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By Allan Classen ith the city’s full bless- ing, Portland restau- Wrants have built all manner of dining shelters in parking lanes. Examples line Northwest 21st and 23rd avenues, where such installations take more space than vehicles on Who benefits when some blocks. Thanks to an ambitious initiative by there are no fees and no the Portland Bureau of Transportation, permits to install seating in the public right of way during the pandemic era are free, and PBOT is eager to hand enforcement of street cafés? them out. No inspectors check to see that the platforms and structures meet A TriMet bus crosses the centerline to get around shelters in the parking lane on Northwest 21st Avenue. Photo by Wesley Mahan any standards or size constraints. It’s called the Healthy Businesses Program. It replaces the faltering Street about the results. clusion. really all feedback channels that this is Seats Program, initiated in 2012, which something that’s really been good for “The scale of street life and vibrancy “Both participants in the program involved substantial regulations and Portland and has lasting value.” fees, including replacing the lost park- that this program is supporting is pretty as well as Portlanders at large have ing meter revenue for the spaces con- notable,” Pearce said, recalling a recent been overwhelmingly supportive of this His comments came at the beginning st verted to business use. walk along Northwest 21 Avenue after as something that’s been a positive of a July meeting of the Northwest Park- a Timbers game. outcome of an otherwise very terrible ing Stakeholders Advisory Committee, Art Pearce, who manages the Healthy year,” he said. “We’re hearing through Businesses Program, is enthusiastic A PBOT survey reinforced that con- Cont’d on page 6 Where is our parks money? A little-known system collects revenues here, spends them elsewhere
By Allan Classen n arcane taxing term has become so vital to North- west District Association activists that the mere Amention of its initial–DCs–needs no explanation. System development charges were instituted by the city of Portland in the 1990s as one-time fees assessed on new development to help pay for the expanded infrastructure triggered by growth. Each new unit of housing is now taxed to increase the capacity of park, street, water and sewer systems. The sometimes perverse and unforeseen consequences of this system have bubbled up into public consciousness, especially within the boundaries of the Northwest District Association, where at times cranes on adjacent construction sites seem to joust. More than 3,000 homes have been built here in the past decade. Interest in SDCs is also heightened within NWDA, whose president (Parker McNulty), a board member (Noel Johnson) and a Planning Committee member (Elliott Gansner) are all residential developers as well as neighborhood residents. The issue is not just that the development fees are high— Northwest District Association board members Joe McNeil, with son Milo, Tanya March and Noel Johnson at toward $25,000 per unit for multifamily housing—but Wallace Park. Photo by Matt Erceg
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ccording to the citizens We’re full to the gills ety, according to its member on picked by Portland Parks & with special interests. the citizens’ committee, is mostly ARecreation to support the interested in an event space that it bureau’s redesign of the South Park There’s no room for hopes will funnel paying custom- Blocks, the process was fair and ers into the OHS. open. After all, the plan was post- citizens. ed online, reported in the media “The only good that comes from and presented at community meet- this project is a detailed invento- ings. Testimony was taken by the ry of what the park once was and City Council before adoption. always should be. This informa- tion will be invaluable when wiser In the broadest sense, there was heads in a future year undertake citizen involvement. But not all genuine historical restoration of citizen involvement is created the South Park Blocks that we equal. damage willy-nilly today.” While Portland Parks & Recreation If any doubt in the self-certainty of was guiding its own citizen advi- PP&R’s ramrod approach had been sory committee to the master plan, acknowledged, a broader commu- a broader array of citizens was nity discussion might ensue. mobilizing to protect the historic character of the South Park Blocks. Instead, City Council members The independent activists includ- heard all they thought they need- ed Mike Lindberg, a former city ed to know and trusted that the commissioner who oversaw the whole truth was on the side of the bureau and the cheering section it Parks Bureau; Stephen Kafoury, a committee spoke against the mas- Leeson, the discrepancy was not former state legislator; historians; gathered. The council was prodded ter plan, and she paid a price for surprising. by PP&R to act quickly lest a rare landscape architects; arborists and doing so. many daily users of the park who “What we are seeing today is the opportunity be lost. belong to the Downtown Neigh- At the council hearing, two com- sad denigration of one our most borhood Association. A task force The opportunity lost was for a mittee members took her to task. beautiful and historic parks by spe- deeper community dialogue in prepared a formal nomination for One slandered her, accusing her cial interest groups that have little national historic recognition. For- which the best ideas might have of lying, intimidating, rule-break- interest in the park and its peace- emerged, possibly leading to com- mer Gov. Barbara Roberts and U.S. ing and selfishness and another ful ambience as a whole. Rep. Les AuCoin made a plea to promise. As it was, master plan labeled neighborhood associations, advocates and historic preserva- halt the master plan, which would of which she was a representative, “Portland State University wants to remove a row of trees and replace use its adjoining blocks for its own tionists both saw the success of the as colonialist defenders of white other side as permanently forestall- grass with hardscape to better privilege. benefit, with little concern for the “activate” the park. whole park. Portland Farmers Mar- ing their goals, a logical conclusion So the official citizen advisers ket has little concern for the park given the winner-take-all dynamic Certainly, PP&R picked a diversity came down 20-1 in favor of the other than for selling its products. fostered by PP&R and the council. of individuals for their advisory city’s position, while those speak- The bicycle lobby has little interest committee, but the selections were The consequence was politics by ing at the hearing were 42-8 against in the park other than creating an division and personal attack. We weighted toward special interests it. invasive bicycle route. benefiting from the bureau’s plan. used to believe that Portland had a n Only one of the 21 members of the To historian and journalist Fred “Even the Oregon Historical Soci- better way.
