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“Digging deep,
Shining a light”
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***** SERVING PORTLAND’S NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS SINCE 1986
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BY TANYA MARCH
T
he greatest example of civic branding in Portland history was pulled off more
than 100 years ago when
flower fancier and legal
kingpin Fredrick V. Holman ordained Portland
“the rose city.”
In a 1908 Sunset magazine article, “Portland
as the Rose City,” Holman wrote that the city’s
ideal soil and climate, in
which roses could bloom
from May to November,
plus its unparalleled
varieties of the species
made it the one place on
earth worthy of the title.
It’s been the City of Roses
ever since.
Preservationists make their stand in front of Fredrick V. Holman House. Brandy Siegrist (front row, L-R);
Lucian Playford, age 9; Oscar Tice, age 6; Isabelle Hatch, age 8; Michael Johnson and Marzie the dog.
Back row: Brad Playford; Karen Crichton; David Minick; Teresa McGrath; Scott Tice; Tanya March; Fred
Leeson of the Architectural Heritage Center; Ken Forcier; and Susanna Kuo, Lake Oswego Preservation
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Holman also wrote a
column for The Oregonian advising readers on
the planting and care of
Why do you think they call it Vista Bridge?
roses, and his famous
“Fortune’s Yellow” rosebush marked the corner
of Southwest 15th and
Taylor where the prominent bachelor lived with
two of his siblings.
Flowers weren’t the
only thing on his mind.
He was president of the
Oregon Historical Society from 1908-27 and
helped rewrite the Portland city charter. He
served as legal counsel
for utility companies. He
wrote a biography of John
McLoughlin.
He gave the city 52
acres of land above Balch
Creek that is today part of
Forest Park. Holman Park
and Holman Lane bear
his name.
But Holman’s legacy
may soon be stripped of
Continued on page 21
New development
map inside
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
T
he most common question I
hear while walking about the
neighborhood is, “What’s going in
at ...?”
The locations change, but the
underlying curiosity is the same.
People want to know how their
neighborhood is changing and how
that might affect their lives.
As a newspaper, we have the same
interest. Construction often means
new shops or restaurants to visit and
new apartments that will reshape the
look and functioning of the area.
The rate of development long ago
outpaced our ability to report on each
project, or even keep up with all of the
most controversial ones.
Half of the Vista Bridge is obscured in this illustration based on increases in building heights proposed by the Portland Bureau of
Planning & Sustainability. BPS staff confirmed that the image is essentially accurate.
Planning staff
ignores views
in championing
taller buildings
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
I
n a neighborhood whose leaders
have repeatedly expressed fears
that the city is trying to force
increased building heights down
their throats, the Bureau of Planning
& Sustainability’s proposed revisions to its scenic protection map in
Goose Hollow were puzzling.
While building height allowances
are to remain unchanged in other
parts of the district, substantial
increases were recommended where
they would be most noticed—potentially blocking views of downtown
and Mount Hood to the east while
also obscuring views of the Vista
Bridge as seen from Southwest Jefferson Street below.
If the bureau had wanted to slip
in some extra height where no one
would notice, it could not have
Continued on page 6
Inspired by NextPortland.com,
a website developed by Northwest
Portland resident and architect
Iain Mackenzie, the Examiner is
introducing a center spread map noting
all current and pending development
projects. Notes and pictures of some
sites fill the margins, and the intent
is to update the map monthly with
details on different buildings.
For information on sites not
described, we invite readers to visit
NextPortland.com, which is updated
regularly based on documents filed
with the city of Portland.
See pages 14 and 15.
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Editor’s Turn
Height ≠ density
BY ALLAN CLASSEN | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
T
Everyone knows the
difference between height and
width, right?
Why do so many get lost when they
apply these concepts to development?
Building height is obvious enough,
and width is similar to density or
floor-area-ratio (FAR). It has to do
with the building’s internal size,
whether expressed in square feet or
number of housing units.
I’m flummoxed at how many
times people competently (if not
pedantically) explain the relationship
between height and density, then turn
around and say something that shows
they don’t get it. Many developers
and professional planners who should
know better pose greater building
height as the alternative to urban
sprawl.
because the FAR caps are to remain
the same. The taller they get, the
thinner they will have to be. You can
stretch or squeeze the balloon all you
want, but the volume remains the
same.
Yet planners, public officials and
developers continually claim that we
need to build taller to avoid sprawl.
They got away with conflating height
and density when their opponents
were suburbanites at heart who
disliked both height and density. Now
many of those calling them to account
are advocates of urbanity who
understand that great, highly dense
cities do not have to be
particularly tall.
There’s a connection between height
and density, to be sure, but to use the
terms interchangeably is careless and
confusing. When a surgeon puts out
a hand and asks for a scalpel, a bone
saw isn’t good enough. While both
tools might be used to perform some
of the same tasks, there’s no good
reason to treat them as synonyms.
Paris is the leading example. It has
few buildings taller than six floors,
but it has twice the density of New
York because rows of modest-sized
buildings tend to fill entire blocks.
Without increasing allowable building
heights, current Portland zoning is
sufficient for years of growth and
added density.
When backed into this logistical
corner, proponents of height move
to aesthetics. Tall, thin buildings are
prettier than short, squat ones, they
say. Tall structures leave their mark
on the skyline, a matter of pride for
their builders, designers, civic leaders
and the corporations
with headquarters in
them. Views from
on high can also be
breathtaking—for
the few who are
privileged
enough to
occupy
or even
visit the
30th floor.
In Portland, the greater building
heights proposed in the Central City
Plan will not lead to increased density
 Readers Reply
Sidewalk mysteries
There has been a flurry of sidewalk
repair activity in our neighborhood
(between Northwest 23rd and 24th
on Quimby and Raleigh). This all
started last fall when numerous
properties received letters from the
city informing owners that repairs
were required by the city of Portland Sidewalk Maintenance Office.
It seemed strange that a number of
properties in one area had received
the same notice, so I called the
city of Portland Sidewalk Repair
(a division of the Portland Bureau
of Transportation) to ask about the
process. They told me that the city
no longer does routine inspections.
Rather, they rely upon complaints
from citizens to initiate an inspection, which then leads to a repair
notice if the inspector deems it
necessary. They said complaints are
usually initiated by pedestrians or
neighbors.
They also told me that a small number of people call in dozens of com-
But in an era in which economic
inequality is being stretched to the
limits of social and political tolerance,
skyscrapers take us in the wrong
direction. They are more expensive to
build, and their thinner upper floors
have the most expensive space of all.
It’s no coincidence that affordable
apartments scarcely exist above the
sixth floor.
The ultrawealthy who can afford
multimillion-dollar condos atop
towers tend to flit around the globe
from one such home to another. “If
it’s March, this must be Miami,” as
a New York Times feature on this
subject recently quipped.
If this population represents an ideal,
it’s certainly not of social equity … or
even density.
Luxury high-rises are the developers’
dream, drawing maximum value per
square foot of real estate. But that’s
a private benefit. The public price of
“Trump Towers” for the wealthy and
unaffordable housing for the masses is
social division so deep that disaffected
voters would rather tear it all down
than participate in the arduous task of
rebuilding our lost social consensus.
We have not reached the point of no
return, and healthy cities can handle
a few tall buildings, but aren’t the
signposts clear enough? The answer is
not in the clouds. n
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plaints, and that there is no limit
on how many complaints a citizen
may call in.
It certainly seems suspicious that
multiple complaints were filed
about sidewalks in the same neighborhood. Additionally, these complaints were filed at a time such that
the actual repairs would need to be
done during the typical slow period
for contractors (January-March).
I am not a conspiracy nut, and I
understand the need to keep our
sidewalks safe. However, something smells fishy here. Are these
complaints coming from the contractors (perhaps under a false name
or someone acting as a third party)?
The fact that everyone with whom I
have spoken assumes this is a scam
either speaks to the cynicism with
governmental processes widely
prevalent in our society or to something that should be investigated.
Michael Wall
NW Quimby St.
Meters horrifying
I’m trying to wrap my brain around
how the elimination of Zone M
parking is making it easier for residents. The plan was to meter Northwest 21st and 23rd avenues. I can
live with that, although visitors
now just park on the side streets as
they always have.
Residents received a flier several
weeks ago explaining where the
meters would be placed, with a
reassuring undertone of equitable
parking. Much to my horror, I came
home from work tonight to find
they have also metered 22nd Avenue. I knew that my residential
permit was no guarantee of finding
parking close to my home, but it
seems now my permit is basically
just a window decoration. Yet the
city is still encouraging people to
buy permits. This is nothing more
than yet another slap in the face to
Northwest residents. Earlier efforts
Your article in last month’s Examiner left out a decade of history
regarding the Pearl Trash Can Program and the pet litter bag dispensers. While chair of the Pearl Livability Committee in 2000-01, Pearl
District resident Donna Drummond
(now deceased) walked into a meeting with one object in mind. She
was determined to see trash containers placed in our fast-growing
neighborhood. She had a friend at the Portland
Bureau of Transportation who
offered her city-owned trash cans at
no cost as long as the neighborhood
had sponsors to empty and maintain the containers. Some of the
original sponsors were Starbucks
on Glisan, Chown Pella Lofts and
Paragon. Around the same time, Joan Pendergast was able to obtain dog litter
bag dispensers that were purchased
Mary Collins NW Flanders St.
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 Obituaries
Vivienne Bonnin
Vivienne Bonnin, a
graduate of Lincoln
High School, died
March 5 at age 92.
Vivienne Goldberg
was born in Portland’s Jewish community in Southwest Portland July 13, 1923. She
attended Shattuck Elementary School
and Lincoln High School. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in social work and
went to work for the state of Oregon.
She moved to Longview, Wash.,
where she worked for the state for
more than 30 years. She returned to
Portland in 1984, where she volunteered as a mediator with the Better
Business Bureau, served on the
boards of the Robison Home and the
Oregon Jewish Museum. She was a
member of Nevah Shalom and Shaarie Torah. She was also a docent at
the Portland Art Museum. She married John Bonnin in 1952; he died in
1984. She is survived by her daughter
Dr. Marni Bonnin; brother, Dr. Leonard Goldberg; and four grandchildren. Her daughter, Lyn Smith, predeceased her.
