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Ducks look to corral Spartans Top-10 matchup in Eugene closely watched — SEE SPORTS, B10 PortlandTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY TribunePAPER • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY MERCURY RISING | Portlanders sweat through another summer in one of nation’s top ‘heat islands’ New zones give colleges, Hot enough for ya? hospitals room to grow Revamped land-use plan might create jobs in growth industries By STEVE LAW The Tribune For years in Portland, neighbors have often objected when colleges and hospi- tals tried to expand. Think about past tussles involving Lega- cy Good Samaritan Medical Center, the University of Port- “ There’s a land, Warner Pacifi c concern that and Reed colleges. Such friction is un- institutional derstandable, given zoning would that Portland’s hospi- tals and colleges are restrict mostly in residential neighborhood zones, yet they’re constantly growing. input into the They’ve been the big- institution’s gest source of new growth and jobs in the city for the past decade, and in relationship to the next 20 years, the hospitals and colleg- es are projected to neighborhood.” supply more than — Karen Karlsson, 23,000 new jobs in Northwest Portland Portland — one out of neighborhood activist every four, says Tom TRIBUNE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ Armstrong, supervis- Vivek Shandas, associate professor at PSU’s Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, hangs out with his son, Suhail, at the water fountain at Essex Park in ing planner for the Southeast Portland. Shandas is leading an effort to study and combat Portland’s “ urban heat island” problem. Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. Now city planners are trying to make Portland more supportive of these job-cre- By JENNIFER ANDERSON nights, set last year. ating engines, as they rewrite the city’s The Tribune It’s not just a fl uke. “It’s well understood that the im- See ZONING / Page 7 So long, hot summer. permeable surfaces store up heat For the past three months, it and release it at night, driving up seems, Portlanders have been temperatures,” says Alyson Ken- sweating, fl ocking to the coast and ward, a senior scientist and re- cranking up the air conditioning. searcher at Climate Central, a non- It wasn’t our hottest summer on profi t news organization that stud- record, but close. It was the third ies climate change. “There are more hottest summer since 1940, after people, more cars, more industry in scorchers in 2009 and 2004. cities.” Just before Labor Day weekend It all adds up to a phenomenon brought a bit of rain and cooler tem- called an “urban heat island” — fi rst peratures, Portland had seen 16 named in the 1970s and just coming days of 90-degree-or-higher temper- onto the public’s radar in the past COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND The University of Portland broke ground in May atures this June, July and August, PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP FILE PHOTO: JIM CLARK fi ve years. compared with an average of 12 An Aug. 20 report from Climate on its new Beauchamp Recreation and Wellness Children take advantage of the spray at Red Sunset Park to stay cool this summer. Center. The university, which has raised nearly days per year. The Portland area has seen more 90 - degree days this summer than in the past. Central helped put it on our radar, (Hillsboro had 19 days of 90-plus calling Portland out as the city with $ 2 0 0 million for new facilities, secured more degree temperatures; McMinnville the fourth-largest urban heat island fl ex ibility for building on its campus, which had 24; Corvallis 23; Salem 25, and Portland also is approaching a with 40 nights at or above 60 Portland planners propose as a new model for Eugene a whopping 28.) record for nighttime temperatures, degrees. The all-time record is 44 See HOT / Page 2 colleges, hospitals and even high schools. Group opens doors to Native homeownership Communal culture, Native American identity, may have contradicted the idea regularly attending pow- “ I don’t know any Native behind homeownership. lack of cash have wows and Friday night Bow Her mother’s rented house & Arrow Culture Club events Americans who own was always a welcoming, open kept numbers low at the Northeast Portland homes. We don’t have a one. Spotted Eagle recalls four Native American Youth and families in her home — one in By PETER KORN Family Center with her son, lot of role models in our the basement, one in the attic, a The Tribune Julius. community. Most relative on the couch and a tent “I don’t know any