The Friends of LBA Woods is a volunteer stewardship group devoted to the restoration of wildlife habitat in the LBA Woods and to advocating for the protection and enhancement of the park for our community.
LBA Woods is the 133-acre wooded portion of the LBA Park & Woods, a city park in southeast Olympia, Washington. The main park entrances are at 3333 Morse-Merryman Rd. and 3500 Amhurst St. To locate additional pedestrian-bicycle entrances, consult the Park Map.
The Thurston Regional Planning Council voted unanimously today to remove the Log Cabin Road Extension from the Regional Transportation Plan.
The plan will retain the study (S-32), which is already in the plan and describes the Olympia Street Connectivity Study. This study will take place around 2030 and will cover the city’s southeast area where the LBA Park and Woods are located. Olympia does not anticipate the need for mitigating potential east-west traffic congestion in this area until 2040.
The Regional Transportation Plan will commit the City of Olympia to merely considering the Log Cabin Road Extension and a multimodal trail (bike and pedestrian) in their study.
What to do now? Take a deep breath. Take a walk in the LBA Woods. Take more deep breaths. Write a thank-you note to the members of the Transportation Policy Board and Thurston Regional Planning Council (both at info@trpc.org) for their vote to remove the road.
And then accept our big thank you for taking the time to submit public comments—in writing and via Zoom—over these past few months. Our elected and appointed officials on board and councils throughout the county took seriously our 300+ public comments opposing the Log Cabin Road Extension. Many board and council members had long and robust discussions of the Log Cabin Road Extension—several said they had never seen such strong public engagement on any issue!
