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LETTERS:
Multnomah NA
responds to planned
Safeway redevelopment
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Southwest Portland’s Independent Neighborhood Newspaper
Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1
www.swportlandpost.com
Portland, Oregon
Complimentary
November 2011
Sunday Parkway planned for
Terwilliger centennial anniversary
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Next summer the Friends of Ter-
williger Parkway and their friends
are planning to celebrate the road’s
100 th anniversary. One of their pri-
orities is a Sunday Parkways event.
During Sunday Parkways, prac-
ticed for the last four years in
other parts of town, auto traffic is
removed from a roughly circular
route along local streets, allowing
pedestrians and cyclists to tour
neighborhoods in a new way.
Activities, by the Portland Bureau
of Parks or others, are held at local
parks, and designated Community
Market Places allow non-profits,
businesses and community groups
to provide information. Such an
event attracted 31,000 participants
in North Portland earlier this year.
Last month the event’s head orga-
nizer, Rich Cassidy of the Portland
Bureau of Transportation, met with
the Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.
transportation committee to discuss
a possible Southwest Sunday Park-
ways .
Cassidy initially envisioned a
route through Hillsdale, Multnomah
and Hayhurst, but Homestead and
Hillsdale activists pushed hard for
a route along Terwilliger, and for
it to occur during the weekend of
July 20 through 22, when festivities
are planned. Cassidy indicated he
would consider such a plan.
Anton Vetterlein of Homestead
and Friends of Terwilliger said or-
ganizers are planning a variety of
events for the anniversary weekend,
including a road run, a “cake and
speech ceremony,” and a concert at
Duniway Park.
Organizers are also working with
the Bureau of Parks to spruce up the
Parkway for its birthday.
“At six locations Parks will cut
down non-native trees, prune other
Maplewood School students from Mrs. Dottie Alsman's 3rd grade class (1951-
1952) and Mrs Lucille Goyak Roger's 7th grade class (1955-1956) met for lunch
on October 22. The classmates get together with their teachers every year or
two to reminisce about the good old days at Maplewood School. Front row: Dot-
tie Alsman, Lucille Goyak Rogers, Lani Graham Saunders. Back row: Sharon
Miller Nelson, Patti Ransom Waitman-Ingebretsen, Glyn Brice, Jackie Worsech
Haworth. (Photo courtesy of Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen)
trees, and clear away vegetation to
restore the historic views that have
been slowly lost over time,” Vetter-
lein told The Post. At this time they
are seeking sponsors to make the
plans possible.
Girders to be installed for Gibbs
Street Bridge
The five girders that form the su-
perstructure of the proposed Gibbs
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City Council approves federal
detention facility on Macadam
Avenue
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
This building located at 4310 SW Macadam Ave in South Portland will be home
to a new federal jail. (Post photo by Don Snedecor)
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Portland, OR 97206
Reversing a city hearings officer’s
ruling, the Portland City Council
voted unanimously last month to
approve a conditional use permit
for a detention facility at 4310 SW
Macadam Ave.
The ruling ends a nearly year-
long battle and allows Lindquist
Development to expand an existing
building upon the site, and lease
this to Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) for the process-
ing of immigrants either accused
of crime or in this country illegally.
In August, Hearings Officer Greg-
ory Frank had denied the condi-
tional use application based upon
what he found to be inadequate
assurance that the few people ICE
would release from the facility, as
opposed to the vast majority who
would be shipped to Tacoma and
elsewhere, would not constitute a
safety hazard for neighbors.
At a City Council hearing, ICE
officials presented a more detailed
release plan. The City Council with-
held a decision due to a challenge
by the South Portland Neighbor-
hood Association, which argued
that the development team was
presenting new evidence on appeal.
City officials had originally found
that the building, which with addi-
tions will contain 125,000 square
feet of floor space, was allowed by
right, subject only to design review.
The City Council ruled that a
5,200 square foot portion consist-
ing of holding cells was a detention
facility requiring a conditional use
permit and a wider review process.
Commissioner Amanda Fritz
quoted the Portland Zoning Code
to the effect that if a land use re-
quest “complies with the Compre-
hensive Plan, or if it can be made
to comply with it with conditions,
it will be granted.”
Fritz added, “It must be ap-
proved; there’s nothing to base
denial on. We’re not allowed to
consider if this is the best place in
the city for this facility.
“It’s ICE’s job to deport people,
so it doesn’t seem likely ICE would
release anyone who constituted a
risk to the public,” Fritz said.
“These are the kind of folks
who are in my neighborhood and
every other neighborhood in the
city.” However, Fritz said, South
Portland land use chair Jim Da-
vis and transportation chair Bill
Danneman, who led the opposi-
tion, “are land use chairs after my
own heart.”