2 • The Southwest Portland Post
EDITORIAL
August 2011
Community invited to contribute supplies, donations during Multnomah Days
The Multnomah
Vi l l a g e B l o c ’ s
Initiative and
Neighborhood
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Multnomah Days
Festival on Saturday, August 20, for a
great celebration of our community.
We are asking for donations of non-
food items that are in short supply for
those in need. Additionally, we are
asking you to contribute a suggested
$2 donation that will be applied to in-
stalling lighting in Multnomah Village
during the “Green Street” redevelop-
ment of Capitol Highway between
Southwest 35th and 36th avenues.
Just think of the impact that we can
Maplewood slated to receive $200,000 in ped/
bike improvements
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
More than 90 folks attended a neigh-
borhood meeting at the West Hills
Friends Church on July 11 to find out
about plans for a once-in-a-decade
traffic-calming project in Maplewood.
Mark Lear and Greg Raisman of the
Portland Bureau of Transportation led
the meeting.
The city has set aside $200,000 to deal
with a unique neighborhood with no
sidewalks. For starters, the state legis-
lature has agreed to allow individual
cities to create new 20 mph zones to
increase safety.
As part of the city’s new neighbor-
hood greenway program (formerly bike
boulevards), they’re planning to turn a
ditch a along the side of busy Southwest
Maplewood Road, 52nd Avenue, and
Vermont Street into a walkable/ bikeable
gravel trail with a culvert underneath.
The city is working with the Safe
Routes To School folks, along with the
Bureau of Environmental Services.
The City is trying to create a safe net-
work for getting people in Maplewood
to places like West Hills Montessori
School, Maplewood School, St John
Fisher School, Garden Home Recreation
Center, the Southwest Community
Center in Gabriel Park and Multnomah
Village.
There are some steep slopes involved
that may make traffic calming trickier.
But traffic speeds in Maplewood are
consistently 5-10 mph higher than the
city wants. And the new trails should
make walking and biking more attrac-
tive options.
A number of new speed bumps are
planned, as are new flashing beacons at
crosswalks. There is the possibility of a
new rubber curb along Vermont. Also,
plans are in the works for an expanded
trail to April Hill Park.
What’s next? A follow-up meeting
will be held on Wednesday, August 17,
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Multnomah
Center. Information about proposed
improvements is available at www.port-
landonline.com/transportation. Click
on the link to Maplewood. If you’d like
to comment on proposed plans contact
Mark Lear via e-mail, mark.lear@port-
landoregon.gov.
make to our community if each per-
son or family could donate a box of
diapers, paper towels, toiletries and
or canned/boxed food goods.
This will help those at most risk in
our community.
Also think of how much better
Multnomah Village would be with
more and improved lighting. We have
a unique opportunity to build out our
lighting infrastructure at a very low
cost with the pending Green Street
redevelopment.
We won’t have to tear up newly
built roads or sidewalks as would be
done during the sidewalk and street
construction.
Donation collection points will be set
up at the major entrances to the street
fair prior to the parade start and we
will also have a donation location near
the center of the fair after the parade
has ended.
Multnomah Village gets between
5000 and 8000 visitors during the
Multnomah Days Festival. It is one of
the longest-running street fairs in Port-
land and is hosted by the Multnomah
Village Business Association.
Randy M. Bonella
Executive Director
Multnomah Village Bloc’s Initiative
rmbonella@mvblocs.org
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