Gary Braasch
Gary Braasch, a
Northwest Portland
resident, died March
7 at age 70. He was
born in Omaha,
Neb., and received a
master’s degree from
Northwestern University. He moved to Portland and
married Mary Jo Anderson. He served
in the U.S. Air Force, where he
learned photography, which became
his lifelong occupation. His work has
appeared in The New York Times
Magazine and National Geographic.
His book, “Earth Under Fire: How
Global Warming is Changing the
World,” was hailed by Al Gore. He
was named North American Nature
Photography Association’s Outstanding Nature Photographer award in
2003 and received the Sierra Club’s
Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography in 2006. He is survived by his son, Cedar; sister, Peggy
Strickland; his partner in life and
work, Joan Rothlein; and his former
wife.
Charles E. Carlbom
Charles E. Carlbom, former board chairman and director emeritus of Good
Samaritan Hospital Board of Trustees, died March 16 at age 81. He was
born Aug. 2, 1934, in North Bend. He
attended elementary school in Coos
Bay and graduated from Marshfield
High School in 1952. He graduated
from the University of Oregon with a
degree in business administration. He
served five years active duty in the
U.S. Air Force and 18 years in the Air
Force Reserve, retiring as a lieutenant
colonel. In 1962, he joined Western
Kraft, which later became a part of Willamette Industries, and became a vice
president of the company. In 1982, he
became president and CEO of Western Family Foods, which he moved
from San Francisco to Portland. From
1998-2001, he was president and CEO
of United Grocers. He served on the
Portland State University Foundation
Board. He led the creation of the Food
Industry Leadership Center. He was
president of the Arlington Club and
the Lang Syne Society of Portland,
and a member of the Multnomah Athletic Club and Portland Golf Club. He
is survived by his wife of 61 years, Sue;
daughters, Christine Sauer and Julie
Carlbom; sisters, Virginia Kindrick and
Laura Carlbom; and two grandchildren.
Alfred E. Mann
Alfred E. Mann, a
graduate of Lincoln
High School, died
Feb. 25 at age 90. He
was born in Portland Nov. 6, 1925.
He received bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in physics from UCLA, and
was awarded honorary doctorate
degrees from four universities. He
served in the Army Air Corps during
World War II. He founded medical
device companies that pioneered in
the development of pacemakers,
insulin pumps, cochlear implants
and retinal implants. Other business
ventures involved aerospace, pharmaceuticals, electronic circuitry and
biomedical research. He was the
chairman of MannKind Corp. He was
a member of the University of Southern California board of trustees since
1998 and donated more than $174
million to the university. He is survived by his fourth wife, Claude;
sons, Howard, Brian, Rick, Kevin and
Al Jr.; daughters, Carla Woods and
Cassandra; brother, Robert; sister,
Rosalind Koff; and 10 grandchildren.
Betty Munch
Betty Munch, a
Northwest District
resident for more
than 50 years, died
March 12 at age 75.
Betty Planting was
born May 8, 1940,
and grew up in Astoria, where she graduated from Astoria High School. She
worked for Montgomery Ward on
Northwest Vaughn Street in the 1960s.
She also worked at Northwest Place
for more than 10 years, at the former
Ezekiel’s Wheel on Northwest 21st
Avenue and at Silver Cloud Inn,
where she was head housekeeper.
Her last residence was Robison Home,
where she was honored as Rose
Queen last spring. She is survived by
her daughter, Theresa McKinlay; and
son, John Lamb.
Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers, a
graduate of Lincoln
High School, died
March 16 at age 72.
He was born April
26, 1943, in Portland
and attended Ainsworth Elementary
and Lincoln High School. Bill was a
small business owner who ran a dry
cleaning/laundry business. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Bonnie;
sister, Sally; children, Erin, Sloan and
Rachel; and one grandchild.
Thomas B. Hallman
Thomas
Bashore
Hallman,
former
owner of The Mercantile on Northwest 23rd Avenue,
died March 8 at age
88. He was born
Aug. 21, 1927, in
Chicago. He served
in the U.S. Navy during World War II
and later graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He worked in Chicago as a copywriter
before moving in 1954 to Portland,
where he was hired as an account
executive for the Botsford, Constantine and Gardner ad agency. He later
became general manager. In 1965, he
founded The Mercantile, a high-end
women’s clothing store, which he
sold in 1975. He later worked as a
men’s clothing salesman for Nordstrom. In 1951, he married Beverly
Moore; they divorced in 1977. He is
survived by his brother, John; sons,
Tom Jr., Garth and Jason; and four
grandchildren.
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Robert Lee
Robert Lee, who
grew up on Northwest Savier Street
and attended the
Mennonite Mission
Church a block
away, died Feb. 29
at age 87. He attended Chapman Elementary School and
Lincoln High School. He graduated
Oregon State University in 1949 and
worked as a system engineer at the
Bonneville Power Administration.
He served in Europe and Korea under
the Mennonite Central Committee
from 1951-56 and was a Mennonite
missionary in Japan from 1959-64. He
received a divinity degree from Goshen Biblical Seminary in 1959, and a
doctorate in religion from Harvard
University in 1974. He taught in the
religion departments at the University of Tennessee, Amherst College,
Southwestern University and Boston
University. He was a member of the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, N.J. In 1986, he returned to
Asia, where he taught at Tokyo Biblical Seminary. He cofounded the
Tokyo Mission Research Institute and
the Anabaptist Center for Religion
and Society at Eastern Mennonite
University. He married Nancy Burkholder. He is survived by his wife;
sons, Steven and Robert; daughter,
Suelyn Swiggum; sisters, Jean Hawley and Florence Guimary; brother,
William Lee; and five grandchildren.
Death Notices
Aileen Joyce Clevinger, Multnomah
Athletic Club member.
Lora Elizabeth Digman, 100, Multnomah Athletic Club member.
Dr. Howard J. Geist, 86, staff president
at Good Samaritan Medical Center.
Lynn Jones, 67, registered nurse at
Good Samaritan Hospital.
William J. Moshofsky, 92, member of
the Multnomah Athletic Club.
Michael R. Jubinville, 68, employed
at ESCO.
Peter A. Pfau, 73, 1960 Lincoln High
School graduate.
Robert G. Simpson, 83, board member of Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center.
Zelma Blank, longtime resident of
Goose Hollow.
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Readers letter, continued from page 3
and maintained by the Pearl District
Neighborhood Association. There
were at least three locations that I
can recall. Donna and Joan are the
ones that should be acknowledged
for starting these programs and not
be forgotten for all their effort and
hard work to make our neighborhood a more livable place. even modest improvements to the
east side of the park: Replacing the
slotted benches (which harbor hypodermic needles) with solid surface
benches should have been a priority.
David August
NW Eighth Ave.
The disproportionate influence of
Metropolitan Learning Center parents—most of whom are not neighborhood residents—looms large,
united as they are in the single
purpose of embellishing play opportunities for their children.
Editor’s note: There were smaller,
earlier trash pickup programs, but
they had been discontinued. In a
letter to the city last year, PDNA
President Patricia Gardner referred
only to the 2010 Trash Can Program
as the starting point of neighborhood efforts.
While the playground is one logical
beneficiary of funding, it has become
the driving focus to the detriment of
other park users. Neighborhood residents who are currently dissuaded
from park use have had little input
and will remain alienated as the core
problems of the park persist.
Couch playground
Couch Park requires more park
ranger patrols—full time during dry
months, less frequently in the rainy
season—but no increase in staff is
forthcoming.
Thank you for covering the open
house for the Couch Park Bond Fund
Plan in the March issue.
The purpose of the three open houses was to refine a preexistent master
plan. But who created this master
plan and to what end? The majority
of the questions dealt exclusively
with playground elements; the issue
of cutting elm trees was not even
mentioned.
Based on conversations with neighbors, no one welcomes the cutting
of mature cherry and elm trees and
changing the plaza to cement. They
fear this portends a further park
flattening and reduction in canopy.
Furthermore, one must ask if ADA
compliance demands the ripping out
of the brick plaza at a vast expense. The $2.2 million budget ignores
The most popular park activity, the
summer concerts, is now to be cut.
We also have been told that the Parks
Bureau is considering cutting the
funds for preventive treatments for
elms, a species so important to our
district.
These developments would indicate
that our neighborhood’s interests
do not count for much with Parks
Bureau leadership, even as it lavishly spends.
Myriam Alaux
Joe Adreon Keller
NW Hoyt St.
Community service
With sponsorships from Food Front
Cooperative, SOLVE and the NWDA,
the Northwest Second Saturday
Neighborhood Clean-Up event has
been held for more than eight years,
missing only one month with snow
on the ground.
Front Front has been a loyal sponsor
from the outset. More recently, New
Seasons Market has joined in by consistently providing volunteers.
The event was cloned to create the
Northwest Third Saturday CleanUp with Elephants Deli Delicatessen and Trader Joe’s as sponsors.
Sponsors provide meeting space
(Food Front and Elephants), dumpster capacity (Food Front and Trader Joe’s), supplies (SOLVE), publicity (SOLVE, NW Examiner and
NWDA), gift cards (Food Front and
Elephants) and snacks (Food Front
and Elephants).
Many community-minded volunteers have kept the Northwest
neighborhood relatively free of litter.
Monthly attendance at each event is
consistently between six and 26. The
Food Front event alone has hosted
more than 1,000 volunteer hours,
removing tons of trash from streets
and the I-405 freeway island. Many
volunteers are regulars, many are
from other communities and some
are fulfilling their service project
obligations, but the hard work, rain
or shine, of by all of these volunteers
is very much appreciated.
We’ve kept these events simple-just an hour of cleanup followed by
snacks and socialization. There is
the old slogan “Think globally, act
locally.” These events are a simple
and social way to improve the community around us.
We want to take this opportunity to
thank all of these sponsors and the
many volunteers for many months
of keeping up with street litter in our
active neighborhood!
Phil Selinger, NW Thurman St.
Wayne Wirta, NW Quimby St.
Rob Fullmer, NW Hoyt St.
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An anonymously filed
ethics complaint last
year charged that 24
of 33 members of the
Stakeholders Advisory
Committee to this section of the Central City
Plan were conflicted.
"Vista Bridge" cont'd from page 1
picked a worse strategy.
Mark Velky, a plain-spoken member of the Goose Hollow Foothills
League board, put it most eloquently at a community gripe session
hosted by BPS:
“Why did you do that?”
The query was unanswered if not
unanswerable.