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well as her damning comments about our Portland listening in search of any mutual solution isn’t hap- Hardesty tone deaf police, were very telling. pening anytime soon. Robert Knoll “Digging deep, shining a light” said it all in your July Since that meeting, SHNA leadership has gone it SW Elm Lane issue of the NW Examiner. alone and continued to engage developers on the Southwest 58th Avenue parking issues. Thank you for your accurate coverage of the recent virtual Sylvan Highlands Neighborhood Association I have lived in the Sylvan area nearly 48 years. Awesome neighbors meeting with Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, which Having labored along with SHNA on the protracted The president of the Pearl District Neighborhood I attended. discussions with PBOT, ODOT and TriMet engineers Association, Stan Penkin, and his band of neighbors long ago during the Westside Light Rail tunneling are awesome for stepping in at personal risk to deter While she discussed some critical civic and social project, I learned that real civic dialogue takes time political violence in their neighborhood. I am not sure issues that need attention, I don’t recall any Portland and patience. At the time, we had active listeners at I would have the charity or the courage to share a beer city commissioner any less engaged, more tone deaf all agencies, and a reasonable outcome was achieved. with these modern day Brownshirts. or dismissive of our neighborhood issues or concerns. Her negative pushbacks on every discussion topic, as It saddened me to leave the virtual meeting with Civic resistance by concerned citizens is inspiring but Commissioner Hardesty only to realize that active Cont’d on page 5
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North Eugene High School from 1957- were interned during World War II. She Muriel Collins Margaret Christenson 1961, and after moving to New York, received a bachelor’s degree from Wil- Muriel Marian Collins, Margaret Jean “Peggy” returned to Portland, where she taught at lamette University in 1960, a master’s a 1946 Lincoln High Christenson, who grad- Jefferson High School for 16 years before degree from Oregon State University in School graduate, died uated from Lincoln retiring in 1993. She was a member of the 1962 and a degree in psychology from June at age 92. She was High School in 1961, Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland Gar- the University of Oregon. She worked born Oct. 7, 1928, and died July 19 at age 78. den Club, Ascension Episcopal Parish, for Portland Public Schools for 35 years, grew up on a farm in Peggy Ritter was born Mazamas and Junior League. She is sur- 28 of them as a psychologist. Her brother Portland. She married in Portland on April vived by her husband, Jerry; daughters, Norio died in 2019. John Collins in 1950. 20, 1943. She attended Dana and Heidi; sister, Linda Howe; and After high school, she Marylhurst College, one grandchild. worked at Pacific Northwest Bell and then where she studied art. She married Eric R. at her husband’s dental practice in down- Christenson Jr. in 1968; he died in 1996. Death Notices town Portland for 35 years. After his death They settled in Sherwood and in 1985, in 1983, she worked for 17 years as a William H. Stockwell they opened the Grey Whale, a gift store Ann V. Bartsch, 70, former director and William Herren receptionist at Stoel Rives LLP. She was a on the Long Beach Peninsula they operat- president of Friendly House. lifelong member of the First Presbyterian ed until1998. She was a member of the Stockwell, a 1959 Church, where she taught Sunday school Lincoln High School Multnomah Athletic Club. She is survived William Lee (Bill) Brennan, 77, attend- graduate and former and served as a deacon for decades. She by her son, Eric F. Christenson; sister, ed Lincoln High School. was a member of the Portland Golf Club Janet Simpson; and two grandchildren. Northwest Portland and the Multnomah Athletic Club. She is resident, died May Melvin C. “Bud” Donald, 76, member of 26. He was born June survived by her children, Melanie Perko, the Multnomah Athletic Club. Drew Collins, Michelle Lea Collins, and 3, 1941, and attended Todd Collins; nine grandchildren; and 11 Riverdale Grade Christopher Hakala Joyce Takako Fedler, 78, graduated great-grandchildren. School and Lewis & Clark College. He from Lincoln High school in 1960. Christopher Kandlin served for six years in the Air National Hakala, who graduated Guard. He co-founded In-Mar Sales Inc., from Lincoln High Helen Johnston, 86, receptionist at First an industrial and marine supply compa- Immanuel Lutheran Church. Michael Munk School in 2019, died ny, retiring after 42 years. He married June 24 at age 21. He LoAnn Park in 1966, and they lived on Michael Munk, who Irving J. Leopold, 95, graduate of Lin- was born in Santa Northwest Thurman Street from 1996- escaped Nazi-dominat- coln High School in1944. Rosa, Calif., on Jan. 12, 2011. He is survived by his daughter, ed Eastern Europe with 2000, and moved with Cindy Schaffer; son, Rich; brothers, Page his family in 1939 and Millicent E. “Micki” Naito, 96, civic his family to the Pearl and Charles; sisters, Ann Cowger and later became a leading leader and member of prominent busi- District in 2011. He attended Chapman Laura; and three grandchildren. historian of Portland Elementary and East and West Sylvan ness family. radicals, died last middle schools. He is survived by his month at age 87. He father, Jon Hakala; stepmother, Meghan John D. Nerheim, 71, Lincoln High was born July 5, 1934, Hakala; and sister, Shayane Hakala. A Adrian Stuehler School graduate. in Czechoslovakia, and immigrated with memorial gathering will be held Monday, Adrian Michael Stue- Chelsea L. Newmark, 32, member of the his family to Portland, where he attended Aug. 16, 6 p.m., at Jamison Square. Dona- hler, a Northwest Multnomah Athletic Club. Hillside School and graduated from Lin- tions may be to the National Alliance on Portland resident coln High School in 1952. He received a Mental Illness. who worked for the Dorothy Poznanski, co-founder and bachelor’s degree from Reed College, a NW Examiner for sev- operator of Phillip Electronics Co. master’s degree at the University of Ore- eral years, died July gon and a doctorate from New York Uni- 15 at age 71. He was Michael C. Prange, 76, a medical social versity. He taught political science for 25 Olivia Froebe born Dec. 24, 1949, in years at Midwestern and East Coast worker at Legacy Good Samaritan Medi- Olivia Ann Froebe, a reading specialist Stuttgart, Germany, schools before returning to Portland in the cal Center for 40 years. at Ainsworth Elementary School, died and immigrated to the United States in mid-1990s. In 2007, he published, “The July 25 at age 85. Olivia Tharaldson was 1976. He moved to Portland in 1981. He Portland Red Guide: Sites & Stories of Our born in Pendleton and graduated from worked as a printmaker and graphic art- Radical Past.” He