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Developer Tim O’Brien asks
Multnomah neighbors to be
friendlier
Regarding, “New 39-unit building
planned for corner of 32nd Avenue and
Capitol Highway,” by Erik Vidstrand,
The Post, January 2018.
At the Dec. 12 meeting of the
Multnomah Neighborhood
Association, SERA Architects and
developer Tim O’Brien presented
a plan for a proposed 39-unit
apartment building on the site of
the old gas station opposite the
Multnomah Arts Center on Capitol
Highway.
I was somewhat amazed by the
comments made by Mr. O’Brien as
reported in your news article. Mr.
O’Brien was reported as saying that
neighbors to this project “could be
friendlier to developers”.
He goes on to say, “Try to weigh
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in on projects with a positive
attitude and not try to stop me or
appeal until the cows come home.”
I think it is incredibly naive of
Mr. O’Brien to ask that people in
opposition to his latest development
be “friendlier”.
I am in total agreement with the
abutters/neighbors to the proposed
building who mention loss of
sunlight and increase in cars along
with the scale of the building
being out of character with the
neighborhood.
I urge Mr. O’Brien to mentally
imagine himself one of the abutters.
What will they lose if and when
this project is allowed to proceed?
Sunshine, views and privacy.
These neighbors will live in the
shadows and have the creepy
feeling that their privacy is not
secure.
One only has to tour North
Portland’s Mississippi Avenue to
get a sense of what the outcomes
can be.
A single-family bungalow right
next to a four-story apartment
building set back only three feet
from the property line.
Most home owners have worked
hard to afford home ownership
which provides security and a
sense of stability and privacy.
Mr. O’Brien’s project threatens
unwanted change in an existing
neighborhood. Why should he
be surprised by neighborhood
pushback?
Be nice, Mr. O’Brien, and find
another location to build your
development.
Sim Hyde
Multnomah Village
March 2018
Dear EarthTalk: One source of
water waste is running it to change
from cold to hot. Any thoughts on
how to deal with this?
– Joanne Leussing
Running the water to wait for it
to get hot is a huge waste of water.
According to the Natural Resources
Defense Council, a leading non-profit
green group, upwards of 10 percent
of all the hot water drawn for show-
ering in a typical single-family home
is wasted waiting for hot water to
arrive.
“With Americans taking over 200
million showers a day, that’s a lot of
water and energy literally down the
drain, of no benefit to anyone,” said
Ed Osann, the NRDC senior policy
analyst and water efficiency project
director.
“Using Environmental Protection
Agency estimates of shower water
use, that’s about 280 million gallons
of hot water wasted each day—wa-
ter that has been heated by a water
heater, but then allowed to cool as
it sits in long pipe runs that are not
insulated.”
The energy used to heat this wasted
hot shower water generates about
the same amount of greenhouse gas
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