April 12, 2017
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INSIDE
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City Hall Shake Up
Second bureau
director
dismissed
O PINION
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Paul Scarlett, Portland’s direc-
tor of the Bureau of Development
Services for the last 12 years,
told his department employees on
Monday he was resigning. The
announcement came after he was
asked to step down by Portland
City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly.
Eudaly, a former bookstore
owner, ran on a grassroots hous-
ing reform platform promising to
shake things up at City Hall.
Scarlett is the fourth person in
the last few months to be given no-
tice by Eudaly since taking office
in January. Scarlett, as the head of
the city department which issues
permits for property and land de-
velopment, has seen his share of
adversity during his tenure.
In 2008 during the housing cri-
Paul Scarlett
sis, his staff was severely reduced
and as the real estate bubble re-
bounded the department struggled
without enough personnel as a re-
sult. In the last year, employee and
customer surveys reflected nega-
tively on the bureau. Scarlett is the
second bureau director to be dis-
missed by Eudaly. Amalia Alarcon
de Morris, the former director of
the Office of Neighborhood In-
Chloe Eudaly
volvement was let go in March.
Scarlett will receive a $183,000
severance package.
In his email announcing his
leave, Scarlett said: “I leave know-
ing we have made great strides in
the work we do and I am confident
the bureau and its employees will
continue to play an important, rel-
evant and necessary role in the de-
velopment of this beautiful city.”
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
M ETRO
C LASSIFIEDS
C ALENDAR
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F OOD
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A KOIN-TV photo shows the large bulge and crack found Tuesday on a 10-story office building in down-
town Portland Tuesday.
Building Collapse Scare Downtown
Streets were closed and TriMet service was sus-
pended in a two-block section of downtown Port-
land on Tuesday when a 10-story commercial build-
ing threatened to collapse.
The Fifth Avenue Building at 1400 S.W. Fifth
Ave. hosts a FedEx shipping center, Ebay’s regional
offices, a 24-Hour Fitness gym, offices for OHSU
and a Kindercare children’s day care. The building,
which was constructed in 1951 as the state of Ore-
gon’s main Portland office, was evacuated following
a 911 call made by one of the office employees who
works there.
A spokesman for Portland Fire & Rescue lat-
er said that an initial assessment by city engineers
has led officials to believe that the damage is on the
building’s façade, and is not an imminent structural
concern. No injuries were reported relating to the in-
cident. The building was closed until further notice,
and the cause of the large bulge and crack along the
structure’s eastern face was still under investigation.