PORT ANGELES — Projects by the city of Port Angeles abound in 2011, including the planning stages for logging and redevelopment of Lincoln Park in cooperation with the Port of Port Angeles.
The year is packed full of projects for City Hall, City Manager Kent Myers told a Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce audience Monday.
Although work on Lincoln Park — which will include the removal of most of its tall fir trees — will not begin until 2012, all of the planning will happen in 2011, Myers said.
That will include a host of public meetings in which people can weigh in on how to best organize the park, he said.
“Those dates are not yet set,” he said.
“We are still working to identify a consultant who has done this sort of thing before, and then we will have some meetings to announce.”
Lincoln Park sits squarely in the landing zone for the port-owned William R. Fairchild International Airport, which means that many airplanes — including Kenmore airline flights — must fly around to land from the west during poor weather conditions.
This year, the city will decide how the park will be configured.
“Hopefully, we can plant some lower canopy trees,” Myers said.
Also in Lincoln Park, a group hoping to construct an off-leash dog park is moving forward with plans and fundraising, Myers said.
Port Angeles’s two Rotary Clubs will build the park.
Representatives of Port Angeles Rotary and Nor’wester Rotary will meet Thursday at 6 p.m., at the Port Angeles Senior Center, 328 E. Seventh St., to discuss organization and fundraising for the park that will be located in the area of the former campground.
Other City Hall projects outlined at Monday’s Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant include:
• Fire agency merger.
In the upcoming weeks, the City Council will decide whether to create a regional fire authority — which would merge the city’s Port Angeles Fire Department with Clallam County Fire District No. 2, which covers unincorporated areas outside the city limit.
• Completion of the Waterfront Improvement Plan and beginning of the construction phase.
The plan is to redevelop the areas of the waterfront, particularly Railroad Avenue and the so-called Oak Street property, to make them more friendly to visitors, more attractive and more functional.
• Wayfinding signs.
New directional signs will be installed throughout town. The city has budgeted $225,000 for the signs.
The City Council in December approved the design of the signs, which consist of light-green slats topped by a depiction of a tribal canoe pulling past the Olympic Mountains.
The signs were designed by AECOM of Orlando, Fla.
Walkable and Livable Communities Institute of Port Townsend is supervising the company, which is also designing two entryway monument signs, Myers said.
• Controlling sewer overflows.
The combined sewer overflow project should begin work this year as well.
The approximately $40 million project, which is intended to wrest control of the city’s sewage overflow problem, should be awarded this summer, Myers said.
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Reporter Paige Dickerson can be reached at 360-417-3535 or at paige.dickerson@peninsuladailynews.com.
