2 • The Southwest Portland Post
EDITORIAL
August 2012
Southwest Corridor planners seek
input on 99W between Portland
and Sherwood
COMMENTARY
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
The Southwest Corridor team is
seeking your input on what the future
of this part of the Metro area should
be, and what kind of transportation
should serve it. This last includes a
study of a potential new light rail line.
The multi-jurisdictional study is
being led by Metro, and includes both
Highway 99W (Barbur Boulevard)
and the land around it out as far as
Sherwood.
It is working in cooperation with
local efforts such as Portland’s Barbur
Concept Plan, which is considering
land uses, but the Corridor study is
concerned primarily with transporta-
tion issues.
The project anticipates major
growth in several designated “con-
cept centers” between now and
2035, including Hillsdale and West
Portland Park.
Currently, planners found, there
is a lack of “a balance of housing
choices” for students, families and
the elderly.
“Challenges” include limited ac-
cessibility, lack of transportation op-
tions (including safe places to walk),
traffic congestion, limited options for
roadway expansion, air pollution and
“environmental considerations.”
To gain public input, staff has held
presentations at local community
groups, held facilitated discussions,
held two open houses, and had a
mail and e-mail comment period for
a month last year.
In “dot” exercises at public events,
asked what areas of concern were
most important in terms of objectives,
the highest recorded level of concern
was for parks, trails and natural ar-
eas, followed by safety and security
and water quality.
Other concerns, in descending
order of importance, were jobs and
economic development, commercial
development, housing choices and
public health.
Metro staff found that three quarters
of the responses they received sup-
ported improved public transit, and
two-thirds called for “high-capacity”
transit. This is a key, since part of
staff’s assignment is whether to move
forward on more detailed study of
mass transit options.
These options, Metro planners say,
include light rail, bus rapid transit,
improved bus service, commuter
rail and rapid streetcar, not neces-
sarily on Barbur Boulevard. There
was virtually unanimous support for
improved pedestrian facilities along
the corridor.
Metro staff said they were planning
to do additional outreach at public
events this month, including Sunday
Parkways. For more information,
visit www.oregonmetro.gov/south-
westcorridor.
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my 30 years of practice.
I have looked long and hard for
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Multnomah Village dentist
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after 30 years
To my valued patients:
It has been an honor and a privi-
lege to serve you; we have laughed
and cried together through the
years. It is with a mix of joy and dif-
ficulty that I inform you today about
my retirement from the practice of
dentistry. I have always wanted to
end my career when I am at the top
of my game and when I am still
healthy enough to enjoy my retire-
ment.
I believe that time is now. I look
forward to spending time with
family and friends and enjoying
the many interests I have had to
postpone.
This, however, requires that I give
up what I have valued the most
about my profession—the many
individual relationships that I have
been privileged to be part of during
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immediately.
After interviewing other potential
dentists, I happily met Dr. Jensen,
who is friendly and funny and yet
able to be serious about the practice
of dentistry.
I believe she holds the high stan-
dards of ethics, honesty and excel-
lence that I have always strived for.
I urge all of you to begin your new
patient-dentist relationships with
Dr. Jensen, as I am confident she
will continue to provide the high-
est standard of dental care possible.
To those of you who have been in
recently, I want you to know that I
have been unable to share my excit-
ing news with you due to the nature
of the sale of a dental practice. It
is my pleasure to announce the
transfer of my practice to Dr. Lisa
K. Jensen.
Fondly,
John P. Shaw, DMD
Death Notice
Sherman Hess, longtime Multnomah
and Hillsdale pharmacist, died in July
at the age of 83. A funeral service will
be held on Saturday, August 18, 2012 at
Riverview Cemetery.