December 2008
South Portland neighborhood
association wins Spirit of
Portland Award
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
South Portland has received the cov-
eted Spirit of Portland Neighborhood
of the Year Award, the first southwest
neighborhood to be so honored in years.
The Spirit of Portland Awards, selected
by a jury of community leaders from
nominations submitted by the public
at large, honor individuals or groups
that have contributed to the livability
of the city.
Formerly Corbett-Terwilliger-Lair
Hill, the South Portland Neighborhood
Association was the main producer,
together with the Portland Bureau of
Parks, of a series of free summer con-
certs in Willamette Park, making them
the first southwest neighborhood group
to partner with parks on this popular
program. This year there were five
such concerts drawing more than 400
people each.
South Portland also contended with
the creation of the South Waterfront
area, a high-density residential enclave
in what had been an industrial area, by
both welcoming the newcomers – the
group moved their meeting place to the
Umpqua Bank in the bottom of the John
Ross Building – while trying to protect
the rights of the older community to
the west.
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The neighborhood association
worked with the City of Portland
to install traffic calming devices on
Southwest Corbett Avenue. Additional
efforts included planning the proposed
pedestrian bridge beneath the aerial
tram, the new Willamette Greenway
and neighborhood parks.
South Portland has also been involved
in planning the extension through the
district of the Portland Streetcar, MAX
light rail line to Milwaukie , a new
transit bridge, and replacement of the
Sellwood Bridge.
South Portland leaders were instru-
mental in the creation of a new neigh-
borhood business association. Finally,
the group was an active participant in
the Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.
coalition, where South Portland chair
Ken Love served as coalition vice-chair.
“This is a real honor,” Love told The
Post.
“Thanks are due to our volunteer
board who put in countless hours of
work, and our partners such as Or-
egon Health and Sciences University,
Umpqua Bank, the Portland French
School and Johns Landing Automo-
tive.”
Members of the Portland City Council
will present the awards to South Port-
land and other winners at a ceremony
on Thursday, December 11 beginning
at 2 p.m. in Council Chambers at City
Southwest neighborhood
coalition receives grant
applications
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By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Corbett neighborhood to get
new water main
The Portland Water Bureau will be
installing a new 36-inch water main in
the Corbett area next year. The work
will start at Southwest Kelly Avenue
and Lane Street and proceed northward
along Kelly to Curry Street, along Curry
to First Avenue, along First to Porter
Street, she said. The bureau hopes to
lay 40 feet of pipe a day, and advance
at the rate of one block every five days.
The work should begin in late spring.
Sellwood Bridge task force
favors new bridge
The Sellwood Bridge Task Force
discussed options for replacement of
the 1926 structure last month, and com-
ments leaned heavily toward creation
of a new bridge. There was virtually
no support for the No Build option ad-
vanced by staff last month that would
have simply addressed the worst of the
existing structure’s deficiencies and left
it fit for use for the next 20 years.
The public will have a chance to
weigh in on the issue this month. The
task force will be accepting public tes-
timony on the issue from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
December 10 at the Oregon Museum of
Science and Industry, 1945 S.E. Water
Ave. People can also take an online
survey at www.sellwoodbridge.org
through December 22.
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Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.
(SWNI) received 21 applications for the
latest round of Neighborhood Small
Grants. For the last two years the City of
Portland has awarded a total of a year
$200,000 to community groups through
the Office of Neighborhood Involve-
ment and the neighborhood offices
such as SWNI for projects that “increase
the capacity” of such groups, help in-
crease outreach to “under-represented
communities,” and foster partnerships
between neighborhood associations
and other community groups.
Bicycle master plan
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median to be eliminated in favor of
bike lanes.
In two places – Southwest Fifth
Avenue leading to Barbur, and on
Southwest 19 th Avenue between Spring
Garden and Troy streets – the report
calls for eliminating a travel lane to
allow for bike lanes. The report calls
for a number of improvements for the
I-405 overpasses that link southwest to
downtown, especially devices to allow
bikes to merge through traffic safely.
For Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard,
already one of the city’s most popular
recreational and commuter bike routes,
the report calls for a variety of changes,
including the widening of “substan-
dard” bike lanes.
Although discussions of the issues go
back to 2006, Liden dates the start of the
effort to spring 2007. As part of the pro-
cess the group, a subcommittee of the
Southwest Trails Committee, held two
public open houses, and a community
bike ride, to preview their ideas and
gather public reaction.
In his purpose statement, Liden says
he hopes the plan will “encourage
the city to bring the same passion for
bicycling, which has helped create a
first-class system in other areas of the
city, to southwest Portland.”
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