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Relationship between city
and school district was ‘most
cooperative’
Please retract the second paragraph
of the Perlman article [“Collins View
neighbors argue that recent school clo-
sures violate City-Schools Policy,” by
Lee Perlman, September 2008]. It simply
is not the truth.
According to Perlman, This little-
known document was drafted in 1979 by
former Portland planning director Lloyd
Keefe. It was generally an attempt to create
more cooperation between city government
and the Portland School District, indepen-
dent jurisdictions who have not always had
the most cooperative relationships.
The City Planning Commission and
staff had the finest and most coop-
erative working relationship with the
School Board and Staff and the Parks
Bureau in planning for, acquisition, and
building new schools in [the] 1950’s and
1960’s as reported in Land for Schools.
Southwest Portland profited im-
mensely from that effort. Land was
purchased for less than $3,000 per acre
for both school sites and combined
school-park sites. More recently when
School District No. 1 became financially
strapped, the Park Bureau purchased
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the unbuilt school sites for many, many
times the original per acre price.
Our last of the three reports for the
School District was April 1966, A Plan
to Alleviate School Overcrowding to 1970.
Primarily this was a shifting of atten-
dance boundaries to gain safe routes
for children walking to schools and to
reduce overcrowding by utilization of
unused space in adjacent schools.
At that time, a new superintendent
convinced the School Board to drop
the K-8 plan and convert to the Middle
School system. Had that part of the
Markham attendance area north of Bar-
bur Blvd. and I-5 Freeway been trans-
ferred to [Smith Elementary School],
Smith would still be open. Such should
still be done.
I retired from the Planning Bureau
in November 1976, but was retained to
Sept. 1977 to write and secure enact-
ment of the Downtown Sign Regulation
as per the Downtown Plan.
There were no differences between
the City and School District then or later
that I know of.
Also, I think the last part of the
Perlman article should be clarified for
your readers. If it involves the required
Conditional Use procedure for Uses in
closed schools other than the teaching
of children, it should be known that
such procedure was included in Port-
land’s first zoning code voted by the
people in 1924.
It was upheld by the State Supreme
Court which ruled that the City could
not deny the building of the All Saints
Church and School in Laurelhurst as the
nearby residents requested. Such would
violate Freedom of Religion—but the
Court said the City could require “con-
ditions.”
Cemeteries, golf courses, greenhous-
es, nursing homes, libraries, museums
and several other non-residential uses
are permitted Conditional Uses in
Single Family Residential Zones.
Lloyd T. Keefe, F.A.I.C.P.
Southwest Portland
Thanks to the person who
found my purse
My sincere thanks, albeit belatedly,
to the wonderful person who found
my purse in Multnomah Village over a
year ago. At the time I was visiting my
daughter, and was frantic when I lost
my purse with cash, credit cards and ID.
Within an hour of contacting the
Portland Police, they called to say
someone had not only found my purse
and turned it in to them. Everything
was intact, and a vacation horror story
was averted. Thanks goodness there
are honest and caring people in your
community!
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Use of free-range chicken eggs
step in right direction
As a Portland resident and someone
who cares about animals, I’m tremen-
dously heartened by local businesses
like Marco’s Café and Espresso Bar that
refuse to use eggs from caged hens.
Most egg-laying hens in this country
are crammed into cages so small they
can’t even spread their wings. They
can’t walk, let alone dust bathe, perch,
or scratch. Each caged hen has less
space than a single sheet of paper to
spend her entire life.
The egg industry should take the lead
of the growing number of restaurants
like Marco’s—and Cup and Saucer
Café, JoPa and Great Harvest Bread
Company—that are moving in the right
direction by switching to cage-free eggs.
Such a move will end [or] reduce an
enormous amount of animal suffering
while improving food safety at the same
time. For more information, visit www.
humanesociety.org.
Kelly Peterson, Multnomah Village
Editor’s Note: Kelly Peterson is Oregon
policy advisor to The Humane Society of
the United States.
Lynne Marie Sullivan
Sharon, Ontario
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