June 24, 1958 Memo to Mayor Terry Schrunk regarding the Vanport Proposed Development Plan, Feasibility Recommendations:

1. Vanport site presently has only one adequate public access – U.S. 99 (Denver Avenue). At least two additional points of easy access to the area should be developed.

2. A 130 acre tract situated in the norther part of Vanport is the best area for industrial development. This land abuts existing industrial development, has nearby rail facilities, and is nearest to the Columbia River, and thus hydraulic fill material from the impending dredging of the ship channel can be brought in at least expense. It is suggested that such industrial tract be filled above flood level in order to be as attractive as possible for industrial development.

3. An 80-acre sanitary fill development can be best situated south of the industrial tract at the western extremity of Vanport.

4. The remaining 425 acres of the Vanport site can well be put to recreational use. The recommended north-south main traffic route, which is an extension of Chautauqua Boulevard, through Vanport site bisects the proposed recreation area. A 150-acre municipal golf course is proposed for the west portion while areas for swimming facilities, lighted ball fields, children’s day camp, picnics, canoeing, midget boat riding, automobile driver’s training course, parking field, drag strip, tennis, and other court games would be provided for in the 275-acre area to the east.

5. A further study should be taken to determine whether it would be advantageous for the City to acquire all of the property at the southern extremity of the Vanport site.