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| 102nd Avenue improvement begins at Halsey Street Editor’s note: The following is a brief compilation of news items about the Parkrose and Gateway neighborhoods of Mid-Multnomah County from veteran Beat Reporter Lee Perlman. This month, Perlman reports on the 122nd Avenue project postponement, Columbia Knoll news, a public art project, and on plans for the land surrounding the city’s old Hazelwood Water District headquarters. What are the city’s rules and regulations regarding non-electric signs? Perlman attended a Hazelwood Neighborhood Association meeting and heard from the city’s non-electric sign specialist. You know, lawn signs, those ubiquitous sandwich board signs and business signage. Who ever said attending your neighborhood association was a waste of time? LEE PERLMAN THE MID-COUNTY MEMO Project hearing postponed The 122nd Avenue Project, originally scheduled for a City Council hearing in April, has been delayed to allow staff to clarify some details of the project with the Portland Planning Commission. The Commission, which had given its approval to the project recommendations in February, will discuss it again at a session beginning at 7 p.m. April 25. Public testimony will be accepted. 1900 S.W. 4th Ave., second floor. The Project is seeking to reconcile planning regulations calling for high-intensity, and transit and pedestrian friendly, development near light rail stations with the presence of auto dealerships. Project recommendations call for maintaining the code standards in designated “nodes” near Northeast Glisan, East Burnside and Southeast Stark streets, especially for new businesses, while relaxing these standards between the nodes. The recommendations also call for design review for new development and major remodels in the area. Heights at Columbia Knoll hosts Alzheimer’s event The Heights at Columbia Knoll, a 208 unit senior residence on the site of former Shriner’s Hospital property, opened for occupancy on Feb. 15 and already has 14 residents. Most of the one and two-bedroom units are still available, at rents ranging from $1,165 To $1,665. This includes linen and housekeeping services, use of a common dining room, salon and movie theater, and limo and min-bus transportation to any desired destination. Last month the Heights was host to a press event promoting the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk, a pledge walk through downtown Portland on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 1. The association raises funds for research leading to the cure and prevention of Alzheimer’s, information and referral for caregivers, and public information on ways to avoid or prolong the onset of this dementia. For more information on the event or the association, call 503-413-7158. 102nd Avenue Project re-examines budget Despite being short of funds by $3 million, the result of a worldwide spike in the cost of building materials, the Portland Department of Transportation is proceeding with the 102nd Avenue Improvement Project. The project is intended to make the avenue a more pleasant place to drive, bike and walk through a variety of streetscape improvements. According to Sara King of the Portland Development Commission, the city will begin at the north end - Northeast Halsey Street - and proceed southward until it runs out of funds. However, PDOT and a project advisory committee are reconsidering a “windscape” sculpture slated for the “jug handle auto turnaround” at 102nd and Halsey, consisting of a series of plastic tubes that would bend with the wind atop a bed of recycled concrete. Project planners have begun to question whether this piece is worth a price tag that has escalated into the six figures. Hazelwood ‘hydro’ park planning advances An advisory committee is continuing to plan for a new “hydro” park on the grounds of the old Hazelwood Water District headquarters, four acres bounded by Northeast Holladay and Multnomah streets, and 114th and 117th avenues. The name is meant to designate Portland Water Bureau facilities being converted to other use by Commissioner Randy Leonard, and to distinguish them from the property of the Portland Parks Bureau. In addition to housing a new East Portland Neighborhood Office, plans call for low-key activities such as a path, benches, picnic tables, a horseshoe pit, and a community garden. By popular demand of nearby neighbors, the park will not include athletic fields or anything likely to attract outsiders. >>continued |
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