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NEWS May 2009 North Macadam Transportation (Continued from Page 1) velopment Commission said that her agency planned to dedicate 80 percent of North Macadam Urban Renewal funds to transportation projects. When City Commissioner Nick Fish questioned whether the projected funds would in fact be available given the cur- rent economic down turn, Moyle said the projects were “very conservative” and based on “what’s in the ground and what’s in the pipeline.” She conceded that the current budget calls for $10 million dedicated to Milwaukie Light Rail, leaving a $20 million funding gap for this part of the route. Adams said, “We’re working to come up with the last $20 million. We’re not there yet, but one-third of it is a major step forward.” He said that adding ad- ditional tax increment funding is “still on the table,” but that a new Local Im- provement District assessment against local property owners is not. PDOT’s Kathryn Levine presented the project’s new SDC charge schedule, which the City hopes will raise $18 million. It would raise the assessment for new administrative offi ce develop- ments from the present $2.80 per square foot to $5.32, for medical offi ces from $7.38 per square foot to $14.14, and for condominiums from $1,375 per unit to $2,716. Asked about the impact of the reces- sion on development, and therefore on SDC revenues, PDOT’s Randy Young said that the $18 million fi gure was “a twenty-year projection. While we’re in a terrible patch now, we have always recovered in the past, and we expect to recover again. We expect projects to slow down, then rebound. SDCs create a quality infrastructure that attracts development.” Bill Danneman, Lee Buhler and Thomas Naguchi of the South Portland Neighborhood Association, and Don Baack of the Hillsdale Neighborhood Association, all spoke in favor of the program. Danneman called the projects “long overdue.” Buhler said that walk- ing and biking to downtown from the close-in neighborhood would be attrac- tive if the route was easier and safer; he also said that the project had changed due to public input received. President David Schleich led a con- tingent from the National College of Natural Medicine all praising the plan and calling for its speedy implemen- tation. Schleich said that the college planned to expand the campus at 049 S.W. Porter St., relocate a satellite clinic there, and increase enrollment to 1,000 students. However, he said, “Traffi c is a huge issue” that makes access to the campus “diffi cult and dangerous.” Another representative, Marty Loomis, said that “students are risking their safety” to come by foot or transit, that there is “no ADA access (for the disabled) without driving,” and that a foot bridge across Southwest Naito Parkway from the Lair Hill neighbor- hood is “hazardous even for able- The Southwest Portland Post • 3 bodied walkers.” The only negative comment came from Bob Durgin, representing the Zidel Company, industrial property owners in the district. “There is no basis in reality that this will ever be funded,” he declared. According to Durgin, there would need to be $1 million worth of new de- velopment to generate the funding for the light rail improvements alone. “You don’t understand what you’re doing,” he told the City Council. Asked by Fish whether he feared there would be new “asks” from property owners such as Zidel, Durgin replied, “It’s implicit.” Despite this, Fish joined the rest of the City Council in voting for the plan, saying, “I’m satisfi ed I have enough in- formation for an informed vote.” Of the plan he said, “I’ve come to appreciate the Portland way of doing planning. It’s lengthy and inclusive. As a document, it’s superb.” City Commissioner Amanda Fritz said she was reassured by the testi- mony, saying, “These citizen experts, who followed the plan since it started, would tell us if there was cause for alarm. I’m particularly pleased to see the prioritization; we understand we can’t fund all of this at once.” Adams told Pearce, “This was a hard project, but you made it look easy.” Tri-Met Hearing (Continued from Page 1) than in those cities,” said Judy Stewart, who rides the #55 bus line to work at OHSU. 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