Native everybody I know moved with an uncle in the backyard. Angelique Spotted Eagle Americans who own homes,” “I remember growing up com- has lived in Portland most of she says. “We don’t have a lot around a lot.” munally,” she says. her life. A member of the of role models in our commu- — Angelique Spotted Eagle The prevailing culture in Blackfoot tribe, she has con- nity. Most everybody I know many Native American tribes scientiously maintained her moved around a lot.” historically has been commu- In October, NAYA will host helped Spotted Eagle. nal, says Leland Jones, spokes- its ninth annual Native Ameri- Spotted Eagle grew up on man for the U.S. Department of can homeownership fair, hop- public assistance with six Housing and Urban Develop- COURTESY OF NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER The Native American Youth and Family Center has helped 1 2 5 local ing to help Portland-area Na- brothers and sisters, so owning ment’s Pacific Northwest Re- tive Americans deal with the a home never seemed finan- gion. Individual homeowner- families purchase homes, and many of those families learned about process of buying a home in cially attainable. She also grew home buying at NAYA’s annual home ownership fair. Last year’s fair, much the same way as it has up with a cultural heritage that See HOMES / Page 1 1 depicted here, had close to 1 5 0 people attending. “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that refl ects the MORMONS MARK 25 YEARS IN BRILLIANT TEMPLE stories of our communities. Thank you — SEE WEEKEND LIFE, PAGE B1 for reading our newspapers.” Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR 487617.090414 A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, September 4, 2014 T ell y o ur self y o u lo ve the weather — and y o u will By JENNIFER ANDERSON The Tribune There are two kinds of Oregonians: Those who don’t want summer to end, and those who already are dreaming about Both adults and pumpkin spice lattes in August. children stay We have mixed feelings about summer in cool at the water Oregon. play feature at “Initially we’re happy in hot weather, but Blue Lake Park I think the longer we’re exposed to it, the during this less happy we get,” says summer’s hot John Grohol, a Massachu- days. setts-based psychologist “ People PAMPLIN MEDIA who is founder of an on- here love GROUP FILE PHOTO: line mental health tool JIM CLARK called Psych Central. the While it’s not a huge ar- weather. ea of study, psychologists have looked into the link And they between people and their love griping Hot: PSU study looks for solutions surroundings and found about that that weather defi nitely im- ■ From page 1 Shandas says these spots are pacts both our mood and time when true rural areas, unlike some other the way we relate to one it becomes Parks, pools, A/C installers keep the cool cities’ rural areas, which actually another. index in the United States. That’s to might be suburban towns. That In general, Grohol says, too much. say Portland, as a metropolitan When the temperature heats that. Those that have it say ‘Come might account for some of the rea- people adapt to their re- What’s area, is signifi cantly hotter than its up, people love their parks. now’ (when it breaks). ... There’s son the temperature disparity is so gion’s climate, and when rural areas, due to our industrious Portland Parks & Recreation one stretch of heat when people stark. confronted with change great is it activities. set a record for attendance at just can’t take it any more.” KPTV chief meteorologist Mark unusual to the region — brings all of Portland’s urban-rural divide is 7.8 their dive-in movies, with 1,594 A whopping 82 percent of Port- Nelsen surmises that the urban like a heat wave — things us degrees, just behind Las Vegas, people at fi ve showings of “The land residents now have air condi- heat island effect here might be due can get hairy. Albuquerque and Denver. Seattle, Lego Movie.” tioning in their home, compared to the fact that Portland has foot- “People can have short- together.” which ranked No. 10, was the only “Weather, we’re confident, with 33 percent in 1995, according hills and mountains relatively close er tempers, just have less — Brian other Pacifi c Northwest city of the 60 played a huge role,” parks spokes- to Portland General Electric. Fif- to the city so it cools off even quick- patience for things they’d Detweiler- Bedell, surveyed. man Mark Ross says. ty-five percent of those homes er than one might expect in the out- ordinarily have more pa- Lewis & Clark Vivek Shandas, an associate pro- In addition, more than 2,000 have central air; 27 percent have a lying areas.