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NeWS 8 • The Southwest Portland Post NeWS BRIeFS (Continued from Page 4) stances when matching funds apply. Fritz is eligible for $144,815 in public funds. This calculation is made by subtracting the $5,185 Fritz collected in verified qualifying contributions from the $150,000 spending limit. Fritz collected no seed money contributions during the qualifying period. Fritz’s principal campaign commit- tee is scheduled to receive $39,815 by February 4 and $105,000 by February 27. According to Carlstrom, all Cam- paign Finance Fund certifi ed candidates are subject to limitations on the use of Campaign Finance Fund revenues in City Code Section 2.10.090 as well as all State of Oregon campaign fi nance provisions. City announces courtyard design winners At press time, the city was set to award prizes in a contest for courtyard housing development design at a Janu- ary 29 reception at Northwest Natural Gas. Mayor Tom Potter and commission- ers Randy Leonard and Erik Sten will award four prizes for projects intended to fi t in with historic “streetcar era” communities, and four for more con- temporary areas such as those found in east Portland, according to planner Bill Cunningham. The winners were selected by a jury of nationally-known experts, Cunning- ham said. The commission members were also to bestow six “people’s choice awards” to designs favored by residents who viewed them on a web site. The competition is part of the city’s efforts to fi nd infi ll housing designs that fi t in with established neighborhoods and appeal to the public. Increasingly, planners are looking at courtyard and cluster site projects. Shared use of open space makes it economical for developers to offer large lawns and courtyards that could attract families, Cunningham said. The compe- tition also challenged architects to pro- vide multiple uses for vehicle storage and maneuvering areas, he said. The city is working with the Portland Development Commission to seek op- portunities to build courtyard projects as prototypes, he said. The winning designs and runner-ups can be viewed at www.courtyardhousing.org. SWNI committee “firming up” bike plan The Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. Transportation Committee’s bike sub- committee is “fi rming up” and refi ning February 2008 its proposal for “bike boulevards” in southwest Portland, according to chair Keith Liden. Bike boulevards utilize relatively low- traffi c streets where bikes can safely share the road with cars without the creation of exclusive bike lanes. Their progress so far can be seen – and cri- tiqued – on the SWNI web page, http:// www.swni.org. Neighborhoods near truce on Naito Parkway improvements Supporters and opponents of the long-sought South Portland Circula- tion Study may be nearing a truce. The study, now offi cially called the South Portland Improvement Project, was conceived in the late 1970s. It calls for shrinking Southwest Naito Parkway between Arthur Street and Barbur Boulevard from its current sta- tus as a freeway back to a local two-lane street, with conventional intersections with east-west streets. The study also calls for simplifying access routes to the Ross Island Bridge. This would not only remove some of the barriers that divide the South Port- land neighborhood, but free up land that could be used for development and parks. City Council has endorsed the plan, but lacks the money to implement it, or even do detailed engineering to bring it about. South Portland volunteers Jim Gard- ner and John Perry have championed the project over the course of nearly three decades. Hillsdale Neighborhood Association chair Don Baack has been a consistent critic and opponent of it, charging that downgrading a major route to downtown and the east side would overload other roads, especially Barbur Boulevard. 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