BR~NTWOOD= DARJLXlNfGTON lNf~XGJBIBORJBIOOD JPJLAN BUREAU OF PLANNING CITY OF PORTLAND FEBRUARY 1992 ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL JANUARY 22,1992 ORDINANCE 165071 EFFECTIVE MARCH 13, 1992 PORTIAND CITY COUNCIL PORTLAND CITY PLANNING COMMISSION E. Bud Clark, Mayor Martha Peck Andrews, President Earl Blumenauer, Commissioner W. Richard Cooley, Vice President Dick Bogle, Commissioner Stan Amy, Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury, Commissioner Joan Brown-Kline, Commissioner Mike Lindberg, Commissioner Estill Deitz, Commissioner Margaret Kirkpatrick, Commissioner Richard Michaelson, Commissioner Chet Orloff, Commissioner Vivian Parker, Commissioner BREN1WOOD-DARLINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COMMITI'EE Dave Matthews, Planning Committee Chair Flo Anderson Pete O'Neal Greg Baird Arlene Palshikar Gordon Besaw Satish Palshikar Eileen Dahlheim Bonnie Randolph Carol ·Grant Bill Robinson Michelle Gray Jim Ruppa Dick Hazeltine Les Ryther, Jr. Opal Hazeltine Ed Spellman Joseph Lechuga Cover: SE S2nd near SE Flavel approx. 1932 Photo courtesy of Dick Hazeltine BRENTWOOD-DARLINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN AS ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL; JANUARY 22. 1992 EFFECTIVE: MARCH 13. 1992 ORDINANCE: 16S071 Bureau of Planning Gretchen Kafoury, Commissioner-in-Charge Robert E. Stacey, Jr., AlCP, Planning Director Robert E. Clay, AICP, Chief Planner, Long Range Planning and Urban Design Project Staff Jeanne Harrison, AICP, City Planner Susan McKinney. City Planner Nancy Weisser. Senior Planner Dick Bellinger, Graphic Illustrator Marge Hamlin, Word Processing Operator This plan was developed by the Brentwood~DarlingtonNeighborhood Planning Committee in cooperation with the Portland Bureau of Planning and with the assistance of Robin Gunn and Teresa Auld. Community Outreach Coordinators, and Nick Sauvie of Southeast Uplift. Printed on recycled paper ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FUNDING & IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS Boy Scout Troop No. 704 Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood Association Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association Food-Value Hawthorne Coffee Merchant Johnson Creek Market Neighborhood Partnership Fund Portland Bureau of Housing and Community Development Portland General Electric Portland Public Schools Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program Starbuck's Coffee on Hawthorne U.S. National Bank, Woodstock Branch THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FOR PROVIDING MEETING SPACE Errol Heights Baptist Church Lane Middle School ADDITIONAL THANKS TO: All participants and facilitators of the Brentwood-Darlington Plan Workshops, all members of Subcommittees, all respondents to the Neighborhood Questionnaire, and the many indiViduals and businesses that provided expertise, support, and encouragement during Brentwood-Darlington's planning process. Special thanks to the Marshall High School National Honor Society. to the Portland State University Urban Planning students, and to Alicia Steger who assisted at the workshops and with land use mapping. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. Community Overview 1 II. The Planning Process and Capital Improvements Spending Priorities 9 III. History 11 IV. A Vision for Brentwood-Darlington 21 V. Policies. Objectives and Strategies 29 Policy 1: Neighborhood Identity 27 Policy 2: Uvab1l1ty and Safety 31 Policy 3: Education. Recreation and Culture 37 Policy 4: Housing 43 Policy 9: Land Use 47 Policy 6: Business and Industry 91 Policy 7: Traffic and Transportation 99 Policy B: Public Services 61 Appendices: 67 Site Review Criteria 69 Oral History 73 Ordinance adopting the Plan 76 I. Community Overview the corridor that will accommodate both pedestrians and bicyclists. Community Overview Brentwood-Darlington is a low and moderate income neighborhood with generally modest homes. The residential density of Brentwood-Darlington is The Brentwood-Darlington community is located in similar to the density of housing to the north, east southeast Portland, from SE Duke Street on the and west. The density south of the neighborhood is north to SE Clatsop Street on the south, and from SE lower. 