worked with the Oregon The Dalles High School. She received ist and had several freelance jobs, includ- Cultural Heritage Commission to dedicate bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the ing proofreading and delivery for the a bench in Washington Park to John Reed. University of Oregon. She married Jerry Examiner from 2006 to 2010. He had He married five times and had no chil- The Northwest Examiner publishes Froebe in 1958. She taught English at been homeless since his apartment build- dren. ing on Northwest 19th was destroyed by obituaries of people who lived, fire in about 2000. A memorial gathering worked or had other substantial will be held at Anna Bannanas, 1214 NW connections to our readership area, 21st Ave., Sunday, Aug. 8, at 4 p.m. which includes Northwest Portland, Goose Hollow, Sauvie Island and areas north of Highway 26. If you Carrie H. Saito have information about a death in our Carrie H. Saito, a 1956 graduate of Lin- area, please contact us at allan@ coln High School who grew up in Old nwexaminer.com. Photographs are Town, died July 26 at age 83. She was born July 20, 1938, and attended Shat- also welcomed. There is no charge tuck Grade School. She and her family for obituaries in the Examiner.
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no substitute for what our city leaders need to do: Sup- port the police and prosecute perpetrators of political violence instead of releasing them without charge.
Oh yes, and give us back our statues, thereby showing that going forward, you will refuse to genuflect before those who shout (and smash) the loudest. Until then, This illustration prepared by architect the city of Portland will fail to live up to the motto on and preservationist William Hawkins its vehicles: “The city that works.” III was questioned by reader Roger Juliet Kane Brown. See letter and editor’s note NW 25th Ave below. City encourages homelessness
Your July editorial talks about high land values and information about why members of City Council did I am 100 percent certain that our iconic stretch of sanc- high rates of homelessness in Portland. A Professor not support the proposal, and I would like to set the tuary can be less of a tired, fusty fixture and more of Patrick Condon from the University of British Columbia record straight and apologize to the City Council for my a healthy, vibrant, interactive space. If we really want thinks we should solve our problems by more taxes and poor choice of words. these beloved Park Blocks to survive another 150 years, more regulation and density bonuses. No. listen to the experts and invest. High residential prices do come from the fabled market After watching the May 13 council session and doing Daniel O’Brien system, even though it is squeezed two ways by big boa further investigation, I now have a much better under- SW 10th Ave. standing of why the majority of the council did not constrictors. The first is natural demand for housing in There seems to be a large amount of disinformation support the expansion at this time, and I agree that fur- Portland because Portland has huge high tech industries regarding the proposed South Park Blocks Master ther evaluation should be conducted before expanding and a good economy and more and more people want to Plan. Your lack of fact checking in the Going Back the program. live here and they want houses. That’s one constrictor. article [July 2021 NW Examiner] is a disservice to your The second is government. This does not mean that the program will not continue readers. This article and an accompanying photograph Government makes it impossible to build outside the to be funded; it simply means that it will not be rolled seem to imply that the proposed bike lanes (the Green perimeter of Portland, which obviously makes for less out citywide until there is an opportunity to conduct Loop) will encroach on the park and require removal of housing and higher prices. Government imposes more further evaluation and make necessary adjustments to existing trees. A review of the master plan (page 109) and more restrictions on building and selling and rent- ensure that the program is successful. clearly shows this is not the case. Only the removal of ing property, and that makes it harder to create more the bordering narrow sidewalk will occur and the plan housing. True, roads and infrastructure do and should The purpose of the Lents pilot program is to imple- plainly states that “No tree removal is proposed.” enable people to live here, but, no one would live here ment, evaluate, improve and correct operations before The article states that the “park was never intended to if this weren’t a natural and delightful place to make a executing a full rollout. be a thoroughfare for vehicles of any kind,” and yet the living building things that people use, like shoes and author does not seem to have any problem that the park computers. Until there is further evaluation and evidence to show is currently bordered on each side by lanes dedicated to that the pilot program is meeting measurements for As to the alleged homeless and the true homeless, the automobiles. I have certainly been disappointed in the success, I support the City Council’s decision not to Examiner lately in its negative coverage of proposals city does its best to encourage homelessness by facilitat- expand the program at this time. ing residence on the public lawn. Once people get used and plans designed to improve the way we get around Mary Sipe the city in anything but a car (Northwest in Motion, for to this life, it is hard for them to change. Our culture PDNA Board Member and government should encourage and prod people to example). be responsible. It should not encourage people to be Roger Brown miserable, unsatisfied, unproductive residents of our SW Edgewood Road streets and parks. Roger Ley Listen to experts NE Summer St. Editor’s note: It is true that the Green Loop itself I’m all for reinvigorating the South Park Blocks’ would not necessitate the removal of trees. Howev- strengths: tree-canopy shade in the summer and dap- er, a map (shown above) on Page 91 of the master pled daylight in the winter. But as someone who lives plan shows the row of trees in question replaced by Not so stupid a block away from the South Park Blocks (and walked “understory planting of native and adaptive plants.” In the July issue, I was quoted at the Pearl District through it, sat in it, or pedaled alongside it at all hours), The map indicates only three rows of trees remaining Neighborhood Association board meeting as saying that where there are now five. I thought the City Council vote against Commission- er Hardesty’s proposal to expand the Portland Street Response pilot program city wide was “just plain stu- pid.” DOWNTOWN I now realize that opinion was based on very limited SELF STORAGE
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The corrugated aluminum shelter at Southland Whiskey Kitchen on Northwest 23rd Avenue has apparently taken a few hits in the past year.
