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November 2012 NEWS The Southwest Portland Post • 3 French school seeks to expand; Age-friendly designation proceeds HILLSDALE NOTEBOOK By Jillian Daley The Southwest Portland Post Hillsdale Neighborhood Associa- tion residents learned at a meeting last month that L’Etoile French Immersion School aims to move into the Fulton Park Community Center this year. The French school, which presented its plans at the meeting, has applied for a conditional use permit to move some of its students into the community cen- ter at 68 S.W. Miles St. L’Etoile School, which has 58 stu- dents, wants to move its 12 first- and second-graders to Fulton Park. This will open up space for the kin- dergarteners and preschoolers at the school’s current home at 5839 SW Hood Ave., said school operations director, Seema Kathuria in an interview with The Post in late October. Kathuria plans to add one higher grade per year until the school reaches the fifth grade. The French school needs a conditional use permit because the community cen- ter is in a zone usually allowing ages 5 and younger, not first to fifth graders. The permit creates an exception, Ka- thuria said. Kathuria said that during and after a Nov. 5 public hearing, people will have an opportunity to comment on whether they approve of the school. No one has taken issue so far, and she expects to be Fulton Park Community Center. (Cour- tesy of Portland Parks and Recreation) able to move in this December. She loves the space and sees a future there. The Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation previously held some of its own programs at the Fulton Park Community Center before they were discontinued because of budget cuts, although the bureau still rents out space at the center affording L’Etiole School a place to grow. Hillsdale Walkability Audit and age-friendly certification Also at the Hillsdale Neighborhood Association meeting, Alan DeLaTorre, a Portland State University instructor who is the project manager for Port- land’s Age-Friendly Cities Project, dis- cussed the Hillsdale Walkability Audit. The audit will help pinpoint what needs to be done to make Hillsdale the first Portland neighborhood designated as age-friendly. An age-friendly certification involves improvements such as: making doors easier to open; providing places to rest; improving lighting to help prevent crime; and making places easier to navi- gate for those with vision trouble. The designation has other benefits. “I think (an age-friendly certification) would be some good marketing for Hill- sdale,” said neighborhood association chairman Mikal Apenes in late October. The project is part of a larger city ef- fort to make Portland more age-friendly that’s been going on for years. Hillsdale was chosen to be a part of that effort be- cause of its strong transit system, major artery in the form of Southwest Capitol Highway and thriving residential and business communities, DeLaTorre ex- plained in a late October interview. One milestone of the local project came at a May 2 Hillsdale Neighbor- hood Association meeting when Hill- sdale Main Street executive director Megan Braunsten and Elders in Action volunteer Will Fuller announced a part- PoSt ClaSSifiedS adS Advertise in the Post Classifieds $2 per word Phone: 503-244-6933 nership between their groups to further the age-friendly certification effort for the neighborhood. Neighborhoods compete for small grants Hillsdale neighbors discussed the 2012-2013 Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.’s Small Grants Program. Grant awards are $200-$2,000 apiece, and a grand total of $10,020 is available to the 16 neighborhoods this year. There was $20,000 available last year, Apenes said. 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