Corvallis e-News | April 2022

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In this issue: Check out the Arbor Day photo contest, share input on your values for the facilities project, and check out an in-person show at the Majestic Theatre.

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Arbor Day Photo Contest

April is Arbor Month in Oregon, and we're celebrating trees in our urban forest this April!

To observe Arbor Month, National Arbor Day, and to celebrate Corvallis’s 21 consecutive years as Tree City USA and 13th Growth Award, the Parks and Recreation Department is inviting the community to participate in a Tree Photo Contest!

  • Submit a photo entry of your favorite tree and why, with a general location of where the tree is located to get a chance to win a prize!
  • To qualify, photos should be taken within the Corvallis area and submitted by April 15.
  • The community will then get to vote for their favorite photo! Then vote for your favorite online from April 16 - April 28.

The top three photos with the most votes will be announced the winners on National Arbor Day, Friday, April 29. Winners will be notified via email. 

The first place winner will have their photo featured in this fall’s Activity Guide from Parks & Recreation!

Submit a photo here!

Facilities Investment Project

The City of Corvallis recently completed a study of its buildings to determine the space needed for employees and the tools and equipment they use to deliver services to the community. The assessment identified significant and decades-old deficiencies in public buildings and facilities. Read more about these findings on the City website.

We have a plan in place to address these long-term issues. The Citywide Facilities Strategy, which lays out the scope of work, is available on the City website.

Share Your Values

There’s a big task ahead of us, and you can help out by sharing your input on the various facility shortcomings that can be addressed through different projects.

Please let us know what YOU think in this short questionnaire: ENGLISH | SPANISH

The feedback provided here will be shared with the City Council at their May 5 work session. We appreciate your thoughtful input.

Neighborhood Bikeways Taking Off in Corvallis

The first in a planned series of neighborhood bikeways is starting construction this spring on 11th Street!

Wait, what's a neighborhood bikeway?? Well, these are local streets adjusted to make it more pleasant for people to walk, ride bikes and/or roll. Neighborhood Bikeways are part of our Low-Stress network outlined in our Transportation Systems Plan and budgeted for in our City’s Capital Improvement Program. We’ll be rolling out more of these as the years go by and next locations are as follows:

  • 11th Street South (from NW Harrison to SW E Street; FY22-23)
  • Tyler Avenue (NW 1st St to NW Kings Blvd; FY23-24)
  • SE Corvallis (FY25-26)
  • NW 27th Street Bikeway (NW Walnut Blvd to NW Grant Ave; FY26-27)

Elements of a Neighborhood Bikeway vary from corridor to corridor. Mostly, they will bring pavement markings (sharrows), new signage and sometimes new asphalt for better travel conditions. They can also mean  curb bulb outs, made with flexible posts and paint, at certain higher volume intersections and neighborhood traffic circles, also made with flexible posts and paint, at smaller intersections where Neighborhood Bikeways intersect. Removing on-street parking is not generally a treatment used in Neighborhood Bikeways treatments.

We're excited to get started on this project. Let us know what you think as 11th Street starts to take shape!

Linden Avenue and 9th Street Improvements

This is just a heads up that Public Works will be starting a big construction project on NW Linden Avenue and NW 9th Street in April. The project will begin with some water pipeline work on Linden, followed by some repaving on Linden, before moving on to grind & resurface 9th Street from Circle to Conifer.

The whole project should carry us through the end of the summer and wrap up, ideally, by October. There will likely be periodic traffic controls in place for portions of this work. The map shows more detail on the affected areas. For more information, please feel free to contact Josh Tacchini at Joshua.Tacchini@corvallisoregon.gov.

Spring/Summer Parks & Recreation Activity Guide

Registration is OPEN for most activities in the new spring/summer activity guide from the Parks & Recreation Department. Print copies are arriving in mailboxes soon, and you can always access the full roster of events online in English and Spanish!

Who Works at the City of Corvallis?

Who works at the City of Corvallis? We're stewards and sustainers, and planners and dreamers. There's a place for you, too. Read more & apply for a job online.

In-Person Performance Update at the Majestic Theatre

Majestic Theatre has been offering in-person events for a while now, but this month the theatre will be ending vaccine verification and masking requirements for live performances. In doing so, the theatre is following venues both across the state and locally in moving from requiring to recommending that patrons and volunteers continue to mask up in order to help bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end.

If you purchased tickets for upcoming Majestic performances with the understanding that masking and vaccine verification would be in place and are not comfortable attending without them, please reach out to us Monday - Friday 10 a.m. 5 p.m. at 541-758-7827 to request a refund.

If you have any concerns or questions about this plan, please contact the Theatre Supervisor at jimbo.ivy@corvallisoregon.gov or 541-766-6586.

And don't forget to visit the Ticketing page for more information on all of the fabulous upcoming productions at the Majestic.

What's New at the Library this Month?

There's a lot going on at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. Check out any of the events below to learn more!

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