January 2011
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
City Council approves South
Waterfront projects
The Portland City Council ap-
proved two new major projects
for the South Waterfront neighbor-
hood last month.
One was a long-sought afford-
able housing project, to be lo-
cated on Block 49 of the district,
bounded by Southwest Lowell and
Bancroft streets and Moody and
Bond avenues.
The six-story building will have
209 units. Of these, 42 will be
reserved for veterans earning 30
percent or less of median family
income. The rest will be geared to
people earning 60 percent of MFI.
The City Council approved a
grant of $30 million toward the
$49.8 million, of which $7 million
has already been committed in the
purchase of the land.
The project will be built and
managed by REACH Community
Development, the city’s largest
non-profit housing agency based
in southeast Portland.
The veterans housing was origi-
nally supposed to be part of a
project by Homer Williams and
Dyke Dame, two of the major
South Waterfront developers, but
they eventually withdrew from
the project.
The City Council also approved
$27 million in urban renewal funds
for the reconstruction of Moody
Avenue between Southwest Gibbs
Street and River Parkway, a dis-
tance of 0.6 miles.
This will include an increase in
the grade of the street, necessary
for it to fit with the new light rail
station at Southwest Porter Street,
project manager Chris Armes told
The Post.
Citywide Tree Project reaches
City Council
The Portland City Council will
hold a public hearing on the City-
wide Tree Project beginning at 6
p.m. February 2 at City Hall.
The Project will set new regula-
tions for the planting, cutting and
pruning of trees on all public and
private property in Portland.
It will hopefully make such
regulations more consistent and
understandable, with better en-
forcement, than is now the case.
For more information visit www.
portlandonline.com/bps/treepro-
ject.
Southwest sewer work
complete but new water main
is next
Good news for Multnomah
and Garden Home residents: The
sewer work that bedeviled these
communities is complete. New
sewers on Southwest Multnomah
Boulevard and near the Fanno
NEWS
Creek Trail were tested and found
to be satisfactory, according to
Bureau of Environmental Services
spokesperson Stephen Sykes.
Now for the bad news – BES will
need to relocate a water main on a
section of Multnomah Boulevard,
between Southwest 31st and 45th
avenues. Work should begin in
late December or early January
and occur mainly between 7 a.m.
and 4 p.m., Sykes said.
Southwest coalition awards
neighborhood grants
Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.
announced last month the Neigh-
borhood Grant winners for this
year, to whom they allocated a
total of $10,647. The winners were
(in alphabetical order):
• Ash Creek Neighborhood As-
sociation - $1,100 for outreach for
the Dickinson Park Community
Garden.
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• Southwest Crime Prevention
Committee: $1,200 for public safety
outreach activities, including the
“Whoopin’ It Up” youth basketball
program.
• Tryon Creek Watershed Coun-
cil: $1,200 for an event, including
hands-on restoration activities.
The annual grant program is
funded by the City General Fund
through the Portland Office of
Neighborhood Involvement, and
distributed by Southwest Neigh-
borhoods, Inc. (SWNI) and the
city’s six other district neighbor-
hood offices.
Grants are awarded for special
projects by community groups that
“increase their capacity,” involve
“under-represented communities,”
and encourage partnerships.
We ran out of room
for our calendar!
Read “Community Life”
online beginning
January 1st.
Just click on our news
website link at
www.swportlandpost.com
Happy New Year from
all of us at The Post!
• Crestwood Neighborhood As-
sociation: $1,100 for a movie night
at Dickinson Park.
• Hayhurst Neighborhood Asso-
ciation and Cedar Sinai Park: $565
for Southwest Boundary Road traf-
fic calming.
• Homestead Neighborhood As-
sociation: $734 for outreach.
• Maplewood Neighborhood
Association - $1,000 for a summer
social.
• Marshall Park Neighborhood
Association - $112 for outreach ef-
forts such as a National Night Out
celebration and tree stewardship.
• Multnomah Neighborhood As-
sociation: $450 for Multnomah Vil-
lage Park improvements and the
Spring Garden Park playground.
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• South Portland Neighborhood
Association: $998 for activities to
build neighborhood identity, in-
cluding Willamette Park summer
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