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No Federal Charges in Campbell Case
Review finds
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The Justice Department Tues­
day announced that there was in­
sufficient evidence to pursue fed­
eral criminal civil rights charges
against Portland Police Bureau of­
ficers involved in the fatal shooting
of Aaron Campbell.
Officials from the department’s
Civil Rights Division, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the District of
Oregon and the FBI met with
Campbell’s family and their repre-
Bureau for patterns and practices of
federal civil rights violations related
to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Campbell was killed on Jan. 29,
2010, during a standoff with police
at the Sandy Terrace Apartments in
northeast Portland. Police had been
told Campbell was armed and sui­
cidal. But he had no gun when of­
Aaron Campbell
ficer Ryan Lewton began firing bean­
sentatives to inform them of this bag rounds at him. When Campbell
decision.
turned and started to run back in the
The family released a statement apartment. Officer Ronald Frashour
saying that it accepts the decision, shot him in the back with an A R 15
but looks forward to another deci­ rifle.
sion being made in the near future as
Under the applicable federal
to whether the federal government
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will investigate the Portland Police
Keeping Theater in View
Housing plans
raise issues in
Hollywood
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L aw 8, J ustice
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T he P ortland O bserver
A local housing developer wants
to build a five-story, 51 unit apart­
ment on a vacant lot at Northeast
Sandy Boulevard at 41st Avenue,
immediately west of the historic
Hollywood Theatre.
Construction by Creston Homes
would bring high density housing
to a place where city policy says it
should go, however some neigh­
photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
borhood critics have concerns.
A housing developer who wants to build a five story apartment
The lot was last occupied by the next door to the Hollywood Theater is making adjustments to his
Hollywood Arcade, a two-story building plans to ease concerns that the building would over­
commercial building that was de­ shadow the historic theater.
stroyed by fire in 1998. At one point the corner back further to increase drive,’’ Creston Homes representa-
owner Howard Abrams wanted to visibility and form a small public tive Dave Mullins said at a pre-
build a four-story apartment on the P,aza-
application meeting with city offi-
site, but concerns about design
While underground parking was cials last month. Another motive
plans, followed by the economic considered in Abrams’first go round, may be the expense involved; un­
downturn sank the proposal.
it was rejected when experts warned derground parking costs upwards
Now architect Don Sowieja of the that an excavation would probably of $30,000 per space to install,
Myhre Group, lead designer of the heavily damage the 1926 landmark
Sowieja proposes a C-shaped
current proposal, thinks he has next door. Creston Homes solution building around an open courtyard
learned from Abrams experience.
was no off-street parking at all which accessible to the street from the
A major point of contention with is allowed by zoning.
west. Plans call for4,000 square feet
the earlier effort was that the pro­
Off-street parking is not required of ground-floor retail, most of it fac-
posed building might conceal the for residential development near ing Sandy, but some on Northeast
façade of the Hollywood Theatre, mass transit, in this case the Holly- Broadway.
the signature artifact of the neigh­ wood Transit Center one block
To the west is what is officially a
borhood. To make some accommo­ away, but most developers consider public street - Northeast 41 st A v-
dation, Sowieja’s plans to step the parking necessary to attract resi- e n u e -th a t in fact functions as a 10-
building’s height down from five dents and financing.
space parking lot. Creston Homes
stories to four at its northeast cor­
“We think there is a market for
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