Portland will find out in June whether or not the port will get a new tenant: 33 million gallons of propane.
City Council is tentatively scheduled to vote June 17 on a proposed zoning change that would allow Canada-based Pembina Pipeline Corporation to build a $500 million propane storage and export facility at Terminal 6 at the Port of Portland, according to Tom Armstrong with the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.
In addition to the June 17 vote, there will be a first reading of the proposed ordinances and a public hearing at 2 pm on June 10 in City Council chambers, Armstrong said.
Commissioners were originally planning to vote April 30, but Armstrong announced last week that “there has been a delay to allow for time to negotiate a detailed intergovernmental agreement with the Port.”
If the April 7 hearing in front of the planning commission—where 300-plus protestors offered commissioners six hours worth of reasons they don’t want the facility—last week’s out-of-order protest at City Council’s Earth Day regular hearing, or the “Fossil Fuel Charlie” posters that have been popping up around town are any indication, the June hearings will be lively.