July 2012
NEWS
Macadam Bay houseboats to use new
driveway next to Freeman Motors
SELLWOOD BRIDGE
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
As to the four-legged transmission
tower, it will be replaced by a new
structure with a single vertical support.
The option’s cost will be about $5
million; the estimates for other options
have ranged from $3 to 6.5 million.
The Sellwood Bridge Citizen Advi-
sory Committee voted to recommend
Option 1C as the Macadam Bay en-
trance last month.
The new Sellwood Bridge develop-
ment team has decided to make the new
entrance to the Macadam Bay house-
boat moorage through the
Freeman Motors driveway,
with some improvements.
As noted in the June edi-
tion of The Post, the west
side approach to the new
Sellwood Bridge will make
the existing Macadam Bay
moorage entrance unsafe to
use, in the eyes of transpor-
tation planners.
The development team
proposed a number of alter-
native approaches that had A drawing of the proposed access for the Macadam
the effect of pitting house- Bay floating home community. (Courtesy of Mike
boat residents against the Pullen, Multnomah County)
Southwest Miles Place and
A meeting of the Stakeholders Advi-
Miles Street community and businesses.
sory Committee, with representatives
Macadam Bay moorage residents
of participating jurisdictions such as
favored routing an entry road to Miles
the City of Portland and Multnomah
Place to take advantage of an existing
County, was postponed until July 16 to
traffic control to Southwest Macadam
provide for an agenda that will include
Avenue.
other aspects of the bridge project.
The Miles Place community protested
Editor’s Note: Concerns persist about
vehemently against this, calling instead
motorists hoping to turn left from the
for an entrance at Freeman Motors.
Macadam Bay moorage drive toward Lake
The moorage residents rebelled
Oswego. Such a left turn is not being
against being asked to drive through
planned. Miles Place residents recommend-
an auto business, a transmission tower
ed (instead) a turn-around at Taylors Ferry
and an uncontrolled intersection to get
Road (near Zupan’s Market) which would
to their homes.
have allowed motorists headed northbound
The newest plan, called Option 1C,
to get back on Macadam Avenue headed
will utilize Freeman’s existing drive-
southbound without crossing traffic. The
way, but with a new access roads that
turn-around also is not in the current plans.
will not go through the business.
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The Southwest Portland Post • 3
Multnomah business advocate makes
budget pitch to City Council
Randy Bonella, Multnomah Village
business advocate and former chair
of the Multnomah Neighborhood As-
sociation, testified at the Portland City
Council’s final budget session to extol
the success of the Multnomah Village
Business Association’s Golden Ticket
program and plead for funding of pro-
grams that promote business health.
For the past two years Bonella has
been executive director of Multnomah
Village Bloc’s Initiative, a main street-
type business advocacy program.
Bonella explained the Golden Ticket
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program, whereby shoppers get dis-
counts from some merchants by making
purchases from other merchants. This
season, he said, “With average pur-
chases of greater than $50 per ticket, we
generated nearly $1.2 million in gross
revenues.”
Then he said, “Amazing, yes. But
consider the environment: 18 months of
continuous construction on Multnomah
Boulevard and a full closure of this
major commuter arterial just as the
holiday season was ramping up, while
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