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S eptember 2 5 , 1996 • T he P ortland O bserver
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Housing Authority of Portland
receives award of excellence
W hat started as a dream about
creating a nature trail through a back
yard and into the w oods for children
to learn more about the environm ent
has ended up a national award w in
ner.
T he H ousing A uthority o f P ort
land (H A P) has received word that
its Fairview O aks/W oods Interpre
tive Nature Trail has been selected as
one o f six National A gency A w ards
o f E xcellence in Project Design. The
A w ard was judged by the N ational
A ssociation o f H ousing and R ede
velopm ent O fficials (N A H R O ) at its
sum m er conference held this July in
N ew O rleans.
The award will presented officially
at the N A H R O N ational Conference
to be held in O rlando, Fla. in O cto
ber. Tw o R eynolds High School
students, Joseph C hung and Jon Fritz,
will travel to Florida to join HAP
A sset M anager A n n ie V illarreal
T rullinger in accepting the national
aw ard during a special presentation
at the conference. C hung and Fritz
each donated over 50 hours and a
large part o f their sum m er to help
design and develop the nature trail.
T he Fairview O aks/W oods Inter
pretive N ature Trail is located in a
12-acre w oods/w etland area that is
part o f the 28-acre cam pus o f the
328-unit housing developm ent in
T routdale. The 3,000 foot trail fea-
turesdetailed signage, a viewing blind
and is handicapped accessible.
In N ovem ber 1995, the Fairview
O ak s/W o o d 's natural area and N a
ture Trail were officially com pleted
and becam e part o f the com m unity.
At the tim e, H A P donated a three-
acre portion o f the 12 acre w oods/
w etlands area to the City o f Fairview
for citizen access to the N ature Trail
The residents o f Fairview O aks/
W oods have volunteered for long
term stew ardship o f the w oods, w et
lands and trail, a portion o f which
was donated to the City o f Fairview
as a City Park. Som e o f the m em bers
o f th e
F a ir v ie w
a p a r tm e n t
co m m u n ity 's “ K ids K lub” have been
m ade ho n o rary T rail K eepers in
charge o f keeping the trail clean for
everyone to enjoy. The interpretive
signs, panels and a brochure are d e
signed to give residents o f all ages a
sense o f ow nnership with the hope o f
decreasing vandalism in the com m u
nity.
T his project provided an o p p o rtu
nity to illustrate to the com m unity
how to m eet our reg io n ’s grow ing
affordable housing needs, w hile at
the same tim e preserving the natural
areas that m ake our urban region so
unique.
The 204-unit Fairview O aks was
constructed in 1992 through a co n
tract with H A P and the W inkler D e
velopm ent C orporation. H A P owns
Creating the Nature Trail
The trail took form when the Green
C ity D ata Project, an afterschool
environm ental education program of
Saturday A cadem y, was approached
by developer Jim W inkler to form a
team o f high school students to cre
ate a nature/interpretive trail adja
cent to the H ousing A uthority of
P o rtla n d ’s Fairview O ak s/W o o d ’s
developm ent.
Students from nearby Reynolds
H igh School environm ental science
classes w ere recruited. Technical
an d co n stru c tio n assista n ce w as
brought in from the USDA Forest
Service, M ichael Carlson o f C o m
m unity Stew ards, and an A meriCorps
V olunteer team from the Northwest
Service Academ y.
The R eynolds students designed
the 3,000-foot trail through the woods
and also developed an interpretive
plan, w hich resulted in signs and a
brochure that com m unity m em bers
can use to learn about the w oods and
w etlands in their backyard.
A fter six m onths of public-private
collaboration, fam ilies and wildlife
in the City of Fairview received the
gift o f an outdoor classroom and a
haven for both w ildlife and people.
the com plexes and m anages them
through the contracted services of
Norris, Beggs and Sim pson.
NAHRO Awards Program
The national aw ards, which honor
outstanding acheivem ent in housing
and com m unity developm ent pro
gram s, spotlight those that are m ak
ing a difference in the lives o f the
people served by NAHRO. The com
petition was created to give national
recognition tocreative initiatives and
also provide a valuable clearinghouse
o f program s, services, and ideas that
can be adapted by other agencies to
meet their local needs.
O ne o f 18 selected from a total of
360 entries subm itted from housing
authorities and developm ent agen
cies throughout the United States,
the Fairview O aks/W oods Interpre
tive Nature Trail A w ard o f E xcel
lence is one o f six out o f 50 subm itted
in the category o f Project Design.
The National Association of Hous
ing and R edevelopm ent O fficials is a
63 year-old professional nationw ide
m em bership organization. Its 9,000
m em bers have long participated in
the creation and fine-tuning o f na
tional housing and com m unity d e
velopm ent policies and program s.
