Neighbors take action to get cars off NE Alberta for Last Thursday.
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Coming up Condos
Fear of Heights Complicates Interstate Rezone Plan
Neon-lined North Interstate is in for big changes—and big buildings
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Fit to Be Tied
The Strongest Thread Tying the City and its Isolated Somali Community Just Got Cut
The city cuts its tie to the Somali community.
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Raise the Roofline
High-Density Condo Development Tests Height (and Neighbors’) Limits
High-density condo plans in historic Northeast neighborhood spark complaints.
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In Other News
Members of the community campaign to end racial profiling delivered a petition and signatures to the mayor’s office on Monday, May 19, demanding action on the issue. The police chief was supposed to have a plan presented to the mayor’s racial profiling group by the end of 2007, but so far, all that’s been seen […]
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Streetwalker Holiday
Neighbors Note Prostitution Spike Along 82nd
RECENTLY, neighbors in the Montavilla neighborhood have noticed a sharp increase in the number of sex workers along 82nd Avenue between SE Powell and NE Sandy. Most residents attribute the influx to one thing: the end of Portland’s Prostitute-Free Zones (PFZs). Together with Drug-Free Zones (DFZs), the “free zones” gave police the authority to “exclude” […]
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An Unexpected Stop
City-Funded Day Laborer Site Delayed
The launch date for the controversial day laborer site on NE MLK and Everett has been pushed back nearly six weeks to June 16. Romeo Sosa, director of VOZ, the organization in charge of running the center, had said as recently as last week that the original May 6 opening day, which VOZ has been […]
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Teed Off
NE Neighbors Battle Golf Course Rezoning
AFTER WEEKS of contentious testimony from area residents, Bureau of Development Services (BDS) Hearings Officer Gregory Frank is in the last phase of making his recommendation to city hall over controversial plans to switch the zoning designation of an 80-year-old golf course in Northeast Portland. The owners of Colwood National Golf Course—which is currently designated […]
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Bridge over Troubled Politics
Activists Rally Around Sauvie Island Bridge Move
Over the dull roar of rush-hour traffic in the I-405 gulch below, a crowd gathered at NW Flanders and 15th to show a little love for a bridge that’s halfway across town—the soon to be scrapped Sauvie Island Bridge. Those gathered—a few dozen cyclists and pedestrians—support Commissioner Sam Adams’ proposal to move the old bridge […]
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Broken Justice
Cops Cite Injured Bicyclist; Not Van Driver
Zajim Smajlovic, a Bosnian truck driver, was riding his bicycle home on SE Holgate one afternoon last October, returning from picking up some photos from Walgreens on SE 82nd. As usual, once he reached SE 78th, he turned left, using the crosswalk to get to the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street—an easier […]
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Pearl District Meth Bust
Cops Arrest Northwest Portland Condo Owner
THE COPS SAY they started hearing from some neighbors at the Pearl District’s Irving Street Lofts several months ago, after an unusually large number of visitors started showing up to unit 408. “We’re talking sometimes 70-80 visitors in a 24-hour period,” says Officer Mark Friedman, whose investigative work, along with the sharp eyes of some […]