"Street dining rules" cont'd from page 1 The popularity of the program proves upstairs is, ‘I have no control over it. It’s nothing to Harrison. a city program.’ “All indications a citizen body advising PBOT on the “The reason people are doing this is “I think we need to be more careful parking meter program encompassing are that this is because it’s free,” she said. “When they about how these are approved,” he said. most of the Northwest District. had to pay for it, they weren’t doing it. something that Michaelson also noted traffic prob- Committee member Don Singer, a I talked to one of the people who had lems created by street shelters extend- will be a lasting commercial property owner, seconded tried doing a Street Seat, and he said it ing eight or more feet into the street, Pearce’s observation. just doesn’t pay for him.” element of about two feet beyond parked cars. Portland’s future.” “We see the added vitality on the Rick Michaelson, who chairs the When such installations are on both street on 23rd,” Singer said. “It’s help- advisory committee, said evaluating the sides of the street, buses and trucks – Art Pearce, ing a lot of our tenants who don’t nec- program is not as simple as affirming have difficulty passing. essarily have the sidewalk presence. that restaurants like it. Committee member Karen Karlsson manager of Healthy Things have improved to the point “As a landlord for a number of restau- said standards are needed for the mix where they’re seeing foot traffic.” Businesses Program rants, they’re getting a bargain com- of “eclectic and haphazard” structures But for the first time, Pearce heard pared to what landlords are charging for that have been built. discouraging words about streets used square footage,” Michaelson said. “What I don’t like about some of them as extensions of restaurants. While conceding that “this program is they’re just too permanent looking, “I’m not as fond of this as some peo- has been a help to me,” he said it has and others are too impermanent look- ple seem to be,” said Jeanne Harrison, raised dilemmas. ing,” Karlsson said. a retired PBOT planner who represents He has had to “mediate between my Pearce pushed back. the Northwest District Association on upstairs office tenants in a building the advisory committee. I find it very “The more standards we create, the where a restaurant tenant has taken difficult to get down the sidewalk with more city staff we create to enforce over the street and taken away parking businesses having both sidewalk tables those standards, so I think it’s just some and expands and expands without any and stuff in the street.” question about return on investment,” enforcement. All I can tell the tenants
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Karen Karlsson (above), Rick Michaelson and Jeanne Harrison, who serve on the Northwest Parking Stakeholders Advisory Committee, have raised fundamental questions about the city’s under-regulat- ed street café program.
he said. program. We need to come up with a Pearce defines return on investment balancing act for the program so that in broad social terms. more emergent businesses or businesses with lower profit margins are also able “That is part of the broader lens we to take advantage of it, not just the very will be taking,” he said. “What does this top end.” do to the broader vitality of Portland, to the support of small businesses—specif- Pearce believes expanded non-auto ically small BIPOC entrepreneurs—and uses of streets are in Portland’s future. how this may be providing them with “We are projecting a shift in modal opportunities is part of what we’ll have usage over time [toward] continuing to look at.” to provide enough opportunities for There is another way to look at the walking, cycling and taking transit so social mission concept. that people are able to access this neigh- borhood without needing a vehicle so While PBOT sees social benefits in much. giving public space to business use, doing so countermands the Stakehold- “One of the other elements that we’ve ers Advisory Committee’s core purpose: seen a lot of is side-street plazas, in spending net revenues of the parking which either a portion of the street or meter program for the transportation-re- the entire street is closed to allow for lated benefit of the community. Without multiple businesses as well as public sufficient meter revenue, there are no use,” he said. “That’s goes beyond the funds to spend on local transportation commercial use of the right-of-way to amenities, infrastructure or programs. public benefit of the right-of-way.” Those programs include subsidizing “We’re looking at Healthy Businesses parking permits for low-income resi- as anchor tenants to the broader poten- dents, alternative transportation passes tial for plaza-type use,” Pearce said. for those who relinquish their park- “All indications are that this is some- ing permits, as well as investments in thing that will be a lasting element of pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. Portland’s future.” If there is a tradeoff between these Liberating streets from vehicle domi- nance may be in the future, but Michael- personal injury two forms of social good, the Portland product liability City Council never had that discussion. son believes there is current justification for charging to do business on them. wrongful death medical malpractice “The City Council covered the cost Some businesses can afford to pay for of this program through July 1 [2022],” use of the right-of-way and probably Pearce said, “allowing it to continue to should be doing so, he said. be free.” “If you’re a restaurant, and you’re The council covered revenues lost utilizing this, it’s a great asset to you,” by PBOT but did not replace revenues Karlsson told Pearce. “But if you’re a lost for local transportation-related pro- neighboring business that doesn’t uti- grams. lize the [program], parking places are PBOT is considering imposing a fee gone. structure after next July. “So please make sure that you’re fac- “If we charge as much as we can for toring—not just, is it great for the busi- this, we will only have business own- nesses that are getting it—but is it great ers who can pay benefiting from this for vitality? Is it fair and equitable?” n Comment on nwexaminer.com or email: [email protected]
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2771 NW THURMAN ST. FIREHOUSE THEATRE Edgar Waehrer and Susan Sturgis have proposed The former Firehouse Theater at 1436 SW Montgomery five three-story row houses at Northwest 28th and St. is on the list of possible city-owned sites for six “man- BLOCKS 161-262 Thurman Streets adjacent to 10 similar homes aged villages” for homeless people. Decisions on the six The national developer behind two mixed-use they built in 1992-93. Garages to the rear would be sites are to be made this month. buildings west of St. Patrick Church pulled out of entered from a single driveway. the project, but it has been taken over by Greystar Worldwide LLC, which has an office in the Pearl District. SERA Architects has designed a mini park behind the historic church to keep the larger of the two buildings from overshadowing it.
