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EDITORIAL
The Southwest Portland Post
4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509
Portland, OR 97206
Fax: (866) 727-5336
email: editor@multnomahpost.com
Why aren’t there any ADA
accessible parking spots in
Multnomah Village?
We were told the sidewalks in
Multnomah were changed to meet
[Americans with Disabilities Act]
requirements. Why then is there
only one handicapped parking spot
in the Village?
Perhaps someone can investigate.
How can this be ADA compliant?
the reader is referencing. In addi-
tion, PBOT is planning to install an
extra parking space west of the new
ADA parking space and it will be
van-accessible.
These additions were made after
extensive public and business out-
reach that was part of the project.
PBOT welcomes additional re-
quests and feedback from the pub-
lic.
If your reader wishes additional
ADA parking or any modification
to the existing one, the reader is
welcome to contact Julie Roe in the
Transportation Bureau’s Disabled
Parking Program at disabledpark-
ing@portlandoregon.gov or 503-
823-5195 ext. 3.
Nancy Carlen
Southwest Idaho Terrace
May 2014
Vote ‘no’ on Measure 26-156
This ballot measure sets up a new
government bureaucracy to manage
water and sewer utilities in Port-
land. There is no guarantee that this
new bureaucracy will reduce rates.
It may actually harm water qual-
ity by eliminating many of the wa-
tershed improvement projects that
benefit our neighborhoods, such as
planting native plants in place of
invasive blackberries and ivy, and
constructing storm water facilities
that use natural systems to filter
rainwater before it drains into our
local creeks.
Many suggestions have been
made by the City Club and others
to improve operations in the exist-
ing bureaus.
Measure 26-156 is poorly struc-
tured and some provisions make
no sense, creating more problems
than it would solve. I urge you to
vote “no” on Ballot Measure 26-156
on May 20.
Marianne Fitzgerald
Ashcreek
Editor’s Note: Thank you for your
letter, Nancy. I relayed your questions
to Diane Dulken, media relations
manager with the Portland Bureau of
Transportation. Here was her response:
Before the project, there was one
van-accessible ADA parking space
located on the southwest corner of
the block that had been installed in
1999 at the request of the adjacent
property owner.
As part of the Multnomah Green
Street Project, the city replaced that
ADA parking space with the one
City should require builders
to install sidewalks in front
of new homes
This handicapped parking spot is located
on the north side of Southwest Capitol
Highway at 35th Avenue.
(Post photo by Erik Vidstrand)
No new taxes to create sidewalks.
Yes to requiring builders and con-
tractors to put in sidewalks in front
of new homes. It is time for the city
of Portland to stop giving out waiv-
ers that allow the builder to skip the
sidewalk installation.
The logic until now has been to
not require new home sidewalks
because no sidewalks are on that
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street, block etc. Every section of
sidewalk already in place decreases
the amount of area needed for side-
walks.
If every builder/contractor had
put in sidewalks for houses built in
the past 50 years, we would have
less to complain about.
No new taxes! Be prudent with the
funds that I already sent. Portland
and Multnomah County residents
are already over-taxed.
Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen
Multnomah Village
Bioswale in
Multnomah Village
isn’t draining properly
Editor’s Note: Walking in the village
in early April, Post reporter Erik Vid-
strand noticed that the bioswale (catch
basin) on Southwest Capitol Highway
at 36 th Avenue was not draining.
Vidstrand contacted the Linc Mann,
spokesman for the Portland Bureau of
Environmental Services, for comment.
Here is his response:
It was draining for a while after
we removed the plants and topsoil.
We think some of the restaurants in
the area might be dumping wash-
water in the gutter that drains to the
green street.
Sometimes washwater from food
service establishments contains fats,
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