WHO HAS to MOVE OUT? R2DT Move Gets Hearing Agency Says Homeless Group Can Relocate; Neighbors Vow Appeal
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R2DT move gets hearing Agency says homeless group can relocate; neighbors vow appeal By PETER KORN The Tribune If Portland’s City Council ap- proves an agreement to move the Right 2 Dream Too homeless camp- ground to its new site under the west end of the Broadway Bridge, it could set a precedent that tents and campgrounds are legal on parking lots across the city, according to a legal interpretation of the move by Windy Williquette- an attorney for the Cheesman loves the Pearl District New Seasons that has Neighborhood As- “Basically, opened on North sociation and Pearl Williams Avenue, but District developers. they’re hates the fact that the Members of the saying popular new store neighborhood associ- tents on might be a factor in ation and local devel- forcing her out of the opers will take their parking lots neighborhood. A New case to City Hall dur- are fi ne, Seasons-style grocery ing a hearing on the raises nearby proposed move at 2 anywhere, property values about p.m. today (Thursday, anytime.” 20 percent, according Oct. 3). The hearing is — Patty Gardner, to a Metro study. expected to last more Pearl District than four hours. Neighborhood Three weeks ago, Association City Commissioner Amanda Fritz seem- ■ ingly resolved the Property values rise, affordable housing fades as market opens longstanding dispute about Right 2 Dream Too’s controversial Old Town markets for nonperishable items that day and results in a lot less been more than brisk, though man- location next to the Chinatown Gate on Story by Peter Korn such as laundry detergent and toi- wasted food. She fi gures cost-wise agement refuses to share numbers. West Burnside Street. She negotiated PHOTOS BY JAIME VALDEZ let paper once a month. But shop- she’s coming out close to even. Residents in the surrounding area, a deal in which Right 2 Dream Too ping every day at New Seasons, Williquette-Cheesman isn’t the even those with low incomes, say would move to city property and the Williquette-Cheesman says, allows only neighbor who loves the latest they visit the store regularly. So owners of the West Burnside property her to buy what she needs to cook New Seasons. Sales at the store have what’s not to like? would have erased more than $20,000 ou might say that Windy A month before the New Seasons Williquette-Cheesman is opened on North Williams, Willi- See HOMELESS / Page 11 of two minds about New quette-Cheesman’s landlord asked YSeasons opening a gro- the couple whether they would con- cery a block from the house she sider moving. He told them he want- and her husband rent on North ed to fi x up the old house they’ve Ivy Street. rented for 11 years, which clearly First off, she loves the store. has seen better days, and sell it. “I’m there like every day. I can’t Williquette-Cheesman asked if she stay away from it,” Williquette- and her husband could at least stay Cheesman says. in the house until spring. She hasn’t Before New Seasons opened on North Williams Avenue in August, See NEW SEASONS / Page 2 Williquette-Cheesman once or twice a month would drive to a Costco in New Seasons President Wendy Collie can TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT far Northeast Portland or a Fred show off a number of ways in which the Placing Right 2 Dream Too on a city- Meyer on North Lombard Street for North Williams store has tried to owned parking lot under the Broadway all her groceries. New Seasons can’t accommodate the neighborhood’s long- Bridge violates city zoning, according to match those stores on price, she says, time residents, but she can’t control attorneys for the Pearl District and she still hits one of the super- property values. Neighborhood Association, shop owners and investors in a hotel near the site. TriMet hits bumpy ‘Road diet’ gets mixed review road in critics’ eyes Division appears safer, but rush-hour Despite improvements, many say traffi c now backs up several blocks By STEVE LAW to take her morning walk to policies still hurt low-income riders The Tribune the park and cross Division since the city removed two By JIM REDDEN improve service in the future. When Mary Louise Ott traffi c lanes in August. The Tribune Bus rider advocates say the was growing up in the South Having just one lane of traf- regional transit agency didn’t Tabor neighbor- fic in each direc- After years of fare increas- need to raise rates and cut ser- hood, her par- tion makes Divi- es and service reductions, vice last year. They say TriMet is ents wouldn’t let TribTown sion easier to navi- TriMet is holding fares steady currently projected to run a $20 her walk to gate on foot, Ott and increasing service million surplus this year, which Mount Tabor SOUTHEAST says. It also may throughout the region. proves last year’s defi cit predic- Park because be easier because But that doesn’t mean every- tions were unfounded. TRIBUNE PHOTO: JONATHAN HOUSE crossing Southeast Division rush-hour traffi c backs up for one is happy about it. And even The advocates also complain Traffi c lines up during rush hour on Southeast Division Street near Street was so hazardous. several blocks now and often the TriMet Board of Directors is 60th Avenue. Not everyone agrees that the city’s “road diet” plan has Now back living in her child- puzzled about the best way to SeeTRIMET / Page 12 improved travel on the busy street for bikes and cars. hood home, Ott says it’s easier See TRAFFIC / Page 9 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that refl ects the BLAZER BRASS JUGGLES EXPECTATIONS, LINEUP stories of our communities. Thank you Inside — SEE SPORTS, PAGE B8 for reading our newspapers.” — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. 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South Waterfront might “We’re almost being shoved But New Seasons will have a be the next winner in the out of here,” Williquette-Chees- much more dramatic and long- specialty grocery sweep- man says. term impact on the neighbor- stakes, according to econ- The neighborhood around the hood, according to the Johnson- omist Jerry Johnson, co- North Williams New Seasons is Gardner report. author of the 2007 Metro still full of low- and Johnson says de- study that showed the im- middle-income velopers are well pact of stores like New apartments and “One of the aware of the effect Seasons on neighborhood houses like the reasons I think of having a New property values. one Williquette- Seasons or similar But South Waterfront Cheesman rents, we’re successful grocery in a neigh- may not yet have the feel of many inhabited by is we take about borhood. He was a traditional neighborhood. young men and working with in- And Johnson says another women with more a year before vestors looking at factor that would limit cus- education than in- opening a building an apart- tomers is the fact that it’s so come. But it’s ment project on hard for grocery shoppers changing quickly. store to learn North Williams from other neighborhoods A local study of about the prior to New Sea- to drive in and out. However, how different re- neighborhood.” sons announcing it TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JAIME VALDEZ “there’s a mad scramble to tail shops affect would build its A house for sale within sight of the North Williams New Seasons should see its value rise, if an economist get somebody down there,” property values — Wendy Collie, store, and he ad- report on how different stores affect property values is right. Johnson says. says that a New New Seasons president vised the investors It’s hard to think of South Seasons moving in that they should spaces — 66 — than car parking Waterfront as a food desert, will raise the value of nearby wait until a specialty grocer spaces — 58. When a customer but the hard-to-get-in-and- homes nearly 20 percent. came in. He told other investors explained that his family rode out factor means the people interested in building on North bikes to the store but had no who live in those high-rise Specialty grocers boost Mississippi Avenue —a mile place to park the tag-a-long in condos, just like some low- investment away — that they should factor which the children rode, the income folks in North Port- Economist Jerry Johnson in the increased value of their store put in spaces for the larger land and Lents, have to plan says that, based on his study, he project as a result of the North bikes.