45th Avenue on the west to SE 82nd Avenue on the east. Clackamas County borders the neighborhood The neighborhood retains a semi-rural atmosphere on the south. Brentwood-Darlington contains because of its large and irregular lots, open space approximately 1.8 square miles of land, along Johnson Creek, low density development approximately 1.3 percent of the total area of along dirt streets, and a lack of sewers. The focal Portland. points of the neighborhood are its schools and adjacent parks, its churches, and the commercial The neighborhood was first established in 1882. It is areas along SE S2nd Avenue, SE Flavel Street, and predominantly single-family residential in SE 72nd Avenue. Groundbreaking for Harney Park, character and is built up along streets in a grid south of SE Harney Street and between SE 67th and pattern of long blocks. The neighborhood's identity 70th Avenues, was held on September 23,1991. The comes from its schools, parks, and churches, and area along SE 82nd is developed with a variety of from natural features such as Johnson Creek, the strip commercial and industrial developments and stands of Douglas Firs and the bluff along Bavel several older mobile home parks. Drive. Population and Household Characteristics Brentwood-Darlington is located on a plateau above the Johnson Creek Flood Plain with a shelf The 1980 census data is based on the boundaries of which runs in a southeasterly direction from SE the community as established by the Errol Heights 45th and Rex Drive along Rex Drive to SE Clatsop Community Plan. The current bpundaries of the on the Clackamas County line. The entire Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood Association neighborhood slopes gently to the southeast where are not exactly coterminous with this earlier Johnson Creek crosses the neighborhood at SE 82nd boundary, but they are similar enough so that the Avenue. The city recently purchased the. data can provide a general picture of the area. The Springwater railroad right-of-way that IS generally 1990 land use survey and 1991 census information is parallel and north of Johnson Creek in the based on the current boundaries of the southeast corner of the neighborhood. The rails neighborhood. have been removed and replaced with gravel. The Parks Bureau is currently planning for changes to 3 Brentwood-Darlington contains approximately 2.4 percent of the total population of Portland. The neighborhood. similar to the rest of southeast Portland, has traditionally housed a higher proportion of elderly residents than the city as a whole. Although complete data for recent years is not available in Brentwood-Darlington, the best available data indicates that the neiqhborhood has incomes and housing values below city averages and higher unemployment rates than the city as a whole. 4 II. The Planninq PrOdeSS and Capital Im.provem.ents Spendinq Priorities I PAEPAFE FCR WCRCSHCPlS) I ......... RMlE"'"FJW.lZl! CIT1ZENI'ITAFF I WOFl~O'(S) ~ POUClES.""""" W~~~ 'eiSEP:S111' ~lDIS PPEPAFlEsrIFF caUSSION"""""" ~~~~1O IlE\XIJMHlS .,""...... """'"PIAN j OATACOUECTlOH """"" "'-"''''"''''''\XILOCI. I - - AOOI'TOl \......... \\ fOTFYFA<7e1TY SOUCll aOOOA.E ............ NOlFV """""NO II"fl£SENTATl:JN RAl1FES"'-'" OCCUPANTS -."""""""' NIl"""""'" <:JWrB<l<>' """-0EI'Nll:lN P.c.P,C. <>' """""" - I - """"" - I CE>1!LOP~_ 6 Brentwood-Darlington and Cully. The selection was based on neighborhood requests and eligibility for The Planning Process Neighborhood Self Help Grants and Housing and Community Development funding. Brentwood­ Under one name or another. Brentwood-Darlington Darl~ngton was chosen. in part, because the has been an active neighborhood association since prevlous plan effort had not been completed and 1977. During its history. Brentwood-Darlington has annexation rezoning still needed to be completed. participated in numerous neighborhood planning activities, such as the development of the Errol The planning process for Brentwood-Darlington Heights Community Plan in 1979. The Errol Heights began in June 1990. and was intended to be an 18­ Community Plan was adopted by Multnomah month process. The Self Help Grant allowed the County as part of its Comprehensive Framework neighborhood to hire a coordinator to assist in the Plan. planning process. In 1979. when Portland began its major annexation A management team made up of representatives of program of mid-Multnomah County and as Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood and Planning Multnomah County began to stop providing an Bureau and Southeast Uplift staff was formed. As urban level of services. the county and Portland their first task. the management team hired the adopted an Urban Area Planning Agreement. The community outreach coordinator. Once hired. the agreement provided for the orderly transition of coordinator became a member of this management annexed properties between the two jurisdictions. team. The mission of this group was to collectively This transition was to include the adoption of a guide the neighborhood through the neighborhood reformatted version of the community plan into planning process, from planning committee Portland's Comprehensive Plan. selection to city adoption of the plan. Portions of Brentwood-Darlington had been o In August 1990. the Community Outreach annexed over the years on a piecemeal basi-s. The Coordinator began recruiting people to be members majority of the neighborhood was annexed to the of the planning committee. The 18-person planning city in 1986. A planning effort was initiated by the committee was made up of residents of the city in 1986 to begin