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MODERA MAIN A 17-story apartment building and parking garage project developed by Mill Creek Residential Trust in NORTHWEST 23RD AND partnership with the Multnomah Athletic Club went to de- MARSHALL sign review Aug. 5. The Goose Hollow Foothills League The Portland City Council rejected an appeal by argued that the building would be out of character and the Northwest District Association concerning the more than twice as large as any structure in the neigh- design of a five-story mixed-use project on the borhood. former site of the Quality Pie restaurant. NWDA SUSAN EMMONS challenged the proposal for violating a city-adopt- NORTH & SOUTH ed design guideline requiring the top floor to be Demolition has begun on five apartments built in stepped back along 23rd Avenue. Instead of an 1940 to make way for two apartment buildings apparent height of 45 feet, the eastern façade will Proposed Under Review In Construction Other be 55 to 65 feet tall. straddling the historic Buck-Prager Building at 610 NW 18th Ave. The north building will have 98 For an interactive and continually updated version of this map, visit: NextPortland.com units of affordable housing on six floors, and the Also see the development map maintained by the Goose Hollow south building will have 48 market-rate units on Foothills League: four floors. goosehollow.org/images/GooseHollowDevelopmentMap.pdf
8 Northwest Examiner, AUGUST 2021 / nwexaminer.com Going Out In other news . . . Café Nell aided by broad package of regulatory relief
By Allan Classen ity Commissioner Dan CRyan’s office and the Bureau of Development Services con- sidered administrative and leg- islative fixes that help Café Nell Pergolas in Pearl legalize its expanded outdoor Last month the Pearl District Neighborhood Association celebrated the installation seating during the COVID-19 era. of five pergolas, 12-foot-tall wooden structures to house booths for artists, musicians Because the restaurant is and vendors through at least October. The structures were donated by Capital and located on residentially zoned Parr Lumber companies, Premier Mortgage, Summit Reconstruction and individuals. property at Northwest 20th and In the photo are Judie Dunken of PDNA, Chelsea Smith from Urban Art Network, Kearney, it is not allowed to David Dysert of PDNA, Stan Penkin of PDNA, Leah Jackson of Capital Lumber, Tony expand or intensify its opera- Cookston of Parr Lumber, John Hollister of PDNA and Cole Hamilton of Summit tions. Since the summer of 2020, Reconstruction. Glenn Traeger of PDNA is partially obscured in the second row. Café Nell has offered outdoor seating for about 100 people on Waive design review requirements on a tent-enclosed 50-by-100-foot parking tented structures on parking lots. lot. Phoenix Fridays The emergency ordinance was adopt- After months of proposals by vari- ed by the council unanimously on July Phoenix Fridays continue through ous City Hall actors—none of whom 14 with an expiration date of March 31, th Aug. 27 along Northwest 13 Ave- answered the NW Examiner’s ques- 2023. There was no mention of Café nue between Everett and Flanders tion: Would this benefit any business Nell in the ordinance or council delib- streets. The Urban Art Network besides Café Nell?—a broader solution eration. was rolled out in June. brings art, food, music and local The ordinance puts in abeyance a businesses together every Friday Commissioner Ryan introduced a directive by BDS giving the business from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. package of 11 regulatory adjustments 90 days to apply for a nonconforming Phoenix Fridays are one of the pro- covering murals, signs, home business- review and another application for an es, boarded up windows and rooftop grams promoted by the Pearl Dis- amendment to the city’s Comprehen- mechanical equipment. The package sive Plan. trict Neighborhood Association to also expanded on provisions of direct th Abutting neighbors complained activate 13 Avenue. benefit to Café Nell: about noise and disruption emanating Allow retail and service businesses to from the outdoor dining area, but the operate in parking lots owned or leased City Council denied their appeal in Slabtown Outdoor Market by the business. April, approving a noise variance for an The monthly Slabtown Outdoor Market Exempt limits on nonconforming industrial-scale outdoor heater and for returns Sunday, Aug. 8, and Sept. 12, 11 uses. amplified music on the parking lot. a.m.-6 p.m., at The Carson, Northwest 21st and Savier streets. About 35 local restau- rants and retailers, in addition to farmers, craftspeople and artists, have booths. NOBBY NEWS Tandoor Indian Kitchen Vol. 27, No. 8 “News You Can’t Always Believe” August 2021 Tandoor Indian Kitchen, a fast-ca- sual restaurant featuring Indi- an-style cuisine, will open its Cool cooks fourth Portland location at 1037 t may be August, but the NW Flanders St. this month. kitchen crew at the Nob IBill Bar & Grill is rock- ing around the Christmas tree! Besaw’s Head chef Cammi is to blame. His new cooling col- Besaw’s restaurant, 1545 NW 21st Ave., is temporarily closed for remodeling, according to a sign on the door and a voice mail message. Attempts to reach the lar keeps cool air blowing owner and landlord were unsuccessful. around his head but emits no sound. Cammi insists he hears cool music. Oth- ers gave it a try and now the whole crew is rocking out. Jerry likes to work while listening to reports on the Housemade Artic. Chris prefers a sound Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner loop of “White Christmas.” Escape to Nature on Mt Hood Cammi is a sly one. Nobby’s Nobbys staff swaying to music Yurts & Camping summer kitchen has never been only they can hear, don’t dis- Specials 2-bedroom cabin happier. So if you observe the turb them. They’re being cool. Thu – Mon 7am – 11pm www.hostelcafepdx.com 1-hour drive from Portland, BURGER 1810 NW Glisan St near hiking trails COUNT 503-417-8143 #pdxhostelcafe www.zigzagmountainfarm.com 503-922-3162 #zigzagmtnfarm 1,267,547 Enter your name for a monthly drawing. This month’s winner is Jim Harrison. 4th Saturday CleanUp Aug 28, 9am – 10am: help pick up litter in our neighborhood; sponsored by SOLVE. Nob Hill Bar & Grill Check out our website for more info or email [email protected]. 937 NW 23rd Avenue • 503-274-9616
nwexaminer.com / Northwest Examiner, AUGUST 2021 9 NEWS Pearl backpedals on Portland Street Response expansion
Pearl District Neighborhood Association President Stan Penkin (left) said Portland Street Response “is a program that’s not proven to work.” PDNA board member David Dysert said a similar program has been successful in Eugene for many years.
