2 • The Southwest Portland Post
EDITORIAL
July 2012
Reader’s questions help shed light on Walgreens development
By Jillian Daley
The Southwest Portland Post
Many area residents have been
keeping an eye on the Walgreens
development at Southwest Capitol
Highway and Barbur Boulevard –
including Michael Ossar.
Ossar isn’t sure the layout is ap-
propriate, and he shared his con-
cerns in a letter to The Post, which
was published in the June 2012 edi-
tion. A city planner and Walgreens
spokesman addressed issues Ossar
raised about the future retail store
and pharmacy.
“The footprint of the new Wal-
greens and its parking lot seems to
take up almost the entire lot, coming
within about a foot or so of the side-
walks,” Ossar said. “I’m wondering
whether this leaves any room at all
for landscaping.”
Ossar asked what landscaping is
required for such a structure?
At least 15 percent of the
36,000-square foot lot located at
9855 SW Capitol Hwy must be set
aside for landscaping, said Margue-
rite Feuersanger, a planner with the
Portland Bureau of Planning and
Sustainability. The building plans
complied with city regulations,
Feuersanger said.
The 17,610 square-foot building’s
walls must be close to the street
along Taylors Ferry Road and
Capitol Highway, which are transit
streets, Feuersanger said.
Buildings developed along transit
streets are set near the road to make
entrances convenient for people get-
ting off of the bus.
Ossar said the city should look to
the future when reviewing permits,
paying attention to the Barbur Con-
cept Plan, a city project intended to
create a long-term vision to improve
Barbur Boulevard, from central
Portland to Tigard.
“It seems paradoxical that at
a time when we have a Barbur
Concept Plan looking into what to
do about one of the ugliest streets
in the city we should be allowing
new outrages that we will have to
live with for a long time,” Ossar
said. “Or am I unaware of planned
improvements?”
Robert Elfinger, a Walgreens
spokesman said the building will
have lots of attractive foliage.
“The plan calls for street trees,
trees along the perimeter wall,
smaller accent trees, shrubs, and
ground cover,” Elfinger said. “Ma-
ples, cypress, crabapple, rhododen-
dron, and blue fescue are among the
plants planned.”
City officials say the new Walgreens building plans comply with setback and
landscaping regulations. (Post photo by Jillian Daley)
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Reporters/Writers: Jillian Daley, Stephanie
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Cutting down 800 trees damaged
the forest canopy
I am enclosing this photo of myself
standing near a tree cut down near the
west end of the Sellwood Bridge.
Eight hundred trees, including old
growth trees like this one, were killed by
Multnomah County crews working at
night during the month of April (2012).
The photo shows a fresh Douglas
fir stump. As it grew, it would’ve sup-
ported many wildlife species.
The cutting [of the 800 trees] opened
the forest canopy, which will allow
more drying and erosion stress on the
remaining trees.
Leaving the trees to grow bigger
would’ve resulted in more, bigger,
healthier trees (due to better survival
success)-- meeting our human needs
for a healthy forest.
Please-- save our forests for all of us!
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