Had he made such an ill-conceived recommendation, Goose
Hollow resident Tim Stokes
advised, “I would say, ‘Oops.’”
BPS planning manager Sallie
Edmunds immediately grasped
the larger context of the situation, explaining that the bureau is
tightening the process by which it
receives input from developers and
other citizens.
An anonymously filed ethics
complaint last year charged that 24
of 33 members of the Stakeholders
Advisory Committee to this section of the Central City Plan were
developers, architects or otherwise
had financial conflicts of interest.
The City Auditor’s Office upheld
the complaint and directed all city
bureaus to require that citizen advisors disclose their affiliations and
interests before participating on
such committees.
GHFL President Tracy Prince
said later that the bureau cannot
claim naïveté about the sensitivity
of disrupting views. After hearing
for more than a year that the bureau
Views of Mount Hood, as seen from the Vista Bridge, were already compromised when
the city passed the Scenic Resources Protection Plan in 1991. Proposed changes in the
Central City Plan would further obscure the mountain and views to the east.
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Hollow, Prince was stunned to hear
recently from an architect working on redevelopment of Lincoln
High School that substantial height
increases were coming to the area.
Prince told the architect she
believed he was in error. But after
reading the latest draft of the Central City Scenic Resources Inventory, she realized she was the one
in the dark.
Prince resented having to pore
through large documents to discover such bombshells rather than
hearing directly from city staff about
new wrinkles that did not live up to
promises.
“Every time I read a new document, I find a new way we’ve been
screwed over,” she told the Examiner.
Prince’s indignation led to the
March 3 meeting at BPS offices,
which was open to the public and
press. About 30 citizens attended.
GHFL representative Scott Schaffer was allowed to present a PowerPoint demonstrating the folly of
relaxing scenic protections.
Schaffer said views from the Vista
Bridge were identified for protection by the Olmsted brothers in
the 1920s. Furthermore, Jefferson
Street/Canyon Road, which the
bridge spans, was once “The Great
Plank Road” built in the 1850s to
bring farm produce to the city and
harbor.
BPS scenic resources specialist
Mindy Brooks said she downgraded
Southwest Jefferson Street from a
“view corridor” to a “view street”
based on a panel of experts who
reviewed photographs of the area.
The difference in these classifications is that view streets entail no
building height limits.
But all in the room conceded
that view streets adjoined by tall
buildings must be straight or the
structures will block sightlines. Jefferson is curved, and photos Schaffer borrowed from a BPS document
showed that about half of the Vista
Bridge would be invisible from
below if developers take full advantage of a proposed height increase
from the current 45 feet to 130 feet.
Much of Mount Hood would also
be screened out by potential taller
buildings downtown.
BPS staff offered no defense of its
recommendations.
When GHFL resident Bill Failing
charged that the consequence of
the proposed plan would do exactly what Schaffer claimed, Brooks
replied, “You are right. … Our proposal would allow development
that would block half of the Vista
Bridge.”
Another BPS planner, Nicholas
Starin, admitted, “We’re not perfect.
That’s why we have a public review
draft.”
“We’re doing another look at
Jefferson Street,” Brooks told the
Examiner later.
Parting shot
Two weeks after the meeting at
BPS, the league issued a six-page
statement recommending changes
in the Central City 2035 Plan regarding views and building heights.
The statement also took a swipe at
the process leading to the current
CC2035 draft.
“GHFL requests that the ombudsman’s letter and the required conflict of interest disclosures by West
Quadrant Stakeholders Advisory
Committee members be included
in the CC2035 plan so that Portland residents can understand how
comp plan decisions came to be.
“Allowing SAC members to vote
on issues that could enrich them
personally is the very definition
of graft. Great distrust of the public process is created when city
bureaus and agencies choose SAC
members who stand to gain financially from the issues being discussed and voted on. GHFL recommends that this should never occur
again on any SAC.” n
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he people governing the
Northwest Parking Program
the past two years were surprised to be snubbed on their recommendation requiring larger new
apartment buildings to include offstreet parking.
A proposal to bring the Northwest District into alignment with a
citywide parking standard ran into
staunch opposition last month at
the Portland Bureau of Planning &
Sustainability Commission, which
did not offer a motion to support
the request.
Marty Kehoe’s Tess O’Brien
Apartments, a two-building complex facing Northwest Overton
and Pettygrove between 19th and
20th avenues, will have 126 units
but no off-street parking.
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May.
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Portland Bureau of Transportation.
“We were too late to find out
parking minimums from 2013 don’t
apply to plan districts,” said SAC
chair Rick Michaelson, according to
the official BPS meeting minutes of
March 8. “There are currently about
13,000 residents, 14,000 employees
and just 5,000 parking spaces in the
district, with 7,500 parking permits
competing for the spaces.
“Over 20 years, we’re looking at
adding 10,000 housing units in the
district, and we don’t think this
plan addresses these issues.”
SAC members testifying at the
March 8 BPS meeting were followed by five citizens speaking
against the parking requirement.
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es the cost of housing, encourages
greater auto use and undercuts city
environmental goals.
BPS commissioners, including
Chris Smith, a Northwest District
resident who worked for years on
the parking plan, found those arguments persuasive.
“It was amazing to me that they
shot it down,” said SAC member
and Northwest District Association
President Tavo Cruz, who was bothered that the commission ignored
years of study by local representatives.
“We’ve got a parking problem that
is getting worse all the time,” said
SAC member Karen Karlsson.
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NEWS
Vaughn Street Park memories
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BY DONALD R. NELSON
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Park has been gone for
60 years, the memories
live on.
The park represented a
way of life in the neighborhood. Young men got jobs
as batboys and clubhouse
boys. Residents young and
old worked in the concession
stands as a second job or as a
means to help their parents
out.
American Legion, semipro and City League baseball
teams played on the ballfield
when the Portland Beavers
were out of town. Annual
grand openings for the start
of women’s and men’s softball seasons were also held
at Vaughn Street. Even the
Vatican Choir held a concert
at the stadium in 1947, only
to have its musical selections
accented by a cacophony of
industrial sounds from the
Electric Steel Foundry Co.
(ESCO), train whistles, automobile and boat horns.
L.H Gregory of The Oregonian wrote about the ballpark’s history in the mid1950s. The stadium was
built in 1901 by the heads
of two rival streetcar companies to increase ridership.
C.F. Swigert of the City and
Suburban Railway Co. and
F.I. Fuller of the Portland
Railway Co. joined in that
unusual partnership.
MAKE ART
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Fans at Vaughn Street Park overflowed onto the playing field in this
1930s photo. This was a common opening day occurrence in that
Donald R. Nelson collection
era. In 1903, it became home to
a Pacific Coast League baseball team that would later
become known as the Portland Beavers. The ballpark
was rebuilt and enlarged in
1912.
The Wilson Street right
of way cut through the stadium, and the city periodically threatened to reopen the
street to force the ball club to
move to a new stadium, capturing rounds of press coverage. The club promised to
move by 1931 but continued
to patch up the decaying ballpark year after year. In 1945,
when the permit to keep Wilson Street vacated had not
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Above left: The historic marker at Northwest 24th Place and Thurman
streets.
Above middle: Fans dressed up for one of the last games in the stadium in
September, 1955.
Above right: Fire damaged the ballpark in September, 1947.
All photos from Donald R. Nelson collection
if someone needed to get through on
Wilson Street between 24th and 25th,
they could take down the fence and
drive across the field.
A smoldering fire ignited after a
game in September 1947, destroyed
part of the center field bleachers, the
right field fence and a building at
ESCO. Fires under the stands were
quickly extinguished with buckets
of water by groundskeeper Rocky
Benevento. Firemen determined that
discarded cigarettes and cigars smoldered for hours and ignited debris
underneath the stands. In spite of
risks, the next season those tobacco
products were still sold at the games.
Despite calls for demolition by the
city and talk of a new stadium on the
Eastside, repairs were made and the
old stadium limped on for eight more
seasons. The final game was held on
Sept. 11, 1955. Owners of the California Bag & Metal Co. (now known as
Calbag) had purchased the property
a month earlier, and ESCO in turn
became interested in the property.
The Portland Beavers Baseball Club
moved to Multnomah Stadium, now
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Corner of Northwest
24th and Vaughn, where
a plaque honoring
groundskeeper Rocky
Benevento is mounted
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ESCO parking lot.
Donald R. Nelson photo
"Vaughn Park" cont'd from page 11
under the grandstand.
Providence Park, for the next season,
bringing some elements of the old stadium with them. Benevento moved
the sod from Vaughn Street Park to
the team’s new home. Benevento’s
assistant, Larry Klein, remembers
pulling out several thousand of the
old seats, loading them on trailers
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Stadium, where they were stored
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Street near 24th Avenue. It mentions Benevento’s affiliation with
the ballpark for 30 years. Across
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with a historic photo and history of
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Baseball memories
Pat Polich remembers operating the manual scoreboard in center field at
Vaughn Street in the late
1930s. He was in the eighth
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each received 25 cents.
Polich’s brother Bob was
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covered the infield with a tarp during
rain. He made 25 cents every time
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Another job of Bob’s was to track
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Bob recently recalled that in the late
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against the Portland Beavers. Someone
was continually ridiculing the outfielder.
When a rented seat cushion landed on
the field near Williams, he threw it back
into the stands.
Donald R. Nelson photo
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BY ALLAN CLASSEN
Gardner said she and other neighbors favor additional shelters, perhaps in vacant storefronts, and want
to address the homeless problem. But
public participation rules and landuse laws must be followed.
Westside neighborhood associations
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to the livability impacts posed by the
city’s new Safe Sleep Policy, which
has loosened restrictions on camping
and sleeping in public places.
Mayor Charlie Hales has declared
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allowing camping on sidewalks overnight, supposedly within limits. An
official city information card advises,
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a.m. in the morning.”
Portland Police Lt. Mike Frome,
speaking last month at a meeting of 12
Westside neighborhood association
representatives, said the bureau has
“only a handful of officers” to police
hundreds of camps so enforcement
options are severely limited.
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policy, issued in late December.
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everyone to put up with this,” said
Ron Walters, past president of the
Northwest District Association. “It’s
a free-for-all. It doesn’t serve anyone
well. … I think it’s an awful solution.”
In an effort to be compassionate and
fair-minded, “I was willing to give it
six months to see if it works,” Walters
said, “but it’s noticeably worse.”
