Two presentations were part of the evening activities. Jeremy Talbot, the Port Director, presented a project overview and shared the previous preliminary planning efforts for 14 waterfront sites in Valdez. A link to Jeremy's presentation is provided below.
Click link to access preliminary planning efforts
Dan Lesh, an economic analyst with McDowell Group, presented an overview on the Valdez maritime economy that included opportunities and challenges facing the community and potential application to the project. A link to Dan's presentation is provided below.
Click link to access economic presentation
Group SWOT Analysis of Five Sites:
Attendees of the Monday night public workshop were split into two groups and asked to complete a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) and programming ideas of the five sites along the waterfront.
Summary Boards from Small Group Exercises:
SWOT Summary:
A summary of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and some programming ideas for the five focus sites that the Valdez community shared are as follows:New Boat Harbor:
Strengths
- Existing marine repair facility
- Useable space
- Most viable businesses on waterfront
- Tourist attraction/draw
- It exists
- Existing food/restaurant businesses
- Easy to fuel up
- Non-commercial fish processing nearby
- Proximity to eat/coffee
- City downtown proximity
- Downtown processor docks/fairly large uplands
- Cheap moorage
- Newer condition
- Walkability
- Demand exceeds footprint (lay down space)
- Limited parking
- Utility lines (overhead)
- Ditch/limited repair suitable drainage
- Discontinuous sidewalk on north side of parking along Kobuk Drive
- Deferred maintenance
- Doesn’t flush
- Traffic congestions (north harbor)
- Lack of parking
- Congested/full (150% occupancy)
- 3rd launch ramp not as easy to use due to lack of dock
- Tourists walking
- No specific viewing area
- Crowded launch ramps
- Lack of business property
- Shallow
- Can expand space across street (north of Kobuk Drive)
- Re-do dock configuration
- Underutilized footprint (slips/parking/businesses)
- Sheet pile (above)
- Organize user base
- Great amount of empty 20’ slips
- Sheet pile to add to uplands
- Make north harbor a one way
- Create walkway for tourists
- Lower powerlines to have better access to aux lot
- Pull back SBS dock
- When they re-do Kennicott add flushing capabilities
- Make more room by sheet pile docks
- Potential commercial business space on water side
- Pull back toe of slope (south side)
- Proximity to wetlands
- Museum expansion?
- Non-thru traffic (vehicle/pedestrian circulation)
- Organizing user base (multiple mixed uses)
- Dunleavy
- Aging facility
- Shotgun cove (Whittier)
- Overuse
- Poor water quality
- Loss of major maintenance funds
- Fishing industry collapse
- Sheet piling north side
- Boardwalk
- Bury power lines
- Expand repair yard
- Recreation / tourism focus
- Put up sheet pile to build slips
- Sheet pile dock @ SBS
- Move SBS dock
- Sheet pile and dredge for better access
- Get more land into commercial development
- Expand parking area by filling in wetlands by Bayside RV
- Create loading zone by harbor office (fish processing)
- Bury powerlines for travel lift
- Sheet pile from a dock to harbor office
- Maintenance pad
- Electrical improvements
- Move industry to out of commercial and recreation site
Sea Otter Park:
Strengths
- Proximity to downtown / cruise ships
- Potential for deep water
- Looped water utilities
- Sport fishing from shore
- View
- Room to expand
- Location for additional food processor
- Last development place of waterfront commercial property
- Deep water nearby
- Expandable
- Traffic flow – routing traffic
- Existing tideland leases (long term / property under contract)
- Not enough electricity?
- Noise conflict
- To many opportunities
- Satisfying public / access / uses
- Money? Community Resource?
