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Lincoln City Council meetings scheduled:

📅Tuesday, October 20th, 2026 – work session

🕕 6:00 PM

📍 City Hall Council Chambers

Agenda Oct 20th- work session

🚧 HIGHWAY 101 THROUGH TAFT — PROPOSED CHANGES UNDER REVIEW

Something new on my radar!

The City of Lincoln City has scheduled a work session for Tuesday, October 20, at 6:00 PM to discuss possible changes to Highway 101 through Taft.

The proposals involve reconfiguring Highway 101 between SW Beach Avenue and Schooner Creek Bridge, including reducing vehicle travel lanes, adding buffered bicycle lanes, improving pedestrian crossings, and creating additional parking.

Two options are being considered for the section north of SW 48th Street:

🚗 Option 1: Two northbound travel lanes, one southbound travel lane, and a center turn lane.

🚗 Option 2: One travel lane in each direction, with a center turn lane.

Both options would include buffered bicycle lanes and pedestrian improvements. South of SW 48th Street, the preliminary design also proposes one travel lane in each direction.

These are preliminary proposals. No final design has been approved.

While reviewing the 30-page agenda package, I noticed a few discrepancies:

📌 Page 1 vs. Page 3: The work session is scheduled for October 20, but the staff report lists October 26 as the meeting date.

📌 Page 21 vs. Page 27: The public engagement period has two different ending dates. One lists November 23, while the other lists November 25.

📌 Page 6: The Public Engagement Strategies section contains an editing error stating, "Error! Reference source not found."

These may simply be clerical errors, but accurate information matters, especially when it comes to opportunities for public participation.

Here's when the public can get involved:

📅 October 26 — Online open house and survey scheduled to begin.

📅 October 30, 11 AM–3 PM — In-person community outreach at The Pines Dine.

The study is intended to gather community feedback before the design concepts are finalized and cost estimates are prepared.

I have some questions of my own.

How would reducing travel lanes affect summer tourism traffic, emergency evacuations, local businesses, freight deliveries, and everyday commuters?

And what would the estimated cost be?

Improving pedestrian and bicycle safety is important, but so is understanding how proposed changes could affect everyone who relies on Highway 101.

One other thing worth mentioning: According to the agenda, the October 20 work session will not be livestreamed. The city plans to post a recording afterward.

What are your thoughts about potentially reducing travel lanes through Taft?

Info@lincolncityconnect.com

I'll be following this project as it moves forward.

You can review the agenda package here:
https://www.lincolncityor.gov/publicmeetings

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Lincoln City Urban Renewal meeting scheduled:

📅 Monday, September 28th, 2026

🕕 5:00 PM

📍 City Hall Council Chambers

Agenda September 28th

🏛️ LINCOLN CITY COUNCIL/ URBAN RENEWAL

Monday, September 28th, 2026, | 5:00 PM
City Hall — 3rd Floor Council Chambers

Sept. 28 Joint Council/Urban Renewal Agency Meeting

The meeting starts at 5:00 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28 at City Hall. Public comment is available in person, by email, or remotely with advance arrangements.

Neighborhood Signs

Explore Lincoln City plans to update the existing neighborhood signs around town while keeping their original design. The work includes adding the City logo, adding a Roads End neighborhood sign, sprucing up the existing signs and setting up regular maintenance.

The listed cost is $8,758, and staff estimates the project will take about 6 months to a year. This item is informational only — no vote is requested.

Lincoln 44 — Annexation Process

Council and the Urban Renewal Agency will consider whether to begin annexation proceedings for the approximately 44-acre Lincoln 44 property.

The property was purchased by the Urban Renewal Agency in July and is currently outside city limits but inside the Urban Growth Boundary. Staff says one principal reason for purchasing it was to preserve land for a future roadway connection between SE 23rd Drive and SE 32nd Street.

Other possible future uses listed in the packet include:

Water storage
Possible future City Hall
Housing
Education or museum-type uses

Those ideas are described as preliminary. Starting annexation would not approve development, construction or a zoning change. The property would go through a Type IV process involving staff work, public notice, Planning Commission review and another Council decision later.

There will also be costs for surveying, legal descriptions, fiscal/service analysis and public notice. Staff says existing appropriations will be used where possible, with additional budget authorization requested later if necessary.

Baldy Creek / Eagles Lodge Bank Stabilization

The Urban Renewal Agency is being asked to approve Change Order #5 for Apex Companies for additional design, engineering and permitting work.

The change order is $27,869, bringing the total Apex design/engineering/permitting contract to $199,974.

The packet says additional work was needed because of wetland mitigation comments from the Oregon Department of State Lands, additional reports requested by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other permitting coordination.

Separate Baldy Creek-related work already completed totals another $180,763 as of Aug. 13, including wetland work, surveys, hazard-tree removal, ivy abatement, construction-management assistance and permit fees. Future construction and three years of required post-construction monitoring are still listed as unknown costs.

Hostetler Park Sewer Easement

The Urban Renewal Agency will also consider granting the City a utility easement across Hostetler Park for about 100 feet of sanitary sewer line.

The larger sewer project would replace about 2,000 feet of 58-year-old asbestos-concrete sewer pipe with 18-inch PVC pipe. The existing line crosses wetlands and passes under Devils Lake and is identified as a source of water infiltration into the sanitary sewer system.

Construction is planned for spring 2027. Surveying, easement preparation and recording costs will come from the City's Sewer Capital Fund.

The easement itself is being conveyed for $0 consideration between the Urban Renewal Agency and the City.