“It will not be solved behind closed
doors. It could be solved if the public
were engaged. The arrogance is in not
believing the public can help.”
Tents line the sidewalk under the I-405 freeway on Northwest Johnson Street.
Wesley Mahan photo
Other NWDA board members
affirmed his observations, and no one
contested the assessment.
solution, Walters said. To do otherwise would cause city officials to
dismiss the letter as too harsh.
“It’s not acceptable to allow camping on sidewalks in front of homes,”
said NWDA Livability Committee
Chair Page Stockwell, adding that his
neighbors tell him they no longer feel
safe walking through the neighborhood.
NWDA President Tavo Cruz, noting
that at least three board members had
reservations about the letter, decided
to hold off action for another month,
when a new draft of the letter will be
considered.
But when Stockwell proposed
sending a letter to the mayor outlining criticisms of the Safe Sleep Policy,
the board demurred.
“I wouldn’t support sending this letter,” said board member Karen Karlsson, noting that it is “tough to not
sound insensitive” when complaining about programs for the homeless.
The issue is so sensitive that we
need to craft a careful letter that
includes support for a long-range
In the Pearl District, neighborhood
association President Patricia Gardner is focusing on the mayor’s failure
to follow normal channels of citizen
input, not to mention city and state
law.
“Before they legalize camping
throughout the city,” Gardner said,
“there must be a public process.”
“You’re not supposed to do this by
fiat in Portland,” Gardner said. “They
are making decisions behind closed
doors, and when it comes to land use,
In 2013, PDNA joined a suit challenging city plans to move the Right2Dream Too camp under the Broadway Bridge. At the time, Gardner said
she supported permanent buildings
for the homeless rather than tents or
temporary structures.
The Downtown Neighborhood
Association called a special meeting
March 22 to get public input and
adopt a formal position on the city’s
suspension of its camping ordinance. “The camping ordinance has not
been enforced in over a year, and we
have clear evidence of the impact
of no enforcement,” DNA President
Felicia Williams said. “This is one
of those rare issues that cuts across
almost every neighborhood and
affects every person who lives or
works in Portland.” Resolutions NW will moderate a
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NW PORTLAND / PEARL DI
Announced
Permit Review
Early
Assistance
Under
Construction
Design /
Land Use
NW Wilson St.
NW Vaughn St.
NW Upshur St.
Completed
NW Thurman St
NW Savier St.
NW Raleigh St.
NW Quimby St.
NW 21st Ave.
CON-WAY BLOCKS 294E - 295R
NW 23rd Ave.
14 stories, including 238 apartments over 1 story of retail, with 2
levels of subgrade parking. On the southern block, 6 stories with
ground floor retail. 160 residential units. 2 levels underground parking
structure.
NW Pettygrove St.
NW Overton St.
NW Northrup St.
NW Marshall St.
Legacy Good Sam
Hospital
NW Lovejoy St.
NW Kearney St.
Soderstrom Architects have submitted a Conditional Use Master Plan Amendment for a project at 2145 NW Overton St: For
Conditional Use Master Plan Amendment to Allow Converting the
Overton Warehouse to Parking.
NW 23rd Ave.
2145 NW OVERTON
NW Johnson St.
NW Irving St.
NW 23rd Ave.
NW 21st Ave.
NW Glisan St.
NW Flanders St.
NW Everett St.
NW Davis St.
MARKET HILL COMMONS, SW 20th
The Design
Commission
has approved
the Market Hill
Commons, which
will include 16
residential units,
16 parking stalls
and 24 long-term
bicycle parking
spaces. The design of the project is by Texas-based Urban
Foundry Architecture, working with Oregon-based architect
of record, Stephen Gerber. The developer is Scotia Western
States Housing. It will be located on a steeply sloped, triangular site at the southern end of SW 20th Ave. Existing stairs
adjacent to the site lead up from SW 20th to Market St. Due to
the significant difference in elevation between the two streets,
the 5-story building will be located entirely below the grade of
SW Market St.
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NW 18th Ave.
Couch
Park
NW 19th Ave.
NW Hoyt St.
1440 SW TAYLOR
LEEB Architects have scheduled a Pre-Application Conference
to discuss a project at 1440 SW Taylor St: Pre-application
conference to discuss a six-story, 81-unit, residential apartment
and parking garage for 30 cars on ground floor.
NW Couch S
W. Burnside St.
W. Burnside
Pullout of the
Goose Hollow area
Providence
Park
Lincoln
High School
SW Je
fferson
SW
Salm
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on
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STRICT DEVELOPMENT MAP
Fr
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1970 NW 18TH
A building permit was issued to Green Gables Design & Restoration for a project at 1970 NW 18th Ave: New construction of
building to house three tenants, two stories at center; main floor
includes tenant spaces, 2 accessible restrooms and common
area, 2nd floor is a part of tenant 1, overhead door at tenant 3
space; stormwater planter facility at exterior and pavers
t.
NW
Na
ito
PEARL BLOCK 20
Pa
rk
Bora Architects have submitted Pearl Block 20 for Design
Review: Proposed high-rise
condominium building with
above-grade parking
w
ay
The Fields
Park
PEARL BLOCK 136
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Springs
Park
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wa
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Br idg
Br
Union
Station
NW 10th Ave.
Jamison
Square
US Post Office
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NW Naity Parkway
NW 1st Ave.
A building permit was issued to
TVA Architects for the Jefferson
14 Apartments: New 6-story
apartment building, landscaping
and site improvements
l
ee
St
NW 2nd Ave.
Construction is underway on the
North Hollow Apartments in Goose
Hollow. The 6 story building by
SERA Architects for developers
Molasky Group and Trinity 3 Investments will include 121 residential
units, one 900-sq-ft retail space and 65 vehicular parking spaces. 184
bicycle parking spaces will be provided. The ground floor will be primarily
residential. However, these units have been designed to easily convert
to retail spaces. Through a 10-year property tax exemption passed by
the City Council in December, 24 units will be reserved for households
earning no more than 80 percent of Portland’s median family income.
ge
NW 3rd Ave.
1450 SW JEFFERSON
1501 SW TAYLOR
NORTH HOLLOW APTS JEFFERSON 14 APTS
NW 4th Ave.
North Park Blocks
W. Burnside St.
NW 5th Ave.
NW 6th Ave.
NW 7th Ave.
NW 8th Ave.
NW Park Ave.
NW 9th Ave.
NW 11th Ave.
NW 12th Ave.
NW 13th Ave.
NW 14th Ave.
NW 16th Ave.
NW 17th Ave.
St.
e St.
Construction has begun on
Pearl Block 136, on the site of
the former PNCA Goodman
building. The project consists
of two buildings separated
by a publicly accessible courtyard: a 5-story office building facing NW 13th Ave; and a
15-story residential tower facing NW 12th Ave. Underground
parking for both buildings will be accessed from NW 12th
Ave, with 211 auto spaces and 332 long-term bicycle parking
spaces. The design of the project is by Seattle based architects Mithun, for developer Security Properties.
NW 14 &
NW GLISAN
Ankrom Moisan Architects have returned to
the Design Commission with revised
designs for a 16-story
tower at NW 14th and
Glisan. The developer
is Holland Partner
Group. The mixed-use building will contain 243 residential units and 6,414-sq-ft of ground-floor retail. Parking
for 207 vehicles is planned on four underground levels.
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 Going Out
Northwest restaurateurs
brace for minimum wage rise
BY CHAD WALSH
gratuity charge.
T
“We will most likely … apply an X percent autogratuity—which will be made very obvious to the
customer—and then suggest additional tip amounts
that take into account the auto-gratuity amount,”
he says. “If we apply a 5 percent auto-gratuity, we
would then suggest additional tip amounts of 10,
12 and 15 percent. The idea here is to allow the client to keep a large discretion as to what they tip for
their service without having to radically increase
our prices. I think this is the best solution.”
“While we support workers making a livable
wage, we won’t fully understand the ramifications
of the wage adjustment until we’re in it,” says
Vitaly Paley, chef-owner of Paley’s Place and downtown’s Imperial.
However, service charges, like price increases,
invite customer blowback.
“We’re watching our neighbors in Seattle and
looking for a solution or series of solutions that will
not erode our customer base and allow workers to
earn a livable wage. If it happens, we will all be in
it together.”
Still, some form of the service charge looks likely.
he minimum wage in Portland will rise from
the present $9.25 an hour to $14.75 an hour
by 2022.
It’s good news for the people who bag your groceries, pump your gas and prepare your tacos, but it
worries operators of higher-end restaurants, where
cooks often plateau at $12-$14 an hour while servers and bartenders can earn up to $30 or $40 an
hour.
Nick Zukin, formerly of Kenny & Zuke’s and now
running Chinatown’s Mi Mero Mole, echoes Paley’s
analysis.
“I’m sure there will be a lot of research that will
come out of all these attempts to rapidly raise the
minimum wage,” he says. “Hopefully it works out,
because by the time we know its effects, it will have
already caused them.”
Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker tried this approach when
he opened a Pok Pok in Los Angeles, but customers
and servers both rebelled.
BJ Smith, the chef-owner behind Smokehouse 21,
says he thinks it makes the most sense.
“People are already complaining about menu
prices,” he says. “But people don’t really want to
see the $20 hamburger become a reality.”
He thinks a modest price increase with a 10 percent service charge might work.
What are those potential effects? A rise in menu
prices, for one, and the elimination of tipping, for
another. Another option is adding a service charge.
Still, it’s tricky. Smith says he wants to see his
cooks earn more—after all, he’s been where they
are now. But he worries that the day his dishwasher
earns a living wage (which he fully supports), he’ll
have to give his sous chef and lead cooks a second
raise—to either $17 or $18 per hour—to keep them
happy.
Kurt Huffman, who runs the restaurant group
ChefStable, which includes St. Jack and the
upcoming Grassa on Northwest 23rd, thinks
many restaurants will raise prices and institute a
Zukin is also worried that the increase will leave
him in a bind. His restaurant has counter service,
and his employees pool tips, an arrangement that
allows everyone to earn more than $15 per hour.
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Server at
Smokehouse 21. Chad Walsh photo
But this year, the U.S. Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled that servers
who are required to tip other employees are skirting the law.
“We’ll be watching the competition,” he says. “Is Chipotle raising
their prices? Can we get away with
one person doing drinks and taking orders, rather than a person for
each? Can the person who makes
tortillas also make tacos? If people
wait 15 minutes for their food instead
of 10, does that keep them from coming in?
