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STAR PUBLISHING INC. STAR THE HOLLYWOOD FARM FRESH This season, the Hollywood Farmers Market will offer a series of special activitities for kids. PAGE 13 StarH SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH METROPOLITANHNEWS PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS H MAY 2015 H VOLUME 32, NUMBER 11 H PARKS PRO Portland Parks and Recreation has hired Mary Anne Cassin KATHY EATON: OUT AND ABOUT as a bond program manager. PAGE 6 Irvington IS EASY ON THE EYES PHOTOS BY: JUDY NELSON OUT AND ABOUT This month, Kathy and Judy visit Northeast Portland’s Irvington neighborhood, where they find Barb Hamilton, left, shopping at Trade Roots on N.E. Broadway. Tamara Patrick, right, says most of her customers come from the neighborhood. PAGE 14 CART COLONY Developer Rambo Halpern is putting the finishing touches on a food cart project in Cully. PAGE 7 BICYCLE BIJOU The Filmed by Bike Festival will move to a HOME SWEET HOME The Star’s special focus section REMEMBER The Vietnamese Community new home at the Hollywood Theatre this year and will kick off with on homes and gardens is chock full of ideas on tree care, of Oregon held a memorial for the anniversary a street party behind the Velo Cult Bike Shop and Tavern. PAGE 12 improving energy efficiency and more. PAGES 24-27 of the fall of South Vietnam. PAGE 10 97208 SIGNATURE GRAPHICS SIGNATURE PORTLAND, OREGON 97213 OREGON PORTLAND, PORTLAND, OR PORTLAND, PAID 2000 NE 42ND AVENUE PMB 142 PMB AVENUE 42ND NE 2000 POSTAGE U.S. NORTH AND NORTHEAST METRO NEIGHBORHOODS METRO NORTHEAST AND NORTH STANDARD NEWS STAR HOLLYWOOD THE PRESORTED H 2 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS MAY 2015 HSTAR DEVELOPMENT NEWS The Hollywood Star News City enacts demolition task “Council’s adoption of the Demolition Serving North and Northeast Task Force recommendations was the Portland Metropolitan Neighborhoods. force recommendations outcome of an inclusive and thoughtful Published monthly in Northeast Portland. On April 20th, Portland’s Bureau of process that engaged stakeholders from the www.star-news.info Development Services (BDS) formally community and the construction industry,” enacted regulations requiring all stated Amanda Fritz, Commissioner in Mailing Address residential building demolition permit Charge of BDS. “I thank the community 2000 N.E. 42nd Ave. PMB 142 applications to carry mandatory 35-day and industry volunteers, and the BDS Portland, OR 97213 delays before a permit would be issued and City staff, who were on the Task Office Address with a potential 60-day delay should there Force.” BDS Director Paul L. Scarlett 3939 N.E. Hancock, Suite 303 be an appeal. In addition, the City began added, “The new requirements provide Portland, OR 97213 notifying all owners of property within increased notification to neighbors, 150 feet of the requested demolition by while maintaining predictability in the Phone 503-282-9392 mail in addition to letting recognized permitting process for permit applicants organizations know about the application. BY PHILL COLOMBO and construction contractors. Mary DeHart Owner and Publisher The new Major Residential Alteration and [email protected] Beaumont Wilshire Neighborhood [email protected] Association Immediate Past President Al Addition (MRAA) building permit category Larry Peters Sales Manager Ellis chairs the city-wide group, United created by BDS also requires property homes, submit to BDS a new neighborhood [email protected] owners to e-mail recognized organizations notification form and new forms for Neighborhoods for Reform (UNR). Ellis within whose boundaries a demolition certification of asbestos and lead-based had mixed reaction to the regulations Nancy Woods Editor site lies, to post door hangers on abutting paint prior to a permit being issued. implemented in April: “UNR got [email protected] everything it wanted except for a 120-day Phill Colombo additional delay provision, which ended Community Development Reporter up as 60 days—up from no additional [email protected] delay days at all in the initial proposal,” Ellis said, “Neither side was totally Kathy Eaton Community Liaison satisfied with the end result, but that’s [email protected] the nature of compromise.” Ellis added that UNR will continue to stay engaged in Lisa Chiba Perkins advocating for additional reforms. Graphic Designer The new regulations stemmed from [email protected] City Council action during the summer Ted Perkins and Mary Ann Seeger of 2014 when commissioners directed Digital Media Production the Bureau of Development Services [email protected] to convene a Demolition Task Force [email protected] to address concerns about City Code regulation of one- and two-family home James Bash and Janet Goetze razings. Dubbed the Demolition Task Contributing Writers Force, the panel included members Judy Nelson and Jane Perkins from the Bureau’s Development Review Contributing Photographers Advisory Committee (DRAC), Historic Copyright Star Publishing Inc. Landmarks Commission, Design Review Editorial deadline: This single family home on Northeast 51st Avenue and Fremont Street was taken down in March. The city has enacted new 15th of the month before publication requirements to provide increased notification to neighbors for these kind of residential demolitions. 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Bremik Construction other interested citizens. of Portland was the general contractor. To bring all parties up to speed on the Elliot said he would work with new new regulations, BDS will host a one- tenants this summer to build interior hour information session on these code facilities to meet their needs. Three of the changes and processes Friday, May 8 at businesses will have two-door access, and noon, on the second floor of 1900 S.W. 4th there is also a second level for about one- Ave., Room 2500A. More information can third of the building. be found at www.portlandoregon.gov/bds. Irvington Historic New commercial delisting denial under appeal property aims to lionize Irvington property owners are appealing Alameda intersection Oregon’s State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation’s (SACHP) denial “Our goal is to engage the community of a petition to remove a portion of the with the type of tenants who will attract Irvington Neighborhood Historic district. business,” said William Elliott, who has Refusal to remove the northeast corner of spent the better part of the past two the district, bounded by Northeast Fremont years developing a parking lot into a Street to the north, Northeast 27th Avenue $2.8-million commercial real estate to the east (including the properties on investment. Elliott told The Hollywood the east side of the street up to Alameda Star News he represents the new building’s School), Northeast Knott Street to the owners, Joe and Stacey Squires, who reside south, and Northeast 21st Avenue to the within ten blocks of the property.