- Not large enough to create a marine repair facility
- Access through industrial traffic
- Poor traffic flow
- Wind
- Potential for bottlenecking with expansion
- Surrounded by industrial property
- Heavy equipment vehicle congestion
- Needs dredging for vessel access
- Slower access due to active processors in summer
- Undersized utilities for development (water and power)
- Not enough water/power to area
- Expandable
- Existing industry in the area
- Better access to fishing processors
- Undeveloped public waterfront
- Seafood plant tours
- Successfully balancing variables
- Possible marine industrial area
- Fill out for additional deep water moorage
- Large taxable investment
- Seafood plant
- Large job creator
- Marine industrial park
- Increased salmon returns
- Increased processing operations
- Existing industry in the area
- Heavy truck traffic / conflicting uses
- Potential for fish processing – smelly, industrial nightmare
- Land use conflicts
- Slime line workers
- Utilities unable to meet demand
- Parks vs industry
- Museum
- City dock replacement
- Fish plant
- Park recreation
- Double fast-land footprint
- Tender vessel overflow
- Recreation and industrial manage mixed-use common in revitalizing industrial urban areas
- Processing
- Boardwalk
- Park around periphery
- Recreational fishing pier
- Commercial fish -
- Processing fleet offloading
- 3rd fish process
- Deep water moorage and add fill
- Fish plant
- Expand it add fill
New Boat Harbor:
Strengths
- New facility
- Depth
- New and shiny
- Bilgewater treatment building
- Flow of traffic
- New business opportunities
- Deep water
- Drive down float
- 30 year current life span (new)
- Ready for fuel provider
- Parking
- Ready space to use
- Close to services
- Close to duck flats
- Too small
- Expensive
- Profit loss
- Uncertainty for future of launch ramp
- No fuel provider
- No history / experience of use
- Proximity to town / walkability
- Presence of hotel hill
- No provisions for maintenance
- Visibility of site
- Dry stack
- Commercial property
- Hotel hill removal
- Fuel dock
- Launch ramps
- Commercial uplands available
- Expand moorage on other side
- Expanding a 3rd basin opposite in harbor cove
- Fuel dock/contract
- Undeveloped/shovel ready for western ramp
- Boatel?
- Ramp?
- 300,000+ cubic yards of fill
- Picnic shelter/mixed use on hotel hill
- Nice view from hotel hill
- Duck flats
- Exposed to weather
- Blast zone extra-large, ammo move?
- Inability to develop uplands due to funds shortage
- 3rd basin off north side
- Bike/walking trail to get to “town”
- Retail
- Dry stack
- More uplands (remove hotel hill)
- Fuel
- Picnic pavilion on top of hill
- 2-300 boat dry storage
Old Town:
Strengths
- Biggest amount of undeveloped acreage
- Accessibility to Richardson Highway
- Space
- Less in town traffic
- Wide open
- Flat
- Sport fish opportunity
- Keep industrial work out of downtown
- Industrial zoned
- FTZ nearby
- Shallow water depth/dredging
- No covered year-round maintenance facilities for any boat size
- No current boat launch
- Not suitable for 24 hour operation
- Day use plan
- Seismic zoning
- Wetlands
- Farther away from marine shops, etc
- Sentimental
- Unknown contamination
- Old town sensitivity
- Foreign trade soil
- Old townsite/rebuild
- Big enough for multiple uses
- Commercial services / food restaurant
- Efficient traffic flow
- Dry dock maintenance area
- King salmon hatchery
- Room to grow
- Marine industrial / haul out facility
- Marine industrial park
- Dry stack
- Space for shops (working on boats, etc.)
- Marine industrial
- Sport fish enhancement
- Very strong opposition for Old Town residents (opinions)
- Flood plain
- Soils/liquefaction
- Dredging needed
- Glacier stream
- Soil
- Earthquake
- Tsunami zone
- Uninsurable?
- Rail landing
- Recreational – kayak, SUP. Park? Launch
- Old town
- Zoning for lay down yard
- FTZ storage / distribution
- Big lift baby
- Replacement for container terminal
- Covered boat maintenance facility
- Maintenance shops
- Chinook hatchery
- Boat haul out
- Marine industrial
- Waterfront access/park
- Marine industrial
- Boat launch
Valdez Container Terminal:
Strengths
- Secure Area
- Depth profile
- Electric investment (pods)
- Location for large, odd-shaped shipping items
- Floating dock
- Best port in the state
- Lots of electrical soon…
- Room to grow
- Ice free
- Large yard
- Heavy lift
- New lights
- North star
- Perfect for oversize freight
- Accessibility from town
- Footprint limitations/expansion
- Gate issues
- Needs another mooring dolphin
- Ro/Ro ramp is tide dependent
- Aging infrastructure
- Small yard congested in summer
- One access point
- Life cycle facilities
- Powerlines at entrance
- General fund subsidy
- Birds
- Not big enough
- Large floating dock on same site
- Silo’s – uses?
- Deep draft
- Meet needs of boats displaced by cruise ships
- Yard storage organization could be better
- Ro/Ro ramp off floating dock
- Restaite building upgrades ex: water and bathroom
- Vacancy (new tenants)
- Crane rail
- Hub fish for region
- Dry bulk wide open
- Concrete storage in silos
- End of life span for floating dock
- Access at end of life span
- Duck flats
- Season dependent (ex: fishing)
- Aging infrastructure
- Bigger floating dock
- Permit land expansion
- Demolish grain towers or paint them
- Maintain infrastructure
- Increase yard size
- Increase park space
- Mooring dolphin
- Larger dock if it needs or when replaced
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