“Maybe we stop checking on customers and bussing their tables at
all,” he continues. “Maybe we switch
from draft beers and mixed cocktails
to bottled beers and batched cocktails. Maybe we go to a tablet ordering
system. Hard to say.”
Ultimately, it all comes down to
the diners. Will they be willing to pay
more for dinner when cooks and dishwashers begin earning higher wages?
“Payroll is by far the largest line
item expense any restaurant has,”
Huffman says. “We are in an industry
where the average profit margin is 5
percent. When you have a law that
is going to mandate a 50 percent pay
increase to half of a restaurant’s staff,
the impact will be potentially devastating to many businesses. Without
significant price increases, restaurants won’t make ends meet. Hopefully customers understand these economics.”
Smith thinks Portland’s ownerchefs all need to meet to discuss what
to do about it.
“If half of us are doing it one way,
and half are doing it the other way,
it’s going to take a year for us all to
figure out which is the least-worst
way of doing things,” he says.
“I think we should all meet at the
Imperial to see how we can fix this,”
he says. “After all, all of us have
pretty much worked for Vito at one
some point.
“It’s like this: We all share the
employees, we all share the same
purveyors, we all share the same philosophies, so we should all share the
same solution, too.”. n
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GOING OUT
Resurrections and Reinventions
WHAT’S OPEN
BOXER RAMEN NW
Boxer Ramen, Micah Camden, Katie Poppe and
Matt Lynch’s Asian noodle shop, now has Alphabet District digs. The 28-seat spot’s menu of shios,
misos, shoyus and curry bowls will be identical to
Boxer’s other locations downtown and on Alberta
Street, but Lynch says the space’s larger kitchen
will allow more seasonal daily specials. The new
space also features an eight-seat chef’s counter.
Beer, sake and a handful of starters round the
menu out. Hours of operation will be noon-9 p.m.
on weekdays, and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturdays and
Sundays.
2309 NW Kearney St. • boxerramen.com
70 more diners and a second-story private events
space—has had a series of short-term restaurants,
but the Roots are hoping to change that by offering dishes like potato-leek-and-jalapeño gratin,
pork ’n’ apple Dutch pie, cracklin’ beef shortrib,
lobster Cubanos and lemon chiffon pie—all of
which is served on eclectic vintage china. Hours
are 4:30-10 p.m. nightly, with dinner service
lasting an extra hour on Fridays and Saturdays,
and closing an hour earlier on Sundays.
911 NW 11th Ave., 971-229-1166
thehairylobster.com
LOVEJOY BAKERS UPTOWN
Within months of turning their casual Uptown
Shopping Center spot, Sal’s Italian Kitchen, into
Sorellina, a fresh-pasta-by-hand space, Tracy
and Marc Frankel have decided to completely
THE HAIRY LOBSTER
change gears. This time, the couple (who also
David and Melissa Root opened The Hairy Lobster own the city’s many Pizzicato pizzerias) is leanlast month in the old Jamison (née Fenouil) space
ing on the ringer in their restaurant stable: their
just north of Jamison Square. David, who runs the successful Lovejoy Bakers operation. The new
savory side of the menu, has a storied career heal- bakery will serve lunch and all-day breakfast
ing sick restaurants, and Melissa, a chocolatier and weekdays, with brunch served all day on Satpastry chef, has Michelin-star cooking cred. The
urday and Sunday. Menu highlights include
110-seat spot—which has a patio large enough for
lunchtime Cubanos, pork belly bánh mìs and
fried chicken sandwiches, and weekend buttermilk waffles, eggs Benedict and cinnamon-raisin
challah French toast. It’s open 7 a.m.-5 p.m.
daily, with weekend brunches until 3 p.m.
33 NW 23rd Pl., 503-467-4067
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A new restaurant and wine bar is operating in
the old Glyph space on the
North Park Blocks. Oregon
Table quietly opened in midFebruary, but it’s hoping to
draw large crowds thanks to
pulling in chef Tim Fuhrman
(who years ago helped open
the Portland City Grill),
and former Cathedral Ridge
Winery tasting room manager Sandy Ison. The menu
includes lamb lollipops, a
quartet of flat bread pizzas,
sirloin steaks and northwest
mussels, each paired with
the wines selected by Ison.
The space is also home to
afternoon wine tastings, and
weekend entertainment.
Think live music on Fridays
and Saturdays, and Sunday
night comedy shows featuring Portland-based
comics.
804 NW Couch St., 503-719-5481
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BY CHAD WALSH
THE WAITING ROOM
The craftsman-style house just off of Northwest
23rd has played host to many restaurants. Chefs
Tom Dunklin and Kyle Roark (both previously
of downtown’s Red Star Tavern) are hoping to
crack that curse, and they’re starting by offering
Louisiana-style friend chicken (Dunklin is from
the Crescent City), oysters, champagne and craft
cocktails. They also serve seasonal small plates
that will rotate depending on the season. The
40-seat space (which seats an additional 20 on
the front patio) has been brightened with yellow
and light blue paint, and has been augmented
with meaningful touches: Their friends made the
tables and the plates, and chefs found someone
online who handmade them seersucker napkins.
The bar will focus on homemade root and birch
beers, tap cocktails and wines. It’s open from
5-10 p.m. daily, but Dunklin says they’ll add
lunch and brunch and expand hours soon.
2327 NW Kearney St., 503-477-4380
thewaitingroompdx.com
WHAT’S CHANGED
CRACKERJACKS PUB & EATERY
A couple of lifelong Portlanders took over the
reigns of Crackerjacks Pub in March. Jason Vaden
and Sean Brazie say there will be no drastic
changes to the pub’s interior or its menu. However, Vaden says they plan on “dressing up” the
outdoor patio and extending hours. For years,
the place was closed on Sundays and didn’t
open on Saturdays till late-afternoon. Crackerjacks will keep 11 a.m.-midnight hours seven
Oregon Table
days a week. Vaden also hopes to make the bar,
decked out with TVs, will become a Slabtown
hub for Timbers fans.
2788 NW Thurman St., 503-222-9069
crackerjackspub.com
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GOING OUT
GOOD COFFEE
NO BACKTALK
since 1976
The Waiting Room
PAYMASTER LOUNGE
more composed dishes inspired by
Creole and pan-Asian flavors. The
Thiscaption
popular Slabtown bar known
menu should be fully in place by
for its spot-on cheeseburgers and
early-April. Conachan is scaling
vintage beer signs shuttered briefly
back live music from five nights a
last month for remodeling. The
week to three, and says his son will
outdoor covered patio has been
introduce weekly RSVP-only fourspruced up and given a grander
tasting
will show
entry.
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space with
highmenus
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and abundant
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fit forthe
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a darkened
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navia and other cultures.
owners have installed large win1101 NW Northrup St., 503-227dows and doors for a full view of
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your
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The cofSeattle import a perfect fit for its heartof-the-Pearl District environs. They fee is from Sterling, which McGovern
roast their own up north for use here. also owns, and scrumptious pastries
The resulting drinks offer an assertive are brought in from a citywide favorite,
flavor less like the smooth medium Bakeshop.
roasts common among Portland microHOT TIP: If you can’t find a seat (or
roasters and more like Starbucks, even if you can), enjoy the rotating art
though without the latter’s burnt, sour exhibits that fill the walls.
notes. This is a large space, so seating
PETTY GRIPE: You can’t escape
isn’t usually a problem, though patrons
the sound and fury of Burnside traffic
can enjoy a quick morning shot standwhizzing by.
ing at the counter or one of the small
high-top tables in the front of the room.
Coffeehouse Northwest
Caffe Umbria
Courier Coffee
HOT TIP: Beer, wine and sandwiches provide an alternative to the usual
limited coffee shop fare.
PETTY GRIPE: Not a fan of the
shiny, happy part-time Portlander
crowd? Do all things Seattle bum you
out? Best move along.
JIM AND PATTY'S COFFEE
on NW Lovejoy across from the hospital
2246 Lovejoy 503 477 8363
923 SW Oak St.
couriercoffeeroasters.com
This pitch-perfect hipster hangout
is the retail store and cafe for the original oh-so-Portland micro-roaster and
coffee-by-bike delivery service. The ▶
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Superfund cleanup forum
A community forum on the Superfund
cleanup of the Willamette River is
scheduled for Tuesday, April 26,
7-9 p.m., in the Portland Building
Auditorium, 1120 SW Fifth Ave.
Decisions on the EPA’s proposed plan for
the Lower Willamette River will be made
this spring, and citizens are invited to
speak out on their concerns and priorities.
The event is sponsored by the Portland
Harbor Community Advisory Group.
Plant sale
Audubon Society of Portland will hold
its 20th annual native plant sale Saturday,
April 23, and Sunday, April 24, 10 a.m.-5
p.m., at 5151 NW Cornell Rd. Highlights
include more than 100 species of native
plants for sale, advice from experienced
gardener volunteers and appearances by the
Audubon Education birds of prey. There is
no admission charge. All proceeds benefit
Portland Audubon programs such as nature
education, wildlife sanctuaries, and wildlife
rehabilitation. For more information:
audubonportland.org/sanctuaries/plant-sale
or 503-292-6855 ext. 140.
Rotary programs
Portland Pearl Rotary Club meets
Tuesdays at 7:25 a.m. in the Ecotrust
Building, 721 NW Ninth Ave., second
floor. The public is invited. A $10 charge
includes breakfast. For information,
contact Randy Vogt, vogt4me1@icloud.
com or 503-228-9858.
April 5: “Transforming Homeless
Teen’s lives,” Bert Waugh, chairman
of Berkshire Hathaway Home
Services NW.
April 12: “Polio Plus,” Dennis.
April 19: “A Musical Journey Along
the Lincoln Highway,” Cecelia Otto,
singer, composer and author.
Community Events
April 26: “Sewage Treatment
Listening to birds
and Sanitation for San Juancito,
Honduras—And We Helped!” Dean
Fialka, president elect.
The Audubon Society of Portland hosts a
multimedia presentation by photographer
and videographer Gerrit Vyn, author of
New York Times bestseller “The Living
Bird: 100 Years of Listening to Nature,”
Thursday, April 21, 7 p.m., in the lower
ballroom at Montgomery Park, 2701 NW
Vaughn St. A $5 donation is suggested.
For information, call 503-292-9453.