F or m ore inform ation, contact
Joleen C olom bo, H A P Public A f
fairs C oordinator a, 273-4521.
Value Range Marketing redefines the listing process
Portland, S eptem ber 16th, 1996 -
Portland M etropolitan residents will
be able to sell their hom es faster with
a new program launched by the P ru
d ential L utz S nyder C o., R E A L
T O R S and the Prudential P erfor
m ance G roup, w hich has 2 1 offices
in the greater P ortland M etropolitan
area.
The program is offered through
T he Prudential Real E state A ffili
ates, Inc. (PR EA ) throughout the U S.
and C anada and has already begin to
redefine the real estate listing pro
cess, benefiting both hom e buyers
and sellers. The new approach, called
V alue Range M arketing (V R M ), re
places the fixed asking price with a
predeterm ined range. Pilot program s
in o th ercities have dem onstrated that
the concept reduces the average time
a hom e is on the m arket up to 75
percent.
“W e have seen the results o f V alue
Range M arketing ”, said Lee Dunn,
G eneral M anager for the O regon
Prudential Lutz S nyder C o., R E A L
T O R S and the P rudential Perfor-
m ance G roup. “W e are confident
that we be able to generate the same
results here in the greater Portland
M etropolitan area.”
VRM , w hich originated in A us
tralia, has been adapted for the North
A m erican residential real estate m ar
ket by PREA. T he PREA netw ork of
com panies is the first to introduce the
concept throughout North A m erica,
beginning in San D iego and other
select m arkets and gradually expand
ing the program to its 1,250 offices
and 33,400 sales agents.
V RM is d esigned to increase ex
posure o f listings and reduce the
am ount o f tim e they are on the m ar
ket. W hen a seller lists their hom e
w ith a fixed asking price, it tends to
be higher than the true m arket value.
Sellers go under the assum ption there
will be a negotiation process that
will bring the price o f the house
dow n, so they inflate the initial list
ing price.
T his hurts the seller because it
lim its the exposure o f their hom e
and im m ediately excludes a num ber
o f qualified buyers from potential
transaction. Buyers autom atically
rule out their hom es that are listed
above their price range, w ithout even
seeing them. For exam ple, if a hom e
is listed at $135,00, buyers w ho are
lo o k in g in the $ 1 2 5 ,0 0 0 m arket
w ould not even consider it. W ith
VRM , this sam e house will be listed .
in the $ 1 2 0 ,0 0 0 -$ 14 0 ,0 0 0 range,
broadening the m arket and the pool
o f potential buyers significantly.
In addition, V RM prevents sellers
from having to d riv e dow n the listing
price o f a home, w hich can be d am
aging to the image o f the property
and discourages potential buyers. A
price reduction is included in the
VRM range as the lowest acceptable
bid, so that it is not necessary to
low er the listing price.
S tatistics from other tests m ar
kets confirm the p ro g ra m 's value.
F orexam ple, V RM listings sell three
to five tim es faster than the m arket
average. In addition, approxim ately
65 percent o f VRM listings are sold
for more than the ow ner had ex-
W H ER E D OES THE TO UR
STA R T? On the day o f the tour, trade
in your tickets at The Northwest Ser
vice Center, 1819 NW Everett, be
tween noon and six, for your guide
booklet with directions for the tour.
PARKING: Free overflow parking
at Legacy Good Samaritan parking
structure, level 3, on NW Marshall
between 21st and 22nd Aves.
Tickets? From Northwest Service
Center, D urst's Thriftway, Zupan’s,
the Historic Preservation League and
Fastixx Outlets. Price $8 seniors; $ 10
adults. Children 6 and under not en
couraged. Lecture tickets are $7.50.
This benefit is dedicated to the
maintenance and restoration fund of
the Northwest Service Center, a non
profit origination owned by the citi
zens o f the northwest neighborhood.
Do you rent to low-income
tenants?
The Portland Housing Center would
like to make your jo b easier W e are
offering a workshop for la n d lo r d s w h o
rent to low-income tenants in M ult
nomah County We hope you’ll at
tend!
Fair Housing:
What are “Protected Classes", how
Fair Housing laws are enforced, and
advertising thatcompl ies with the laws.
Section 8:
Rule changes effective January
1996, how these changes affect land
lords and tenants, and ways to make
the program work for you as a land
lord.
Each workshop attendee will be
provided with a manual outlining the
course, including sample forms and
checklists.
DATE: Saturday October 19,1996or
Saturday November 16, 1996, TIME:
9am to 4pm (Registration begins at
8:30am), WHERE: Central City Con
cern 2 NW 2nd Street (Comer of 2nd and
Burnside in Downtown Portland),COST:
$5 per workshop attendee
If you're interested in the workshop
but unavailable for the dates listed,
please fill out the form and return it to
us. We will send you a notice o f the
workshop.
