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NEIGhboRhooD NEwS
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Russell to replace Bridger as SWNI
board chairman
As the Post went to press, a proposed
slate of officers would make former
Multnomah Neighborhood Associa-
tion chairman Brian Russell chair of the
Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. board.
He would replace Glenn Bridger of
Hillsdale, who is stepping down after
five years in the post. . SWNI’s other
incumbent officers – first vice president
Ken Love, second vice-president Tye
Steinbach, secretary Susan Egnor, and
treasurer Tom Schaper, are all seek-
ing re-election. These positions were
scheduled to be voted on by the SWNI
board at their May 28 meeting.
As chairman, Bridger ran the month-
ly SWNI board meetings efficiently,
but with a light, avuncular style of
June 2008
EDItoRIal
leadership. His conciliatory manner
helped convince the Southwest Hills
Residential League to overcome years
of independence – and sometime suspi-
cion and hostility – to join the coalition
of neighborhoods
South Waterfront completes
concert series
The South Portland Neighborhood
Association has finalized its schedule
of a second season of free concerts in
Willamette Park. The musicians will
be Michael Manning and the Pump
Station Gang on July 9, the buckles on
July 16, the Touchables on July 23, and
the Free Mountain Ramblers on July 30.
All concerts are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
City reviews latest South
Waterfront tower
The Portland Design Commission
last month gave its second informal
Design Advisory review to a South
Waterfront project by the Prometheus
Corporation on Block 45A, a half-block
parcel bounded by Southwest Bond
Avenue, River Parkway and Abernethy
Street. Here the corporation, which
owns six square blocks at the south end
of the district, plans to build a 31-story,
320-foot tower with small floor plates
of 10,000 square feet. The corporation
will build a seven-story structure im-
mediately to the south, with a public
walkway between them.
Commission members were gener-
ally supportive of the plans, and several
said they would like to see the tower
go even higher, if the code allowed it,
to form the southern boundary of the
district.
Give me a break!
those tax dol-
lars to move a
worn out and
broken down
bridge from
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of the Pearl
District for no
other apparent reason than it seems
like a good idea to Sam Adams. And,
need I mention the tram? Give me a
break!
I encourage all who will be affected
by these proposed halos to get in-
formed and let City Hall and Southwest
Neighbors, Inc. know what you think.
Here are my thoughts on the not-
so-bright idea of the “halo” LIDs [lo-
cal improvement districts] which are
being shoved down our throats right
now: Give me a break!
Why are we being asked to pay a
new tax for local street improvements
while the city, county, and state al-
ready have a steady stream of moneys
we taxpayers provide them to take care
of the basic safety and maintenance
needs of these very same streets?
The stench of denial, ignorance, and
arrogance is palatable way out here
in the far reaches of the potholed and
sidewalk-less Southwest.
City Hall aggressively wastes time
debating about spending millions of
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