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0207-PT-A Section.Indd All that jazz YOUR ONLINE LOCAL Why so good? Big acts make Portland DAILY NEWS Winterhawks started fast Jazz Festival bounce www.portlandtribune.com and haven’t let up Portland— See LIFE, B1 Tribune— See SPORTS, B8 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAY Project ■ Swastikas? Indoor miniature horses? Property Eastside backers owners, tenants often at loggerheads on what’s allowed parks get kick for $800,000 refunds DREAMSTIME.COM makeover Diaper book delay VALDEZ JAIME TRIBUNE PHOTO: City to craft a presents a dilemma bond plan drawing for Web funding sites on E205 success By SAMANTHA SIGLER By JENNIFER ANDERSON The Tribune The Tribune A Portland mother has at- SUGAR GLIDER IGUANA Eighteen months ago, the tracted a “mob of hating MEET parks in East Portland were stalkers” after using the as bare as they get. Barren popular crowdfunding web- YOUR NEW fi elds, hardly a water foun- site, Kickstarter.com, to tain or park bench to speak raise $7,000 for a photo book NEIGHBORS of. Play structures and picnic on cloth diapers. tables were unheard of. And That’s according to Jamie DREAMSTIME.COM trails? Not so much. Wilkinson, the 30-year-old Enter the city’s E205 initia- mother, who admits she failed tive, an ambitious effort by Port- to deliver her project on time land Parks & Recreation to im- and did not communicate that prove 12 of those existing park to her “backers,” as they are spaces on a small budget, rela- called. tively speaking. Some backers, 52 to be ex- With Commissioner Nick act, created a private Face- HOLLAND MICHAEL DURHAM & MELINDA BY PHOTO Fish at the book group to discuss what helm, the City actions to Council in- “For 160 take after vested “People are Wilkinson $500,000 to the years we’ve never said she MINI HORSE SPOTTED FROG effort, which invested in would no lon- they leveraged realistic ger be able to with $300,000 our system, about the complete the in private but our book within funds raised unfi nished projects the year, as by the Port- they intend she had ex- land Parks work is to make. pected. Foundation. providing “If she’s still When housing rights clash, Last week, equity in It’s very doing the the council common to book, I would celebrated the East still be happy completion of see to be a spon- the project, Portland.” extreme sor,” says Lisa under budget — Nick Fish, city someone is shown the door commissioner Carey, owner and on time. delays.” of the Califor- Less than — Ethan Mollick, nia-based bout eight years ago, an apartment renter called the nation that eventually led to a promise of annual surveys of $250,000 was The Wharton Green Diaper Fair Housing Council of Oregon to lodge a com- Portland-area rental housing. Although the council’s study spent at each of the sites. School of the Store, who is plaint. Black tenants, he said, were being discrimi- was fl awed, it pointed to trouble spots in the city. “If this news were a Holly- University of one of the Anated against. He felt pressured to move out. The Fair Housing Council gets about 4,000 complaints about wood movie, it would be the Pennsylvania Facebook The man said he was leaving, but he wanted the council to housing discrimination each year, up from 3,000 just two years feel-good story of the year,” group leaders. know about the situation. The crux of his complaint concerned ago. The increase may be partially due to Portland’s tight rent- Commissioner Steve Novick She donated $500 to what she the building manager’s own apartment. That’s al market, McGuire says. Landlords can get said at the Jan. 30 council meet- thought was a “wonderful where renters had to go if they wanted to drop STORY BY stricter about whom they rent to, and those who ing. project.” off a check, or request a maintenance repair. don’t qualify are more likely to feel they were Fish says he’s proud of his “But I feel like I lost $500,” The manager’s apartment, the renter said, PETER KORN treated unfairly. But there’s one thing about the parks employees, who took on Carey adds. “That’s a lot of was adorned with white supremacist posters complaints coming in that McGuire says she can the initiative on top of their ex- money for a small business.” and a Nazi fl ag. That sounded like a potential count on — some really tough decisions. isting projects, since most of the Carey says there was little case of housing discrimination to Pegge McGuire, executive “Housing providers look at the equation as, ‘This is my work was done in-house to cut communication after Wilkin- director of the council. property, it’s an investment, it’s a business, it affects my liveli- costs. son received the pledged mon- But McGuire, who took the reins of the council in March 2012 hood,’ ” McGuire says. “Consumers look at the issue from the He’s grateful for the partners ey, and now she is unsure (after a controversial 2011 for the nonprofi t that included the perspective, ‘This is my home.’ And home is a very, very emo- who supported the project, and whether she wants a refund. city of Portland temporarily suspending work with the agen- tional issue.” glad for the park users who now Wilkinson, who works in cy), knew that the difference between perceived and illegal Consider the Southeast Portland apartment manager with get to enjoy the beautifi ed spac- Northeast Portland, declined discrimination can often be very nuanced. the Nazi decorations. McGuire sent staff to investigate. She es, since 40 percent of families the Tribune’s requests for an A 2011 fair-housing law compliance study by the Fair Hous- in the city live in East Portland, interview, but instead posted a ing Council for the city found several problems with discrimi- See HOUSING / Page 2 he says. statement on her Kickstarter “Our big challenge is bring- page explaining that she was ing justice to East Portland,” unable to complete her project Fish says. “It’s not going to be due to a lack of funds and per- “Apparently there are cultural issues with people of an easy lift. ... For 160 years sonal issues. She still wants to we’ve invested in our system, complete the project, but isn’t but our unfi nished work is pro- sure when that will actually the same sex using the same bathroom.” viding equity in East Portland.” happen. — Bob Loewen, Corvallis housing program specialist Fish will also use the success “Honestly, I’m just an every- to boost public support for a day struggling mom who was new parks bond measure. “We genuine in trying to launch have the mayor’s full support,” this project,” Wilkinson wrote Fish says. “We are preparing in her statement. for a November ballot.” The confl ict between Wilkin- The preparation includes son and her Kickstarter back- Cartlandia wins over hearts conducting private polling to ers raises an issue in today’s gauge public support for a crowdfunding world: Who’s ac- parks bond, and how large the countable when a project is ask might be. “Dollars are very delayed? scarce these days,” he says. Crowdfunding — raising of 82nd Avenue community They’ll also reach out to pri- money for a project by using vate donations and stakehold- the Internet and having many Food cart pod’s ‘citizen ers. people make small contribu- TribTown If they get a green light, Fish tions to achieve that goal — is watch’ boosts sagging and his staff will assemble a growing in popularity. There 82nd AVENUE package of potential capital are about 926 Portland Kick- neighborhood projects to include in the bond, starter projects, compared 82nd Avenue. taking into consideration a bal- with 903 in Seattle, 1,200 in San By STEVE LAW You might call it Cartlandia ance between regionality, the Francisco and 3,100 in Los An- The Tribune watches “Portlandia” in the size of projects, and a balance geles. middle of Carlandia. between types of facilities — na- Since it started in April 2009, It’s one of those Portland Despite the modest turnout, ture, recreational and more tra- Kickstarter has helped match scenes that prompts people Cartlandia is demonstrating ditional types of parks. more than $450 million donat- to remark, as so often oc- that food carts, when done At the same time, the parks ed by 3 million people with curs these days, that it right, can fl ourish in a low-in- budget will be under scrutiny, 35,000 successful projects. seems “right out of ‘Port- come Portland neighborhood along with every other bureau About 50,000 proposed projects landia.’ “ — and maybe even help turn it in the city’s budgeting process. failed to raise their goals and Ten hardy souls are sipping around. Mayor Charlie Hales has asked received no money through drinks on a chilly Friday night When Roger Goldingay each bureau director to identify the website. at the outdoor beer garden of bought the abandoned used- 10 percent of their programs “We’re really just focused on the Cartlandia food carts, car lot in October 2010, it was that could be cut, which Fish is creating a platform to be able watching the latest “Portland- TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT enclosed by a screened cyclone preparing. to allow creators and backers ia” episode on a big TV screen Jim Ginotti pours a beer into a red cup inside the Cartlandia beer fence topped with barbed wire “After many years of cuts, we over the din of a portable heat- garden for a customer.
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