“I’m shocked,” said Tiffany Ham- mer, when told of PDNA’s about-face. Hammer co-chairs the Portland Pub- lic Safety Action Coalition and serves on the board of the Goose Hollow Foot- hills League, which also called for PSR y llan lassen ber most vociferously advocating for B A C expansion. expanding the program, was not happy larm ruled the day in June when “Just calling with the reversal. “We’re going to stay steadfast because the Pearl District Neighborhood we’re in a crisis,” she said, referring to [Portland Street “For crying out loud, Eugene has AAssociation board called for almost daily fires of tents as campers been doing this for 20 years!” Response] a failed rapid expansion of the Portland Street retaliate against each other. Response to serve the downtown area, (Eugene’s CAHOOTS program, a program isn’t While the council and PDNA claimed where disorder surrounding homeless model for Portland Street Response, enough.” camps was most evident. there is insufficient data to show Port- was established in 1989.) land Street Response has been success- – BettyLou Koffel Last month, the board concluded BettyLou Koffel took Dysert’s side. ful in its limited service area, Hammer that it had been hasty. took another view of the pilot project, Pearl District “We had a long conversation last After thinking it over, President Stan which has been handling only about Neighborhood month,” she said, “and now we’re hav- Penkin did not send a letter to the City ing another long conversation.” two calls per day. Association board Council as directed by a unanimous “If you’re not getting enough data, board vote (with three abstentions). Koffel called the criticisms of the member program anecdotal. go where you’re going to get the data,” “Quite honestly, I couldn’t write that she said. letter,” Penkin advised his board. “Just calling it failed isn’t enough,” she said. The program was expanded beyond He called the PSR pilot program, its original Lents base into the Monta- in which unarmed mental health and But the board agreed, with one villa neighborhood recently. abstention, that the matter should be medical technicians respond to emer- The Downtown Neighborhood Asso- tabled. gency calls, as “a failure,” citing prob- ciation and Southwest Hills Residen- lems with dispatch and long waits for Other Central City neighborhood tial League, likewise, saw no need responses. associations, faced with similar sit- to reconsider their earlier requests to “It’s a program that’s not proven to uations, held firm on their original bring PSR into the city core. n work,” Penkin said. calls for expanding Portland Street Response. Comment on nwexaminer.com David Dysert, the PDNA board mem- or email: [email protected]
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where the revenues million has been are distributed. Or in spent in broadly this case, where they defined North- are not distributed. “We have paid in west Portland, a category includ- Members of the over $17 million in ing Washington NWDA Planning the last 10 years Park in the South- Committee have com- piled a spreadsheet for a new park. … west quadrant and Having a best friend listing 29 projects We have received sprawling Forest built in the Northwest Park according - District since 2014. precisely none of to PP&R account ing. Almost all of in the kitchen. “We have paid in that.” the expenditures over $17 million in – Noel Johnson listed by the city the last 10 years for for Northwest That’s the Power of WE. a new park,” John- Northwest District Portland (83 per- son said. “The city of Association board cent) have gone Imagine your life having a complete support system. Portland is sitting on to Forest Park. that money. We have member and real It's like an extended family working together, The only spend- received precisely estate developer ing in the more supporting you, lifting you up, raising your spirits none of that.” limited neigh- To come up with borhood known and making life easier. Every day. Your meals, that figure, Johnson as the Northwest counted the number District has been your chores, even a hobby or two, all looked after of units in each new building and about $5,000 in its Slabtown subsec- tion. and taken care of. Smiles at every turn, multiplied by the rate per unit (rang- ing from $5,632 before 2015 to $6,472 So Johnson may not be right in say- a joke with a neighbor, a chef who knows just how now) and came up with $17,379,799. It ing none of the $17 million have been would be more if single-family houses, spent in the district. In fiscal year 2014- you like your favorite meal. A life thriving through which also pay SDCs, were included. 15, $3,397 was allocated for a Slabtown Park development charges aren’t park, and a year later, $1,970 for a connection. That’s senior living at NorthWest Place. even half of the story. But the charges property in the vicinity. An extremely for streets, water and sewer are based slim return on $17 million. on data unknowable without access to McNulty, who recently completed a city records. Johnson sought this infor- 64-unit apartment building on North- Lunch Learn mation but learned it was retained by west 23rd Avenue, said he paid nearly & different bureaus, each one requiring $1 million in SDCs on the project. Two th Wed., August 18 • 11:30am public records searches at considerable years ago, he suggested that the organi- cost. zation support a motion recommending Join us for an informative presentation on Parks investments, more visible than that all of that money be spent in the neighborhood. senior living and the exceptional services and underground utilities, also form a ref- erence point on the expenditure side “I’m dead serious,” he said. “This is safeguards offered. Afterwards, take a tour of the balance sheet that is understand- ridiculous.” able to the general public. of our beautiful community and enjoy No one took him up on the challenge. Parks SDC investments are not desig- As most at the table understood, SDCs a delicious lunch especially prepared by nated for any particular park or neigh- don’t work that way. Technically, a our culinary team. Seating is limited. borhood. Still, Northwest neighbor- share of revenues is supposed to be hood activists—eyeing Northwest 20th spent in the same district where it was To make a reservation, please call 503.446.1080. and Pettygrove, where a city park has generated, but since the city defines been in the works since 2012—are dis- only two districts—the central city and mayed that so little is going to an area the rest of the city—and a finger of that has paid so much. Northwest Portland where almost all Since the 2008-09 fiscal year, $1.64 of the recent construction has been
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The Carson apartment complex at Northwest 21st and Savier streets contributed $2.2 mil- lion in system development charges for its 384 apartment units in 2018.
