ELIOT NEWS A Publication of Eliot Neighborhood Association Volume 23 · Number 1 Winter 2014 Street Sign Caps and More Trees Coming to Eliot By Angela Kremer safe? ing the sign cap, though fabrication, he Beauty and Livability In September, the Beauty group and, installation through the Street Committee was formed in held a walking tour focusing on the Caps program of the Portland Bu- tree inventory and looking at where reau of Transportation. 2012 to implement the Sign Cap for ‘Alphabet District’ - T to build identity between Wiedler to The Beauty committee also in- Neighborhood Livability Partner- these are all over NW Portland ship. This one-of-a-kind Partnership Tillamook, from MLK to the free- cludes a Tree team headed up by Jeff between the Lloyd Community As- way. This walking tour highlighted Ramsey, who joined the committee sociation, Eliot neighborhood, and the problems of the Wiedler and in December and will be leading the Portland Arena Management Broadway area, but also positive Tree Inventory and planting efforts. (Trail Blazers) is a unique oppor- improvements like the new store- The Tree team is developing partner- tunity for political support, collabo- fronts and buildings occupants like ships with the Friends of Trees and ration and physical investments. The the Community Cycling Center. Boise neighborhood and welcome focus of improvement is the area During the September Beauty volunteers for these upcoming between Weidler and Russell from tour the group decided it is best to Spring events. Sign Cap for ‘Historic Irvington’ south to north and between NE 7th to focus on positive impacts on a The Beauty team is looking for the river, an area plagued by sports- streetscape level. In 2014, the Beau- additional members to help with de- related traffic and parking issues. In ty committee will prioritize two pro- sign, outreach, and funding. For ex- April of 2013, the Eliot Board of jects: the street sign caps project and ample, the Beauty team and the Eliot Directors voted to accept funding expanding the street trees into the Board of Directors are developing from the Neighborhood Livability areas along major corridors like outreach, see the sample Eliot Beau- Partnership for two projects. The MLK and Broadway/Wiedler. The ty survey in this issue and posted on Board approved the funds for plant- Street Cap project consists of in- the website. The committee also Bicycle Sign Cap ing 14 street trees and the Intersec- stalling the “street caps,” a fabricat- wants to reach out to business own- tion Repair, a painting on Tillamook ed metal additional sign, to the exist- ers and large landowners for ideas and Rodney Avenue, completed by ing street signs in selected areas. The and sponsorships, particularly of Bird is the Word over 50 volunteers who designed City Bureau of Transportation street caps and other improvements By Mike Warwick and completed the project in June charges $75 per cap to install the like trash receptacles. The Street 2013. Unused funding from 2013 over the street signs but its up to the Cap team offers volunteers the satis- he spotted owl has been a will roll forward since the funding committee to design the map show- faction of immediate results while flash point for forest man- from the Trail Blazers offers three- ing where, how many, and what sec- meeting great people who live near- agement in Oregon for tions are installed first. The actual by. T consecutive years at $5,000 per year decades, but how many of us have for improvements. The Beauty team fabricated cap must be designed; The next meeting of the Beauty actually seen one, or its nemesis, the is hoping that they will be able to typically these caps indicate the Committee is on January 28 at 6:15 barred owl? I haven’t, and I grew up partner with landowners for match- neighborhood or historic district p.m.- 8 p.m. at Koch Landscape Ar- in a logging community. My impres- with an artistic symbol or icon. You chitects, 2nd and Wielder. The Eliot ing funds to implement larger pro- nd sion was that the spotted owl was a jects. can see samples of the sign caps Board also meets on the 2 Monday small, reclusive bird that was easily Last June, the Eliot Neighbor- from other neighborhoods such as at 6:30 p.m. at the Emanuel Medical intimidated by habitat change and hood Beauty Committee posed a St. Johns or Alberta and the Office Building, West Conference being driven from its normal range question for all readers of the Eliot bikeways also have orange bicycle Room, 501 North Graham Street. by the much larger barred owls in- News: sign caps as well. The sign caps are Please contact Angela at vading from