Park Blocks Playground
An open house to review concept
plans for the North Park Blocks
Playground Bond Project will be held
Monday, April 25, 5:30-7 p.m., at We
Work – Customs House, 220 NW
Eighth Ave. For information, visit:
portlandoregon.gov/parks/69742.
Bike share open house
An open house to consider sites for
BIKETOWN bike share stations will
be held Tuesday, April 5, 6-8 p.m., at
Metropolitan Learning Center, 2333
NW Glisan St. The city is considering
locations for 100 stations when the
program is launched in July 2016. For
information, visit: BIKETOWNpdx.com.
Family concert
The Fambly Ramble, featuring Grammy
award nominee Gustafer Yellowgold with
Red Yarn, will be held at McMenamins
Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan
St., 4 p.m., Saturday, April 23. Preshow activities for children will be
provided by NW Kids Magazine, Hike It
Baby and SCRAP. Tickets are $10 through
etix and $12 at the show.
Rewild Fundraiser
The Rewild Portland Spring Fundraiser
will be held Friday, April 15, 6:30-10
p.m., at Ecotrust, Natural Capital Center,
Northwest Ninth and Johnson. Hannes
EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS
Wingate, a local artist who created the
“Burnside Nest,” will make a presentation
at 7 p.m. on his nest projects and how art
can connect people with nature. A silent
auction opens at 6 p.m. There will also be
live music and a demonstration of ancestral
skills, such as basket weaving and stone
tools. A $10-$25 donation is requested.
For information, visit rewildportland.com/
think-globally-rewild-locally.
Cleary celebration
Celebrate the 100th birthday of beloved
local children’s author Beverly Cleary
with a play date Tuesday, April 12,
3-4:30 p.m. at Northwest Library, 2300
NW Thurman St. There will be crafts,
readings and cake. Cleary now lives in
California and does not travel.
Earth Day
Several Westside neighborhoods are
hosting Earth Day cleanups Saturday,
April 23. Visit the SOLVE website for
details.
Polish the Pearl, 8:30-11 a.m.
Forest Park Neighborhood, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Ma Olsen Garden restoration, 9 a.m.-noon.
Old Town Chinatown cleaning, 9-11 a.m.
Sylvan Highlands Neighborhood cleanup,
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Death
and culture
“Grave Matters: Cultural Diversity on Life
and Death,” a conversation on how other
cultural traditions understand mortality
and teach about living a purposeful life.
The event, which will employ video,
song, humor, short readings and other
activities, is underwritten by The National
Endowment for the Humanities Fund
of The Library Foundation and Oregon
Humanities. It will be held Sunday, April
24, 2 p.m., at Northwest Library, 2300
NW Thurman St.
Internet
and community
Is community disappearing or
strengthening as we gaze at smart phones,
video games, online movies and web
pages? “Lost and Found: Community in
the Age of the Internet,” a discussion led
by Tod Sloan, a Lewis & Clark professor,
will be held Monday, April 25, 6-7:30
p.m., at Northwest Library, 2300 NW
Thurman St.
Volunteer
at hostel
A Volunteer Mixer for individuals
interested in organizing gatherings
to connect NorthwestHostel guests
with Portland neighbors will be held
Thursday, April 14, 5:30 p.m., at 425
NW 18th Ave. Contact Kristal at info@
nwportlandhostel.com to learn more.
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2013-14.
Johnson was also
listed by the Oregon
Secretary of State as
an owner of the house
until last month. She
told the Examiner she
sold her interest in
the property last year
for reasons having
nothing to do with
company’s decision
to demolish the Holman House.
Owners of the property applied for and
obtained a demolition
permit on the same
day, March 4, skirting
regulations intended
to delay destruction of
historically significant
structures.
The
impending demolition has
shocked many people who assumed a
building code enacted by the Bureau of
Development
Services in April, 2015
would have triggered
a 35-day delay.
Owners of the Holman House, KHK
LLC, had a contractor, Mike Doran of
Skanska USA Building Inc, a New York-based company, apply
for a demolition permit on March 4. City staff
approved the permit the same day.
Aerial view of the quarter-block property containing the Holman House and its parking
lot.
Bing Maps
"History in a heap" cont'd from page 1
the house he had built in 1891 and lived in
until his death in 1927. Owners of the property
applied for and obtained a demolition permit
on the same day, March 4, skirting regulations
intended to delay destruction of historically
significant structures. The building is on the
city’s Historic Resources Inventory, a status
that ordinarily delays issuance of demolition
permits to provide opportunity for preservationists to explore alternatives.
The house, at 1500 SW Taylor St., is owned
by a company headed by attorney Christopher
Kent, who is also the lead partner of Kent &
Johnson LLP, a law firm operating in the house.
His partner is Leslie Johnson, who was president of the Goose Hollow Foothills League in
In single-family residential zones, BDS can
grant 35-day delays, which can be extended
to an additional 60 days if a hearings officer
confirms a building’s significance and accepts
a plan for purchasing the building.
Unfortunately, this site is zoned RX-Central
Residential.
State regulations, however, are in conflict.
They stipulate that an owner may remove a
property, whether commercial or residential,
from the Historic Resources Inventory only
after a 120-day waiting period.
We ARE the Pearl District Specialists
Continued on page 22
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The house was in residential
use until 1956, when Mrs. Asby
Dickson converted it to office
use. The conversion allowed it
to remain essentially intact as
major redevelopment, including
the construction of Lincoln High
School a block away, transformed
the neighborhood. The historic
Kamm House, once a block south
of the Holman House, was moved
to make way for the school.
director of Restore Oregon, a Portland-based nonprofit focused on
historic preservation.
The Holman house is not listed
on the National Register of Historic Places.
“It could have been listed [on
the National Register of Historic Places], but that’s a voluntary
thing. It wasn’t registered,” Morretti told OregonLive.
Jerry Powell of the Goose Hollow Foothills League called the
city’s landmark protections “gutless,” giving property owners virtually limitless prerogatives to do
with their property as they please.
Even delaying demolitions can be
impossible, he added.
“We totally understand the
whole density argument and the
need for that. But we are losing some very significant cultural
assets. There are other ways to
achieve density without throwing away magnificent houses like
that,” she said.
Powell is seeking an opinion from the City Attorney as
to whether BDS properly applied
local law in granting the demolition permit.
“It would be nice if it could be
moved. It’s a gorgeous house. It’s
very unfortunate.” n
“We’re very sad that there isn’t
a legal recourse at this moment,”
said Peggy Morretti, executive
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City fails to survey, protect
historic landmarks
T
he city of Portland is grossly behind in surveying its
historic assets, as required
under Goal 5 of the statewide planning goals.
The required documentation
of more than a dozen resources—including historic places—is
designed to help planners and politicians make educated strategies for
the future of our region to plan and
zone land to conserve resources
listed in the goals. The bulk of
work of surveying historic assets in
Portland was produced by volunteers in the 1980s, and their efforts
form the backbone of the Historic
Resources Inventory.
Preservationists worked with the
city and developers to reconfigure the demolition delay system
in 2015, hoping to prevent overthe-counter issuance of demolition
permits for resources listed on the
HRI. Those activists expected that
documented historic assets would
earn a 35-day demolition delay at
a minimum.
There are four criteria by which
neighborhood associations can trigger an additional 60-day delay.
Had the new system been in
effect in 2013, the citizen effort to
save the Goldsmith House, which
has been a commercial office building for years, would not have been
granted the 35-day delay, making
that preservation campaign impossible.
Activist Dan Haneckow has a
novel strategy to save Portland’s
architectural heritage: “There
needs to be a wicked cultural loss
abatement fee leveled on anyone
intending to demolish a structure
featured in ‘Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon 1850-1950’ by William Hawkins.”
BDS compliance with the existing rules in place to protect Goal 5
assets would be a step forward.
--Tanya March
Holman House bears stamp of famed architect Edgar Lazarus
BY TANYA MARCH
Edgar Marks Lazarus, who designed
the Fredrick V. Holman House at
1500 SW Taylor St., was a dominant
force in Portland architecture for
45 years. Lazarus is best known for
designing the Vista House at Crown
Point in the Columbia River Gorge,
completed in 1918.
His other public buildings include the U.S.
Customhouse
in
the North Park
Blocks and the
first Multnomah
Athletic Club
in downtown
Portland.
through his ability to network within Portland’s social clubs and the
support he received from the elite of
the Jewish community.
In 1895, Lazarus dissolved his
partnership with William M. Ellicott
and, operating as an independent
practitioner for the next 14 years,
shifted his attention to public projects. He was the resident architect
under James Knox Taylor of the
Customhouse from 18981901 and designed
alterations to Pioneer Courthouse in
1903–04.
He designed
the first Neighb o r h o o d
House, a settlement house
for
recent
immigrants
still
standing in Southwest Portland.
He designed
Ahavai Shalom Synagogue,
which
was
built in 1904 and
remained a landmark until its demolition in 1978.
Lazarus,
who arrived
in Portland
in 1891 at age
23, also left
his mark on
local residential architecture with many
Queen
Anne
Architect Edgar Lazarus
shingle-style manNorman Gholston
sions. They are
collection
notable for their steep
rooflines that curve
slightly outward, turrets,
One of his greatest comround-headed vent openings and
missions was a temporary structhe absence of exterior ornamenta- ture; the largest building at the 1905
tion, other than the skin-like pat- Lewis & Clark Centennial Expositerning of the shingles themselves.
tion, the domed, 90,000-square-foot
The Holman House was one of baroque-style Palace of Architecture.
his first projects in Portland. At the
Lazarus briefly joined the firm of
same time, he was designing the Ber- Lazarus, Whitehouse & Fouilhoux
nard Goldsmith House at Northwest in 1909-10, designing homes such
24th and Quimby, which was saved as 806 SW King St. for Edward King,
from demolition by a group of more as well as a number of grand apartthan 20 neighbors and preservation- ment buildings, including 705 Davis
ists two years ago.
(2141 NW Davis St. today), where he
The Holman House, as can be seen was one of the first residents but not
in the 1911 photo at right, originally given credit for its design, and The
had its designer’s signature shingle Wickersham at 410 NW 18th Ave. n
work, which was later removed.
The young Lazarus rapidly gained
commissions in his new hometown
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Above: Holman House in 1911
Right: Early image of the
home’s interior.
