility infrastructure work on their property. Fuhs, a former mayor of Dutch Harbor, said that city forgave property taxes until the utility work was paid off and the program was well received by local businesses. | ||
| + | The tax abatement zone would be between Gambell Street and Ingra Street to the east. | ||
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| + | He said state Sen. Johnny Ellis, who represents the Fairview neighborhood, supports the concept. | ||
| + | Sullivan said community action is vital to improving the health of a city. | ||
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| + | == More humpback whales visit Washington state waters == | ||
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| + | <html>In this May 25 photo provided by the Pacific Whale Watch Association, a humpback whale breaches into view of a tour boat in the San Juan Channel near Friday Harbor, Wash. AP Photo/Justine Buckmaster/Pacific Whale Watch Association | ||
| + | June 20, 2013 | ||
| + | SEATTLE (AP) The video shows an exceptional wildlife sighting for a big city: A humpback whale surfaces just yards from Seattle s busy waterfront at twilight. The city s port cranes, Ferris wheel and car headlights glow in the background, and a ferry cruises by while the giant tail disappears back into the Puget Sound. | ||
| + | Whale watchers say the recording, shot in early May and confirmed by the conservationist group Orca Network, highlights an increase in humpback sightings in the Puget Sound and Strait of Juan de Fuca. | ||
| + | Fifteen years ago, it was unheard of, said Brian Goodremont, who is the president of the Pacific Whale Watch Association and runs San Juan Outfitters. Now they ve become a regular sighting in spring and fall. | ||
| + | The ocean mammals can grow to be 50 feet long and weigh up to 40 tons. They visit Washington waters in the spring and fall as they migrate from southern Pacific winter waters to summer feeding spots off Alaska. | ||
| + | Decades ago, humpbacks visiting inland waters were numerous enough that whaling operations were based in the northern Puget Sound. Hundreds of the animals were slaughtered, said Cascadia Research Collective s baleen whale researcher John Calambokidis. | ||
| + | It hasn t quite returned to the numbers from the 1800s, Calambokidis said. | ||
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| + | The whales that make the north Pacific Ocean their home are making a comeback, and conservationists say the increased sightings are proof that their efforts are working. | ||
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| + | Experts believe there could be more than 22,000 humpbacks in the greater northern Pacific Ocean, up from about 1,500 in the 1960s when whale hunting was banned in the U.S. | ||
| + | The whales visiting Washington waters mostly stick to the open ocean, about 20 miles offshore at least, or concentrate at the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to feed, but some, like the animal that visited Seattle, wander farther in. | ||
| + | Anne Hall, a Canadian marine zoologist advising the Pacific Whale Watch Association, says humpback mothers have been seen bringing their young to inland waters, suggesting the Puget Sound is again providing a nursery habitat function. | ||
| + | The mothers seem to feel this is a safe place to take the calves, Hall said. There appears to be plenty of food for her to sustain herself, while also weaning her baby, teaching it how to feed. | ||
| + | Over the spring, whale watchers were spotting humpbacks almost daily in the north Puget Sound, providing the possibility that whale watching tours in the future could include humpbacks sightings as part of their regular offerings. | ||
| + | It s becoming a part of what we do, Goodremont said. As those sightings of humpback become a little more reliable, it kind of becomes a part of what our industry does. | ||
| + | Orca Network president Howard Garrett says that as long as whale watching tours continue to be respectful of the animals, seeing humpbacks added to the tours is very positive. | ||
| + | It s a good thing for people to experience the whales up close, Garrett said. They become advocates. | ||
| + | Whale watching in the Puget Sound is better known for orcas, which both live in the sound or visit temporarily. Gray whales could be considered the next big visitors to the area. Other whales, such as the minke and fin, can be seen in Washington waters. | ||
| + | Humpbacks have been reported to go as far south as Tacoma and the Hood Canal. | ||
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