Halloween happenings There’s plenty to do in Portland area — SEE LIFE, B1 PortlandTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPERTribune • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Trust government? Fuhgeddaboudit dents, but there is no majority the Oregon Legislature. In the But 67 percent also said candi- were more dissatisfied than New poll reveals most voters are from any group on the other side. DHM survey conducted recently, dates for governor, and 68 per- Democrats. Yet by an almost identical ma- only 27 percent saw their city cent said candidates for U.S. sen- In the race for senator, dissatis- dissatisfi ed as crucial election nears jority of 58 percent, Oregonians government favorably, and 28 ator, were not addressing the is- faction came most from outside also say they do not trust their percent had similar feelings for sues they thought the election the Willamette Valley and the By PETER W ONG of fi cials N ov. 4 . state and local governments to their county government. should focus on — even though Portland area. While a majority The Tribune By a substantial majority of 59 spend their money wisely. According to other recent sur- there was no consensus on what of 61 percent felt no change from percent, they say Oregon’s sys- In a different DHM Research veys by DHM Research, 51 per- those issues are. previous elections, 24 percent Oregonians, like other tem of government may have its survey conducted last month for cent of voters sampled felt Ore- Men were more dissatisfied said they had more enthusiasm A mericans, do not trust problems but is sound. Demo- Oregon Public Broadcasting, 11 gon was going in the right direc- than women in both races. and 15 said they had less for the their government even as crats are more likely to say so percent strongly approved and 35 tion; 39 percent, on the wrong In the race for governor, Re- they prepare to elect new than Republicans and indepen- percent “somewhat” approved of track. publicans and independents See POLL / Page 5 College banners in the Hall of Dreams at Alder C ity ’s gro w th School remind students in Portland’s lowest-income school of their plan hits the special status as the only school in the country adopted by I b u sy streets Have A Dream. TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JAIME VALDEZ Focused development could transform areas by creating walkable neighborhood districts By STEVE LAW includes downtown, the Lloyd, The Tribune Pearl and South Waterfront dis- tricts. Another 50 percent of the E ighty-S econd A venue — residential growth is pegged for known more f or used-car lots outlying neighborhood commer- and prostitutes than b icyclists cial centers, business districts and b rewpub s — is not ex actly and corridors like Sandy Boule- a poster child f or P ortland’ s vard and 82nd Avenue. vaunted land-use planning Robert McCullough, president and q uality of lif e. of the Southeast Uplift Neighbor- But Portland is now plotting hood Coalition, is skeptical Port- where to house a quarter-million land faces that much population additional residents in the next growth, but he likes the city’s 20 years, and city planners say approach. 82nd Avenue must do its part. “The idea of actually focusing As planners redo the city’s development along transporta- comprehensive land-use plan for tion corridors makes a lot more Dreams pay off the fi rst time in 35 years, they’re sense,” McCullough says, According to a Harvard trying to channel the bulk of the and it’s in sync with economic Business School study, I growth into the central city and reality. “It doesn’t destroy the Have A Dream Oregon established business districts, character of the city that people spends $45,483 per neighborhood centers and com- fi nd so attractive.” student in the third-grade mercial strips, including nearly But guiding growth to existing classes it adopts — from 5,000 more apartments on 82nd corridors and neighborhood cen- tutors in third grade PORTLAND HAS A Avenue. By doing that, planners ters means increased density, through college-prep advis- ers as the Dreamers fi nish hope to preserve the city’s resi- and many residents “are going to high school. The lifetime dential neighborhoods much as freak out about that growth,” benefi t in increased earn- they are, without jolting changes. Engstrom says. So he and other ings for individuals, taxes “We don’t need city planners are paid, and reduced costs to to plow under trying to fashion society for each of those Buckman and El- “W hat’s happening on ways to make children comes to iot with a sea of neighborhood $568,175. Division is going to rowhouses,” says commercial dis- Eric Engstrom, continue to happen on tricts — like DREAM principal planner streets like that.” Lents, Hollywood college educations. In addition, for the Portland and Hillsdale — — Eric Engstrom, Local version of these Dreamer classes are pro- Bureau of Plan- into bustling, in- Portland Bureau of vided coordinators who bring in ning and Sustain- viting centers I Have A Dream Planning and Sustainability mentors and tutors and arrange ability. “What’s where residents model gives special programs, because Lang happening on Di- can fi nd most ev- realized soon after his an- vision is going to continue to hap- erything they need within a students resources, nouncement that his families pen on streets like that.” 20-minute walk or short bike ride and children couldn’t put up In the new “comp plan,” plan- — without marring surrounding not just money, without help. ners are trying to accommodate residential areas. Leave it to Oregon to aban- roughly 30 percent of the new “It’s really our strategy for to succeed in life don that model and develop a housing projected over the next new one now being watched by 20 years in the central city, which See GROW TH / Page 13 I Have A Dream chapters STORY BY throughout the country. Three years ago the Oregon I Have A PETER KORN Dream chapter decided to change course on Lang’s prom- ise. Rather than adopt another his isn’t what Eugene Alder School student Fred Jiminez looks up at the banners from class with the lure of college Lang had in mind. colleges across the country hanging from the rafters of the school scholarships, it decided to adopt Lang is the wealthy gym. As much as 60 percent of students in I Have A Dream adopted an entire school, with a lesser industrialist who stood classes have gone on to post-high school education. But adopting an emphasis on providing college T entire school is presenting the foundation with new challenges. up before a third-grade class at tuition. his East Harlem elementary The idea, according to Mark school alma mater 31 years ago ahead in America. Stepping to children whose lives had Langseth, president of I Have A prepared to make a speech the podium, Lang changed his lacked hope and opportunity Dream Oregon, is to bring the about the value of working hard speech. He told the students — put up or shut up. Lang benefi ts of the Dreamer model and how everybody could get that he would guarantee college gave those kids hope and, it not just to a low-income class or tuition for every one of them appeared, opportunity. a school, but potentially to all who graduated high school. He also created a foundation Portland-area schools. Lang’s surprise announce- — I Have A Dream — that today “We want to make a bigger TRIBUNE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ ment was blockbuster news at has chapters in 13 states, where difference in schools and neigh- Portland planning bureau spokeswoman Eden Dabbs and city planner the time. Maybe not intention- money is raised, classes are borhoods,” Langseth says. Bill Cunningham compare an artist’s rendering of what the corner of ally, Lang appeared to be say- adopted, and students are told Southeast Division Street and 82nd Avenue might look like in the future ing to the families of those they will have money for their See DREAM / Page 2 with what it looks like now. “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that refl ects the SYMMONDS SPEAKS OUT stories of our communities. Thank you — SEE SPORTS, PAGE B12 for reading our newspapers.” — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. 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But Fred some extra work has been at Alder School in far Southeast Portland A list of college since kindergarten and already he’s taken on a vocabulary By PETER KORN Dreamer view of academics. “It’s like a marathon,” words in the The Tribune Fred says. “You start in kindergarten and go all Alder School the way to high school.” hallway is part Paz Ramos was principal at Alder School In fourth grade, Fred read at the third-grade lev- of the process of three years ago when I Have A Dream was el.