Both photos courtesy
Architectural Heritage Center
ennial Mills
od Association
 Business Briefs
The Portland Development
Commission is taking a more modest
approach to the preservation and
redevelopment of Centennial Mills,
but total demolition of the complex
is off the table for now. PDC is
looking for a private developer who
will restore the existing flour mill
and build a pedestrian connection
to the greenway along the river.
Development must be completed in
three years.
Regarding a January public forum
sponsored by the Pearl District
Neighborhood Association, PDC’s
Sara Harpole said, “We heard you
loud and clear about preservation of
the buildings.”
Laughing Planet will add a location
in Cedar Mill at 625 NW Saltzman Rd.
in late May.
Rich’s Cigar Store at 706 NW 23rd
Ave. has closed, but the company still
has stores in the Pearl and downtown.
Fringe Vintage, a clothing and
accessory shop at 1700 NW Marshall
St., has closed.
Health clinic chain Zoom is moving
its headquarters from Hillsboro to the
new Pearl West building at Northwest
14th and Irving streets.
Aerial Overview
"Resurrections" cont'd from page 19
new Abbey will have more taps
for German beers and a lot more
room to store drink-in and carryout bottles. However, since the new
space doesn’t have a kitchen, the
menu will be slimmer. Kelley is
aiming for an April 22 grand opening, although she expects to softly
open prior to that. The old Abbey
will stay open until she can find a
tenant for the space.
1650 NW 23rd Ave.
theabbeybar.com
GRASSA
Rick Gencarelli, the Philadelphia
native behind the mini-empire of
Portland’s three Lardo sandwich
shops, will open a second Grassa—
his budding pasta empire—in the
old Pastaria location, which closed
last month. Gencarelli plans to
open the 80-plus-seat space the first
week of April.
1506 NW 23rd Ave.
grassapdx.com
PINK ROSE (VOL. 2)
The Pink Rose nightclub, which
never hit its stride in the Pearl District, closed in March. But Herman
Regusters is hoping a new approach
and nonprofit mission will revive
the name and space. Regusters is
going to beef up the menu, emphasizing comfort classics, and adding creative cocktails. Soon, he’ll
bring in live jazz and blues bands
for evening shows. Proceeds for the
entire venture will go to charities.
Through Mozaic Restaurant Group,
his recently incorporated food and
service business, and his Los Angeles-based nonprofit, Discoveries
of Hope, Regusters aims to devote
surplus revenues to causes such as
autism and breast cancer. Opening
day will be sometime this month.
1300 NW Lovejoy St.
SLABTOWN PIZZA BAR
Last month, long-time restaurant
worker and first-time restaurateur
Brian Carrick shared with us the
details of his upcoming pizzeria,
Slabtown Pizza Bar. The nearly
50-seat space will offer “crispy
thin-crust” pizzas (baked in a deck
oven that reaches temperatures of
900 degrees) alongside vegetablecentric small plates and charcuterie. The restaurant will feature a
full bar with 10 taps (eight for beer,
two for wine), a 10-seat communal dining table and will seat 25
outdoors. His partner is Scott Lawrence (formerly of Breakside Brewing) who will be the chef. Located
on the same block as the new
Besaw’s, it will begin serving lunch
and dinner sometime in May.
1505 NW 21st Ave.
WHAT’S CLOSED
TRADER VIC’S
It’s official. Trader Vic’s, the tikithemed bar with locations all
over the world, closed its doors
for good after a fire in the space
above it damaged the bar’s ceiling.
In 2010, Trader Vic’s returned to
Portland after a long hiatus, only to
close after four-and-a-half years at
the corner of Northwest 12th and
Glisan in the Pearl District. The
company, which was founded in
the United States in the 1930s, now
has only two franchises in the U.S.:
Atlanta and Emeryville, Calif.
1203 NW Glisan St.
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Business
Old Town Chinatown
Community
Association
Board Elections
Wednesday, April 6th
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave.
There are 8 open positions.
Current Board Members running for re-election:
• Jessie Burke
• Zachary Fruchtengarten
• Dan Lenzen
• Jackie Peterson Loomis
• Sarah Stevenson
3 new candidates running:
• Chelsea Brockman
• Charles Mattouk
• Will Naito
Planning for Real
Workshop
NATURAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
Qing Ming:
Kite Making
& Storytelling
Sunday, April 3rd
Portland’s Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan looks at Portland’s
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
risks from natural hazards, and identifies strategies to make the
NW Davis Festival Street
city more resilient.
between 3rd and 4th Ave.
Saturday, April 23rd, 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Qing Ming is a time to honor
Lincoln High School Cafeteria, 1600 SW Salmon St.
ancestors and celebrate the
arrival of spring. Join members
Why should you attend?
of the Pearl District and Old
• Get to know your natural hazard risks.
Town Chinatown in micro kite• Select and prioritize projects to make Portland more resilient. making and sharing stories of
• Ensure that your community’s needs and interests are confamily and community written
sidered.
by residents in our community.
• Connect with your neighbors about preparedness.
Funded through a NWNW
• There will be snacks and kids are welcome!
& ONI Neighborhood Small
For more information: Danielle Butsick, Project Coordinator
Grant. Contact Gloria Lee,
[email protected] 503.823.3926
[email protected]
portlandoregon.gov/pbem/naturalhazard
Any and all members of the Association are eligible to run for Interpretation is available if requested one week prior to the meeting.
a board position up to the time
of election.
If you would like to run for
a seat please contact OTCTCA President, Helen Ying,
[email protected].
Earth Day
Clothing Swap
Friday, April 22nd
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Portland State University
Park Blocks
Clean out your closets or look
for new clothes at the Earth
Day clothing swap. Bring your
gently used clothes and clothing
accessories to the PSU Park
Blocks and help our neighbors
while cleaning out your closets.
All unswapped clothes will be
donated to Gaia USA.
Portland
Downtown
Annual Meeting
& Elections
Tuesday, May 31st
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
Room, 1032 SW Main St.
(entrance on 12th)
An annual update on everything
happening in downtown: public
safety, land use, transportation,
emergency preparedness, and
upcoming summer events.
PDC Centennial
Mills Open House
NWDA 2016 Annual
Meeting & Elections
Monday, May 23rd, 6:00 pm
Location TBD
Have a significant and lasting effect on your neighborhood by serving on
the Northwest District Association (NWDA) Board. The NWDA is actively
involved in improving our neighborhood. We work with the City and other
public and private partners, and sometimes we fight City Hall (and win).
We have standing committees that influence our air quality, parking and
transportation, and land use, including development proposals. Some
things we worked on in 2015 included: The Comprehensive Plan, Slabtown
Square, implementation of the NW Parking Plan, homelessness impacts,
twice-a-month neighborhood cleanups and activities in local parks.
Wednesday, April 13th
6:00 pm
Portland Development Commission, 222 NW 5th Ave.
PDC will have stations illustrating the 2006 Framework
Plan principles, the Site Plan
post demolition, the Feed and
Flour options demo and/or restore, and the Open Space and
Connections.
Representatives from PDC,
Parks and Recreation, KPFF
Engineers and CBRE Brokerage will be in attendance to
answer any questions.
If you live, own property or a business, or represent a corporation or nonprofit within our boundaries, you are eligible to run for our neighborhood
association’s Board of Directors. You must be a member of the NWDA
to run for office. To register for membership, click on “Join Us” at
northwestdistrictassociation.org. View a map of the NWDA boundaries
at: nwnw.org/neighborhood/NWDA.
Share your vision. There are 8 open director positions, plus the
presidency. To be on the ballot, you must declare your candidacy for
Director or for President in writing by 5:00 pm, Friday, April 15th, 2016.
Send declarations of candidacy to: NWDA Elections Committee, 2257 NW
Raleigh Street, Portland, OR 97210 or email [email protected].
We have tentatively scheduled a public meeting of the Elections
Committee to declare the official slate of candidates at 3:00 pm Friday,
April 22 (to be confirmed).
For more information: Mark Sieber at 503.823.4212 or [email protected]
Neighborhood columns are the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Neighbors West-Northwest
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Special
Events
Multnomah County Candidates Forum
Join us as we get to know the Multnomah County candidates for District #1 Commissioner. Voice your concerns!
Saturday, April 16th
4:30 - 5:00 pm - Meet-and-greet with the candidates
5:00 - 6:00 pm - Forum
Grace Bible Church, 1431 SW 12th Ave.
Confirmed attendance from 5 District #1 candidates
• Marisha Childs
• Sharon Meieran
• Mel Rader
• Brian Wilson
• Eric Zimmerman
Please call ahead to make arrangements for disability access
Parking available at PSU Parking Structure
3, 1631 SW 12th Ave.
Public transportation options:
Max: Goose Hollow stop or PSU Urban Center
stop, both 10 minute walk.
Streetcar: Stop at SW 10th & Clay (2 blocks
away) or SW 11th & Clay (1 block away)
Bus: Stop at SW Columbia and 12th (1 block
away), bus #s 6, 45, 55, 58, 68.
Earth Day Neighborhood Cleanups April 23rd
Register Now at SOLVEOregon.ORG!
Polish the Pearl
8:30 am - 11:00 am / Meet at Peet’s Coffee, 1114 NW Couch St.
Join neighbors and friends for a spring neighborhood clean-up of the Pearl District! Clean up includes picking up litter
and recyclables from neighborhood streets and parks. A limited amount of supplies are provided, such as safety vests,
gloves, trash pickers, brooms, trash bags, etc. Check-in for the event between 8:30-8:45 am at Peet’s Coffee to receive
a free coffee, get a street assignment, pick up supplies, and meet your teammates. Teams leave for assigned streets
at 9 am. Finish at 11am and go to Rogue Brewery (1339 NW Flanders) to turn in supplies, receive snacks, and enter a
free raffle. This event happens rain or shine - be sure to dress for the weather. Polish the Pearl is a bi-annual event
organized by the Pearl District Neighborhood Association (PDNA) Livability and Safety Committee.
Coordinator: Jennifer Posivak, [email protected], 971-258-1559
Forest Park Neighborhood Clean-up
9:00 am - 1:00 pm / Meet at NW Skyline Blvd and NW Germantown Rd. parking lot
Every year people drive through and around Forest Park and leave an amazing amount of trash behind. So, every year
the Forest
Park
Neighborhood
Association brings together friends and neighbors to pick up nearly 2,000 tons of trash.