the east. Imagine my not paid for by the City but require [email protected] if you What great ideas do you have surprise when my daughter claimed fundraising or Business District in- are interested in getting involved in for making Eliot more beautiful and to have seen a large owl in her back- vestment covering the costs of mak- either of these projects. ● yard on Russell by MLK last Octo- ber. Shortly thereafter, I saw a Our Voices Were Not Heard crowd in the middle of Thompson by NE 11th staring in the air at a By SmartGrowthPDX large owl. I was able to return with First appeared October 28th on my camera and took this picture. It www.eliotneighborhood.org was a barred owl, which I found out t was with high hopes that is about 16 inches tall – similar to residents of the Eliot and the spotted owl, so not small at all. I Boise neighborhoods took Mike Warwick can be reached at time out of their days to be active [email protected] ● participants in the Design Advice Request (DAR) on Thursday. This was likely our last chance to voice our concerns over the development of the lot at NE Williams and Fremont and the future development of the overall neighborhood that each one of us has invested quite personally in. When City Council approved the zoning change from R1 to RXd, it was stated that the DAR hearing would be our guarantee of The “Aleta” Proposed Development at N Williams and Fremont finding that middle ground where Our voices were not heard. Our tails of the building. This was very neighbors and developer would concerns were not addressed. Intelli- difficult for us to sit and listen to. meet. This was not that place. It felt gent discussions about the impact of How is it possible that we’re already more like being stuck on a boat in a building of this scale on the adja- debating about materiality and de- the middle of the ocean, trying to cent homes and neighborhood were tails of the façade without analyzing yell for help to the mainland. And not made. Instead, it became a three the larger context? How do you talk we only get to yell for three minutes. hour discussion on the minute de- (Continued on page 7) Barred Owl in Eliot 1 1 Eliot Neighborhood Association The Eliot Neighborhood Association is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose members are the residents and business owners of the Eliot Neigh- borhood. Its purpose is to inform Eliot residents about issues affecting the neighborhood through meetings, newsletters and other activities. Members of the neighborhood association must be over 14 years old and live, own property, have a business, or represent a nonprofit within the neighbor- hood. The Eliot Neighborhood Association was founded in 1969. It is recog- nized by the City of Portland, is a member of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, Inc., and its members represent Eliot on other commit- tees. Eliot Board Pending Listings bed bath sq ft price Chair Alan Sanchez – [email protected] (503) 288-4489 302 NE Fremont 3 1.1 1934 $250,000 Vice Chair Angela Kremer – [email protected] (503) 284-9136 501 NE Monroe 3 3 2880 $335,000 News Editor Allan Rudwick - [email protected] (503) 703-3910 Treasurer Annie Rudwick - [email protected] (503) 460-3078 Recorder Kristen Yates - [email protected] (503) 802-0299 Sold Listings bed bath sq ft price Nancy Zimmermann – (503) 758-4856 2821 NE Rodney 5 5 2016 $319,000 Jim Hlava – [email protected] (509) 998-3406 2926 NE Rodney 3 2 2016 $336,500 Joan Ivan – [email protected] (503) 265-5868 Johnny Engleheart-Noel – [email protected] (503) 875-1213 526 NE Stanton 3 1.1 3766 $369,900 Kayla Mullis – [email protected] 87 NE Morris 5 2 1885 $390,000 Erik Olson – [email protected] 18 NE Stanton 3 2.1 3473 $399,900 Katie Hughes - [email protected] 126 NE Graham 3 2 2456 $395,000 Paul Van Orden - [email protected] (503) 522-3648 Stuart Malkin - [email protected] 2008 N Williams 3 2.1 3473 $443,825 Pamela Weatherspoon - [email protected] (503) 413-4630 Clint Lundmark – [email protected] (503) 552-8678 Patricia Montgomery – [email protected] (503)758-1263 Land Use and Transportation Committee LUTC Chair Mike Warwick – [email protected] (503) 284-7010 LUTC Vice Chair Allan Rudwick - [email protected] (503) 703-3910 Laurie Simpson – [email protected] (503) 280-1005 Clint Lundmark – [email protected] (503) 552-8678 Paul Van Orden - [email protected] (503) 522-3648 Phil Conti - [email protected] Mike Faden – [email protected] Eliot Monthly Meetings If you live or work in Eliot, you are welcome and encouraged to attend meetings of the Eliot Neighborhood Association, which are held the second Monday of each month at 6:30p.m.