Guard duty YOUR ONLINE LOCAL Record rebound Damian Lillard shines DAILY NEWS Music Millennium survives, as Blazer rookie www.portlandtribune.com thrives in tough business — PortlandSee SPORTS, B8 Tribune— See LIFE, B1 THURSDAY,DAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • PUBLISHED THURSDAY Adams jockeys HERE COME THE CABS Hayden solution Neighbors wary of compromise to open land for port project By STEVE LAW The Tribune Mayor Sam Adams’ 11th- hour gambit to win city annex- Portland offi cials ation of west Hayden Island are hoping to isn’t winning over skeptics. discourage cab Adams proposed Friday that drivers from the Port of Portland pony up $32.6 million to ease environ- waiting in line at mental and health impacts from the airport its planned three marine termi- bullpen. Broadway nals along the Columbia River, if Cab driver Dacho the city annexes the port’s Geda is among 800-acre Hayden Island site and those willing to zones 300 of the acres for indus- wait as long as two try. hours for a ride. But as the city Planning and Sustainability Commission takes up the proposal tonight, there’s still widespread “It just feels opposition ■ like the from island Taxis will proliferate in Portland residents community’s and environ- being bought mentalists. under new, but controversial, rules And port off, sort of. leaders are ortland has never been a taxi city. Mayor Sam Adams would like to see that We’re reluctant to Streetcars, bikes and light rail have change. He is supporting a sweeping set of seeing right put up all captured our interest much more proposals intended to remake the taxi indus- the cash P than the idea of try in Portland. The pro- through it.” that Adams being able to run curb- posals were presented to — Pam Ferguson, wants up side, hold out a hand and Story by Peter Korn the City Council Nov. 7. Hayden Island front with- fl ag down a crosstown Photos by Christopher Onstott The idea is to improve Manufactured Home out rent- ride on the spot. working conditions and Community Home paying ten- Portland taxi drivers wages for the city’s taxi Owners Association ants in will attest to the “poor relations” attitude to- drivers, many of whom cannot fi nd enough hand. ward taxis in the Rose City. A study commis- fares to pull their earnings up to minimum The lame- sioned by the city this year revealed that taxi wage. Part of the proposed solution takes a duck mayor placed west Hayden Broadway Cab driver Red Diamond organized an unsuccessful rally at drivers on average make $6.22 an hour, well very counterintuitive approach that has most Island on his mayoral bucket list City Hall three weeks ago to protest a rate hike and the city permitting below the state’s $8.80 an hour minimum before leaving office at year’s 78 new cabs. wage. See TAXIS / Page 2 end. That could earn him a lega- cy for preserving 500 acres of urban forest and other open “It seems enormously backward to say drivers are not making enough money, so what we want to do is increase space while providing 300 acres for hundreds of well-paying in- the number of permits out there. There is a law of supply and demand.” — STEPHEN KAFOURY, PORTLAND ATTORNEY REPRESENTING BROADWAY CAB CO. dustrial jobs. — KEVIN HARDEN, TAXI DRIVER To do that, Adams is pushing for speedy approval of the an- nexation and zone change by the planning commission, so the City Council can give its fi nal OK in December. First, he’ll have to contend Latest Colwood plan gains support with dozens of critics expected to testify tonight, including two ■ Park By STEVE LAW al site next to Portland International Air- busloads from Oregon’s largest The Tribune port that could be host to 825 jobs. mobile home park located a land, Signifi cant environmental and trans- half-mile from the terminal site. If Don Goldberg pulls it off, golfers portation hurdles remain, but Goldberg Adams’ proposal “kind of cre- industry might be the only ones left complain- hopes to submit his proposal to the city Airplanes take ated a lot of uncertainty and a could ing. within a month and seek a zone charge off and land lot of anger,” says Pam Fergu- Goldberg, a senior project manager for hearing next spring. while golfers son, president of the Hayden Is- replace the nonprofi t Trust for Public Lands, is Public response has fl ipped 180 degrees tee-off from the land Manufactured Home Com- golf winning praise from neighborhood, busi- from four years ago, when the Honolulu- sixth green at munity Home Owners Associa- ness and environmental leaders for his based Saunders Family Trust asked the the Colwood Golf tion. “It just feels like the com- course bid