System Development Charges spent in Northwest Portland
Fiscal year Amount Project cost/description 2019-20 $435,273 $278,511 Wildwood Bridge development $83,985 Forest Park entrance and trailhead $28,884 Forest Park restoration improvement $40,392 Forest Park property acquisition $3,500 Forest Park Linnton property acquisition 2018-19 $15,164 $83,116 Forest Park restoration $75,125 Forest Park Wildwood Bridge $20,425 Forest Park property acquisition $5,371 Kingsley Community Garden $-168,873 Forest Park entrance and trailhead 2017-18 $286,674 $283,225 Forest Park entrance and trailhead $3,450 Wildwood Bridge 2016-17 $585,043 happening is considered part of the as increasing the level of perfor- $557,754 Forest Park entrance and trailhead central city, that system does noth- mance or service of existing or new $27,288 Forest Park property acquisition ing to steer dollars into Northwest facilities. 2015-16 $175,799 Portland. $93,354 Forest Park entrance and trailhead Where could SDCs be spent to $79,600 Washington Park parking meters “The problem is that they gerry- help the Northwest cope with rapid $1,970 Conway property development mandered Conway [also known as growth? $874 Forest Park Balch watershed Slabtown] into the central city sub- 2014-15 $184,767 The planned Slabtown park is the district, giving them lots of plac- $55,899 Japanese Garden contribution most obvious answer. Portland Parks es to spend the money,” said Rick $3,396 Slabtown Park & Recreation has budgeted $5 million $125,471 Hoyt Arboretum land acquisition (TPL) Michaelson, a developer and former for that purpose to cover land acqui- 2013-14 0 NWDA president who served on the sition, design and construction of the 2012-13 0 Portland Planning Commission 16 park. Will that be enough? Assum- 2011-12 0 years. 2009-10 0 ing the land is donated as per an 2008-09 0 Steve Pinger, a development con- agreement with the developer of the 2007-08 $246,168 Forest Park land acquisition (Alder Ridge) sultant and longtime member of the western half of the block, perhaps. 2006-07 $7,500 Forest Park land acquisition (Alder Ridge) NWDA Planning Committee, said the But SDCs could ensure a better park Total $1,682,720 original idea of SDCs enabled by with greater capacity to serve the the Oregon Legislature in 1989 was community. sound: “You don’t want the existing Tanya March has served 18 years city to subsidize growth, i.e. public on the NWDA Parks Committee, money paying for private interests.” which she now chairs. She has given That was the picture in policymak- considerable thought to the best use ers’ minds in the 1980s. Subdivisions of system development charges. extending into farmland where no March believes at least two-thirds utility lines or streets existed posed of the revenues should be spent a measurable burden on the general in the neighborhoods where they treasury of cities. But when new con- were generated “as mediation for the struction is primarily infill of exist- impact these new developments have ing neighborhoods where infrastruc- on the adjacent community.” ture has been in place for decades if not a century, the need is for mainte- The other portion could go to com- nance of old and perhaps crumbling munities with new low-income hous- streets and pipes. ing units that are not required to pay SDCs. “That’s the fundamental dilemma of SDCs,” Pinger said. “Northwest “First priority should go to proj- Portland does not need new roads; ects serving residents and household we need maintenance of existing pets of the 3,000-plus new dwelling roads.” units—projects that will also benefit families and children and dog par- But SDCs cannot be used for main- ents who have no yards and live in tenance. the very density Portland planners Oregon law limits SDC funds “sole- cherish and exalt.” ly on capacity-increasing capital March also thinks members of the improvements,” which are defined
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impacted community should have a in the old Couch School/Metropolitan who was president of the Goose Hollow system of fees and credits … where voice in how remediation resources Learning Center building 14 years ago, Foothills League 2017-19, has studied impacts are generated,” he said. should be spent. a need further compounded by the loss SDCs and other forms of development In layman’s terms, if a bottle of syrup “The majority of these new resi- of the Hillside Community Center. impact assessments. has spilled on Aisle 17 in the super- dents were not involved in the master • A dog park with a Portland Loo under In the absence of development fees, market, it makes sense to mop up the plan for their community,” she said. “I the Thurman Street ramps [between costs caused by growth can be “pushed mess rather than clean a distant section would like to see a process for them to 19th and 20th avenues] with a water spig- off to someone else in the future, often of the store. have their voice.” ot accessible to all. the taxpayer,” he said. Joe McNeil, an NWDA board member March has ideas for possible projects, • A stage for concerts at Couch Park as Mehaffy was project manager for and recent father, said, “If we’ve learned which she emphasizes is only a person- spelled out in that master plan. Orenco Station, a planned develop- anything these past 18 months, it is that al wish list and not that of the commit- ment built in Hillsboro initiated in public space is vitally important to our • Replace the wading pool removed tee or neighborhood association. 1997. An independent study found that well-being. … As density increases in from Wallace Park last year. • Top priority: Fund the required alternative transportation investments the Northwest neighborhood specifical- decontamination of the site and cre- • Restrooms in Lower Macleay and substantially reduced auto trips and ly, it is imperative that we find more ation of a Slabtown Park as spelled out Couch parks and stations to fill water parking demand (each by about 50 opportunities for parks.” n in the Conway Master Plan. bottles. percent), justifying the targeted public expenditures. • A community center with a pool as Michael Mehaffy, an international Comment on nwexaminer.com promisedaugust_portlandmortgage_v3.pdf with the closure of the pool 1 8/4/21consultant 11:01 AM on sustainable development “I think it’s reasonable to have a or email: [email protected]
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Oregon state Sen. Betsy Johnson and Rep. Brad Witt cut the ribbon on an ADA ramp at Linnton Community Center last month. LCC Executive Director Susy Kristin (left) and LCC board member Pat Wagner joined the ceremony. The $25,000 project was completed with the aid of an $18,544 grant from the Northwest Parks and Recreation Fund.