If you're planning to dress up the
home landscape this fall by adding a
hedge planting to your yard, you’ II be
pleased to know that there are several
varieties of ornamentals that make
good hedges, and they com e in all
sizes.
Here are a few examples.
In the 18-inch high range, true
dw arf common box is recommended,
said Ray McNeilan, home horticul
turist with the Oregon State Univer
sity Extension Service. This plant is
a slow-growing broadleaf evergreen
often used in edging borders around
the landscape. It grows to a width of
three feet and can be clipped to height
of six inches if desired.
Helleri Japanese holl v is suggested
for hedges no more than three feet in
height. This plant has a round and
dense growth habit and is tolerant of
low temperatures.
In the three- to five-feet high cat
egory, McNeilan recommends red
leaf Japanese barberry or bu I lata Japa
nese holly. The barberry is a spiny,
deciduous shrub with brilliant scarlet
and yellow fall color, and red berries.
The holly is an excel lent foliage plant,
Ten Free
Redbud Trees
Ten free American Redbud trees
will be given to each person who
joins the National Arbor Day Foun
dation during Septem ber 1996.
"A m erican Redbuds are out
standing flowering trees which will
add graceful beauty to your home
and neighborhood," John Rosenow,
the Foundation’s president, said.
"Redbuds have clusters o f rosy pink
flowers in spring, and dark green
summer leaves which turn to yel
low in the fall.”
To become a member o f the
Foundation and to receive the free
trees, send a $ 10.(X) contribution to
TEN FREE REDBUDS, National
Arbor Day Foundation, 100 A rbor
Avenue, N ebraskaCity, N E 6 8 4 10,
by September 30, 1996.
according to McNeilan, and tolerant
o f low temperatures.
Berckman oriental arborvitae is
another candidate in the five feet high
range. It is a slow growing conifer
with golden colored foliage. If a large
hedge, five to eight feet high, is
needed, Wintergreen barberry and
sasanqua camel I ia are recommended.
The barberry is a broadleaf evergreen
and makes a dense, spiny hedge. The
camellia is a broadleafevergreen that
is available in many varieties.
For eastern Oregon in the eight
feet range. McNeilan suggests winged
euonymus, a deciduous shrub with
horizontally spreading branches and
crimsonscarlet fall color. Another
hedge planting hardy enough for the
climate east of the Cascades is com
mon snowball viburnum. It is a d e
ciduous plant with red fall color and
red berries.
For hedges over eight feet height,
European privet and pyramidal eastern
arborvitae are good possibilities. The
privet grows 12 to 15 feet high and is an
evergreen shrub. The arborvitae is a
slendcrconifer useful asanarrow hedge.
It grows as high as 20 to 30 feet.
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Northwest neighborhood
Tour of Homes
The Northwest Service C enter’s
benefit fundraiser, the N orthw est
Neighborhood Tour o f Homes, Sun
day, September 29, 1996, from noon
to six p.m. This is a self guided tour o f
histone homes and buildings o f the
northwest neighborhood. Everyone
collects something to fill their lovingly
restored home. This is a rare opportu
nity to get an intimate peek into the
architecture o f the turn o f the century
and into the treasured homes o f yester
year, treasured today.
This tour is proceeded by two lec
tures about the historic structures on
the tour by distinguished Portland ar
chitects, T hom as H acker, A lfred
Staehli and W illiam Hawkins. The
talks, with slides, are on Saturday, 14
September and Saturday, 21 Septem
ber, 7-9 p.m.
pected.
There are also advantages in using
VRM for buyers. A ccording to
Dunn, "V RM opens up a b uyer’s
options. They get to see a greater
num ber o f hom es, so they have a far
better idea o f w h at’s available, what
sim ilar hom es are worth, and how
much they should offer on the home
they eventually choose.”
"PREA saw the incredible suc
cess that agents were having with
VRM in A ustralia,” says Buz M ayer,
vice president. A ffiliate and O rgani
zational D evelopm ent at PREA. “We
knew that this was a unique concept
that would benefit our custom ers and
im prove upon the traditional real
estate transaction.”
The PREA network is one o f the
fastest-growing in the industry with
1995 sales o f $52.4 billion. Founded
in May 1987, PREA awarded its first
Affiliation a year later. It is subsidiary
of The Prudential Insurance Company
of America. The prudential w ebsite is
located at http://www.prudential.com
or http://pru-nw.com .
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Trash.
We'll be talking recycling, too,with the
Public Utilities Review Board (PURB).
Plan to attend a public meeting to review the City of
Portland's residential garbage
and recycling collection franchise system.
Come and tell us what you think!
Wednesday, September 25,1996 at 7:00 pm
State Office Building, Room 140
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