I'm glad to see that the electoral process is so transparently for sale. No subterfuge here at all.

I will say it was rather interesting while having guests this past weekend to compare our water bills, with viewpoints from LA, Seattle and Vegas to join my own from here in PDX.
We are getting screwed royally.

" take control of the Portland Water Bureau and Bureau of Development Services" =

" take control of the Portland Water Bureau and Bureau of _Environmental_ Services"

Yes. Damn it. Thanks, R. Fixed.

Oh noes! Teh businesses are expressing interest in the government that taxes and charges them! It must be some kind of conspiracy! A conspiracy to use the same ballot process as everyone else to ask voters what they prefer! Eeeeeeeek!

Politics makes strange bedfellows? I support this initiative.

So soon we could have representatives of big property owners and businesses screwing us for water rates instead of the government. Right. Sounds like a flawless plan.

Finally, we can open up the Bull Run to clear cutting!

Our rates will never be like those in Phoenix until that wasted space starts earning its fucking keep!

People supporting the concrete-pouring, water-degrading Portland Water Bureau are on by themselves on KBOO coming up soon. Makes me feel bad that I supported KBOO. Three apologists for local politicians and nobody representing those who have had our labor and transportation money stolen by Portland City Council over years and years. It took a while for local labor and local business to figure out how federal cronies have been putting Portland people into debt to the Too-Bigs, to hurt us. All this loaded-on debt for pouring stupid amounts of concrete, making a gravity-fed system less so, and degrading the water by burying it with crazy homeland-screwing schemes to get mold and other bad stuff in our water. And it didn't take that many or that much in city grants to get people to go against the stated missions of their alleged non-profits. I used to think I was as jaded as I could get. Then I watched city council. And I grew up near D.C. I know from corruption.

Geez Rilly,
There won't be any opening up Bull Run to logging.
The PPWD initiative ensconces in the City Charter Bull Run protections that preclude logging and other activities that would degrade water quality.
Other initiative provisions include prohibiting the regionalization or relinquishing of Portland's sole ownership of Bull Run, prohibits privatization and commingling of Bull Run water with other lower quality sources such as the Willamette or the Columbia.