Thomas Duane of the Tree Emergency The Bureau of Development Services is replacing the Response Team at Elisabeth Jones Art Cen- wooden trash rack over Balch Creek in Lower Macleay ter joined local artists in commemorating Park, where the stream is diverted into a culvert that endangered trees. Duane’s subject was an empties into the Willamette River. Photo by Matt Erceg approximately 144-year-old American elm tree in the South Park Blocks likely to be removed under a master plan adopted by the City Council last month. Duane’s col- ored-pencil drawing is entitled, “I’m only 144, I’m good for much more.”
Arlington Heights resident Mat- thew Walk (shown with his wife, Sarah) hiked 65 miles through Forest Park last month to raise funds for cystic fibrosis research. Eighteen people participated in the Xtreme Hike to raise $75,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
This man was photographed by a Pearl neigh- bor after painting graffiti on a utility box at Northwest 14th and Glisan streets on July 9.
Portland Police seized drugs, cash and firearms after checking on two semiconscious individuals in an A driver was killed in a three-car col- idling car at Southwest 20th and lision at Northwest 14th and Glisan Burnside streets July 27. David L. streets at 3 a.m., July 31, according to Carter, 52, of Portland and Aishanna Portland Police. Passengers from each R. Bottaro, 23, of Gresham were taken of the three cars were hospitalized, one into custody without incident and with serious injuries. The two other driv- charged with felonies. ers were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Photos by Wesley Mahan
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ALICE AMANDA APA-CLARKE BETH BOB BRIAN BRODY CATHI CLAY HSING RUST TEAM FLORA-HORTON HARRINGTON BUDKE CANNON RENDER LAMBOURNE 503.880.6842 503.830.7249 503.479.4561 503.706.6849 503.913.1296 503.310.5252 503.901.3658 971.806.2408 503.901.9781
COLEEN CONNIE DEBBIE DIRK DIXIE ELI ERIC GINGER HARRISON JONDAHL APA WALKER-QUINTANA HMURA ELLIOTT COTHAM MILD GREGORY WHITMARSH 503.318.3424 503.805.7474 503.820.1626 503.740.0070 503.320.6779 971.380.1363 503.550.3702 503.333.1390 503.432.5556
JASMIN JASON JAZZY JENI JENNIFER JENNY JEREMIAH JESSICA JOSH HAUSA CASSELL SOUERS WHITE HOLLAND JOHNSON BRANCH CORCORAN GAINER 971.645.1751 503.953.5444 951.847.1322 503.964.0576 971.334.1142 503.267.3412 971.806.2769 503.953.3947 503.805.3600
JULIE JULIE JUSTIN KATE KENDALL KERI KEVIN KIM KRISTEN SPEAR WILLIAMS NELSON MITCHELL WESTPHAL GEERS SUTHERLAND WILLIAMS BIER 503.209.9470 503.705.5033 669.251.3230 503.318.4800 971.998.5652 503.701.9851 971.371.0833 503.502.3573 503.734.7560
LAUREN LYNDA MEAGAN MEGAN MICHELE MICHELLE RAÚL REBECCA RENARD SINHA DOWLING-WU VAN EATON WESTPHAL SHEA-HAN SCOTT BENCOMO DONALDSON PENN 503.705.8636 503.810.6166 503.544.1080 971.998.3071 503.969.6147 503.737.4940 503.707.4619 503.269.0747 503.994.7366
RENÉE RYAN SAM SARAH SCOTT SHELLY STACY SYDNEY TAMARA HARPER GARRICK VU PITZMAN CALDWELL BROWN BUTCHART KEISTER NEWMAN 503.314.7691 971.506.6942 503.701.4773 971.322.8863 503.504.3007 971.221.2641 503.407.7525 503.730.0936 503.360.4159
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LEE DAVIES CHRIS KUEHL ABBEY FUJIYOSHI TIM TRACI VICTORIA WEDNESDAY 503.292.1500 CEO PRINCIPAL BROKER COO SHEA BINDER MARCHESE WILD-WILSON 503.997.1118 503.407.2414 503.964.3794 971.325.8750 971.317.1444 503.780.1937 503.287.3869 16Northwest Examiner, August 2021 / nwexaminer.com