Photo by
Dina
Avila
Everyone is welcome since we have all kinds of terrain to cover. Join us at 9 am for coffee and donuts and end with
chili and cookies afterwards. Coordinator: Leslie Hildula, [email protected], 503-939-8648
Beautify Old Town Chinatown
NWDA Third Saturday Earth Day Cleanup
neighbors and community members in cleaning and beautifying the
tree wells and streetscapes. Lunch will be served. If available please
bring gardening gloves and tools.
Join volunteers for this monthly Third Saturday Cleanup in NW Portland to pick up litter
in the area. Join us for some coffee and conversation afterward. Volunteers should
come prepared with completed waiver forms (if possible) and work gloves on cold days.
Coordinator: Beth Hansen, [email protected], 503-428-4231
Coordinator: Rob Fullmer, [email protected], 503-725-8047
Ma Olsen Garden Restoration
No Ivy League Invasive Removal event
Ecological restoration of Ma Olsen’s Garden. Includes ivy and other
invasive species removal. Bring work gloves, tools, and clothes for the
weather. Coordinator: Rob Lee, [email protected]
Ivy be gone! Join Portland Parks & Recreation’s No Ivy League to continue our ivy
removal efforts in Forest Park. Help restore this important habitat for wildlife, native
plants and the community. Please dress for the weather, wear sturdy, closed toed shoes
and bring a water bottle. Tools, gloves, instructions and snacks provided.
NOTE, this event only APRIL 16th
Come and help beautify Old Town Chinatown. Join in the fun with 9:00 am - 10:00 am / Meet at Elephant’s Deli, 115 NW 22nd Ave.
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Meet at the CCBA, 315 NW Davis St.
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ma Olsen Garden, St. Helens Rd. at NW 108th Ave.
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Meet at the shelter next to the green building, 2960 NW Upshur St.
Coordinator: Mary Verrilli, [email protected], 503-823-8367
Friends of Riverplace Cleanup
9:00 am - 12:00 pm / Meet at Little River Café on RiverPlace Esplanade
in front of the Marina, 315 SW Montgomery
We need your help to clean the Gateway to your RiverPlace Marina and Esplanade.
Come at 9 for coffee, trash bags, reachers and gloves. Make new friends and help
keep your downtown clean for tourists, kids and residents. If available please bring:
boots, work gloves, litter grabber.
Coordinator: Susan West, [email protected], 503-780-4645
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April
2016
Linnton
Neighborhood
Association
arlingtonheightspdx.org
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Apr. 11 & May 9, 6:00 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd.
Forest Park
Neighborhood
Association
forestparkneighbors.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Apr. 19, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Willis Community Building
360 NW Greenleaf Rd.
Goose Hollow
Foothills
League
goosehollow.org
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Thurs., Apr. 21, 7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St.
Planning & Zoning Committee
Tues., Apr. 5 & May 3, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St.
Public Safety, Parking,
and Transportation Committee
Tues., Apr. 19, 6:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson St.
Ad hoc Membership Registry Cmte
Weds., Apr. 20, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave.
Ad hoc Bylaws Committee
Weds., Apr. 27, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave.
hillsidena.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Apr. 12, 7:30 pm
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Terr.
linnton.com
TOWN MEETING &
BOARD MEETING
Weds., May 4
7:00 pm
Linnton Community Center
10614 NW St. Helens Rd.
Contact: Charlie Clark, 503.459.3610
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Apr. 4 & May 2, 12:30 pm
FH HOA Office, 2061 NW Miller Rd
Executive Committee
Weds., Apr. 6 & May 4, 9:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th Ave.
nwindustrial.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Apr. 12 & May 10, 7:00 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn St.
Air Quality Committee
Mon., Apr. 11 & May 9, 7:00 pm
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St.
Parks Committee
Fri., Apr. 8 & May 13, 9:00 am
Coffee Time, 712 NW 21st Ave.
Planning Committee
Thurs., Apr. 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5 &
12, 8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St.
Call to confirm, 503.823.4212
oldtownchinatown.org
COMMUNITY MEETING
Weds., Apr. 6 & May 4, 11:30 am
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave.
Pearl Party/Finance Committee
Mon., Apr. 4 & May 2, 6:00 pm
Paragon Restaurant & Bar
1309 NW Hoyt St.
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Apr. 13 & May 11, 11:30 am
University of Oregon
70 NW Couch St.
Art History and Culture Cmte
Weds., Apr. 27, 11:30 am
Non Profit Center
221 NW 2nd Ave.
Business Committee
Thurs., Apr. 27, 10:00 am
Davis Street Tavern, 500 NW Davis St.
portlanddowntownna.com
BOARD & GENERAL MEETING
Tues., Apr. 26, 5:30 pm
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main St.
Hospitality Committee
Thurs., Apr. 21, 6:00 pm
Location TBA
Land Use & Transportation Cmte
Mon., Apr. 18, 5:30 pm
1900 Building, Room 2500 B
1900 SW 4th Ave.
Public Safety & Livability Cmte
Tues., Apr. 12 & May 10, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox B
2211 NW Marshall St.
Land Use Design & Review Cmte
Tues., Apr. 19, 11:30 am
University of Oregon
70 NW Couch St.
Public Safety Action Committee
Weds., May 11, 12:00 pm
Portland Building, Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave.
Transportation Committee
Weds., Apr. 6 & May 4, 6:00pm
LGS, Wilcox B
2211 NW Marshall St.
Livability & Public Safety Cmte
Tues., Apr. 19, 3:30 pm
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St.
Emergency Preparedness Cmte
Mon., Apr. 11, 5:30 pm
Meels on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main St.
2nd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Apr. 9 & May 14, 9:00 am
Food Front Co-op
2375 NW Thurman St.
Transportation & Mobility Cmte
Tues., Apr. 5 & May 3, 4:00 pm
University of Oregon
70 NW Couch St.
3rd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Apr. 16, 9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd Ave.
Qing Ming
Sun., Apr. 3, 10:00 am
Davis Festival Street, 3rd & 4th
Neighbors West-Northwest Coalition
NWNW HOMLESSNESS FORUM
www.nwnw.org
Wed., April 20th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Portland Bldg, 2nd floor auditorium
1120 SW 5th Avenue
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Apr. 13 & May 11, 5:30 pm
LGS, Northrup Building, 2282 NW Northrup St.
Join Neighbors West-Northwest to
get more information about the city’s
plan to address homelessness.
Find calendar updates at: nwnw.org/Calendar
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Planning & Transportation Cmte
Tues., Apr. 5, 19 & May 3, 6:00 pm
Desk Hub, 334 NW 11th Ave.
Emergency Preparedness Cmte
Mon., Apr. 11 & May 9, 6:00 pm
Ecotrust Bldg, 907 NW Irving St.
northwestdistrictassociation.org
Executive Committee
Weds., Apr. 6 & May 4, 8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh St.
Livability & Safety Committee
Weds., Apr. 6 & May 4, 5:30 pm
Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave.
Communications Committee
Tues., Apr. 26, 6:00 pm
LRS Architects, 720 NW Davis, Ste 300
Northwest
District
Association
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Apr. 18, 6:00 pm
Legacy Good Samaritan (LGS)
Wilcox ACR 102
2211 NW Marshall St.
BOARD MEETING
Special meeting with Mayors staff
to discuss Homelessness Initiative
Thurs., Apr. 14, 6:00 pm
Desk Hub, 334 NW 11th Ave.
Thurs. May 12, 6:00 pm
Desk Hub, 334 NW 11th Ave.
Linnton Creek Trailhead
Restoration
Sat., Apr. 9 & May 14, 9:00 am
NW St. Helens Rd. at 105th
Ma Olsen’s Garden Work Party
Sat., Apr. 23, 9:00 am
Ma Olsen Garden
NW St. Helens Rd. at 108th
pearldistrict.org
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sylvanhighlands.org
MEMBERSHIP & BOARD MEETING
Tues., Apr. 12 & May 10, 7:00 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd.
Emergency Preparedness Cmte
Mon., Apr. 18, 6:30 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd.
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Snapshots
BUSINESS
SELCO Community Credit
Union donated $1,100 to
Friendly House, which was
chosen as the favorite local
charity of a credit union
member whose name was
drawn at random. In the
photograph are: Marjory
Scott, Friendly House staff;
Tucker, Friendly House dog;
Ruth Roth, Friendly House
auction chair; Mary Perrault, Friendly House staff;
Monique Eldridge, Friendly
House staff; and Leasa
Wilkens, manager of SELCO
Northwest Portland branch.
The Lincoln High
School varsity chess
team repeated as state
champions in March.
Members of the team
were Clemen Deng
(L-R), Duane Lee, Kian
Patel, Gabe Skoro and
Anders Olsen.
Local artist Hannes Wingate has created several
giant birds’ nests as public art with a goal of connecting people and nature. Wingate will make a
presentation at the Rewild Portland Spring Fundraiser April 15 at Ecotrust Natural Capital Center.
See page 20 for details.
Portland Police Bureau released this sketch of
a suspect who assaulted a woman at Southwest
18th and Main streets last month. The suspect
grabbed the 25-year-old victim by the hair and
hit her head on the ground repeatedly before
running away. She later sought medical attention
for her injuries, which were not life-threatening.
The suspect is described as a white or lightskinned African American male, 6-feet, 1-inches
tall. The victim told police she believed the suspect might have been high and/or in a mental
health crisis. People with information about this
assault or the identity of this suspect are asked to
contact Detective Todd Prosser at 503-823-0400,
[email protected].
Andrew Ferguson, 27, was arrested
and booked for assault, driving
under the influence of intoxicants
and reckless driving March 26 after
a pedestrian was struck while crossing Northwest Fourth Avenue at
Davis Street. A 66-year-old man was
taken by ambulance for treatment
of serious but not apparently lifethreatening injuries.
Chuck O'Neal, pastor of Beaverton Grace Bible Church, shouts
Bible verses and screeds on abortion at the Lovejoy Surgicenter. O’Neal and his followers are one of several groups that
regularly protest at the clinic. Photo by Wesley Mahan
CORRECTION
In the March 2016 NW Examiner, we incorrectly attributed this
statement:
‘“The [police] sweeps don’t distinguish between the peaceful
hobos and the punks looking for trouble,” Commissioner Dan
Saltzman said during the February work session, attributing the
quote to a homeless person.”
The speaker was Commissioner Steve Novick, not Saltzman.
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