to buy two-thirds of Colwood National city to rezone its private golf course for Course near munity’s being bought off, sort Golf Course for a future park and rezone industrial use. The golf course, still in use Portland of. We’re seeing right through the rest of the site for industry. until the property sells, is zoned for open International it.” The package deal ultimately could lead space. Airport. A health impact report by to a large public open space in Northeast “You had pretty much everyone outside TRIBUNE PHOTO: Multnomah County and two Portland’s parks-starved Cully neighbor- CHRISTOPHER nonprofi ts found that diesel fuel hood, plus a rare “shovel-ready” industri- See COLWOOD / Page 4 ONSTOTT from trains and trucks could nearly triple the amount of can- cer-causing air toxins in the im- mediate area, which already are 20 times higher than the state Downtown warms benchmark. That could imperil people with asthma and other lung ailments, says Dr. Gary Ox- to holiday ‘pop-ups’ man, Multnomah County health offi cer. “A bad-pollution day could tip north of Hood River. them over the edge and bring Tiny shops show It’s not just quirky, but is also them to the hospital,” Oxman their value for city, practical, says Carol Thayer, told fellow planning commis- who owns the business with her sioners at a Tuesday briefi ng on local entrepreneurs husband, Rick Daugherty. the health report. “It’s four times warmer than Neighbors also are concerned By JENNIFER ANDERSON wool, weighs half as much as about trucks that will zip by on The Tribune wool and wicks away twice as North Hayden Island Drive, the Jessica Spencer much sweat,” she says. entrance to the mobile home (left) and Julie Portlanders who already Since 2008, Thayer and park. Dieringer look at embrace the “shop local” Daugherty have run their shop To address such concerns, a neckless while and “eat local” ethos, can in Hood River, showcasing the Adams proposed that the port now they “dress local” too. handcrafted skirts, coats, baby shopping at a pay $3.6 million to the city Hous- A new downtown store called sweaters, socks, gloves, long Pop-Up shop in ing Bureau to help mitigate for Enchanted Alpaca features at johns and other creations by downtown the health impacts. Mobile least 40 types of “fi eld to fash- about a dozen local artists who home owners could get money Portland. ion” products made from the use their alpaca wool. to install better windows and TRIBUNE PHOTO: wool of alpaca raised in Glen- CHRISTOPHER wood, Wash., about 35 miles See POP-UPS / Page 9 See HAYDEN / Page 8 ONSTOTT “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune Crash cuts off ■ A 27-year-old man was arrested early Wednesday morning when the black BMW he was driving crashed deliver balanced news that refl ects the MAX traffi c onto MAX tracks near the Sunset Transit Center, blocking westside train traffi c for hours. Search: MAX. stories of our communities. Thank you Online for reading our newspapers.” Read it fi rst at portlandtribune.com — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN, JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, November 15, 2012 Taxis: City says demand to rise with service ■ oury. From page 1 “It’s a build-it-and-they-will- come philosophy,” he says. “If of the current drivers up in arms they put out taxis in Sellwood — put more cabs on the street. and Lents, people will start us- Portland permits 382 taxis, ing them. It might happen.” with one permitted taxi often If cost is a reason Portland- shared between two drivers. ers don’t take cab rides, the Kathleen Butler, who oversees proposed new rules aren’t go- taxis as regulatory division ing to make cabs more attrac- manager in the city’s Revenue tive. Adams’ plan includes in- Bureau, says there are many creasing fees to the cab compa- more people who would like to nies and increasing the meter be cab drivers. The hard-to-get rate charged to cab customers permits don’t go directly to driv- by 10 cents a mile. Some of that ers, but instead are granted to extra revenue will help fund in- companies (Broadway Cab is the spectors to enforce the new largest) that hire drivers as pri- rules. vate contractors. It’s a situation Gary Blasi, a University of that has bred what Butler calls a California Los Angeles law pro- “regulated monopoly,” with ma- fessor who has studied the taxi ny of the problems monopolies industry, is skeptical that put- seem to encourage. ting out more cabs and provid- A nearly endless supply of ing a better taxi experience is drivers — many are new immi- going to grow the market sig- grants — means the cab compa- nifi cantly.