ENA LUTC Meeting Minutes: November 14, 2022
Fremont Bridgehead Project Presentation – Allan Rudwick
Link to Recording: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHMcFXqs7H-qtIZm2BmbDqJJxGnrf3OZ8PYRKGzf5WKas6rQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
- History & context of neighborhood
- Displacement of homes for bridgehead and highway
- Decreased census numbers
- Removal of families
- Proposed Prescott Freeway – never built
- On ramps and off-ramps to this proposed freeway
- Before and after images – dense single family homes; now parking lots and long ramp
- Proposing removal of three quarters of ramp, essentially everything northeast of Mississippi Ave.
- Question of ambulance access – new proposal would make for more direct access to ED for ambulances coming off the Fremont Bridge.
- 8 acres would be reclaimed
- Surrounded by City maintenance and shop yards
- 6 acres on one side; 9 on other
- Land valuation – high based on comparable land—$1 billion in land value and significant tax revenue
- Keeping traffic down in adjacent neighborhoods is important
- Pedestrian, bike and Tri-Met corridors could be constructed and cut off significant amounts of time and distance
- Benefits:
- ODOT: Less maintenance burden, opportunity to remedy bad design, positive public relations
- City: Profit from land sale, tax revenue
- Community: Compensation to displaced families, fill gap in urban fabric, rebuilt Tubman Middle School site
- Legacy: Improved ED access
- Next steps: City, community and state will all need to work together
- Grant(s)
- Stakeholder committee
- Divide land, sell at auction
- Q&A:
- Carbon offset. Portland Clean Energy Fund.
- New PPS school at Red Cross site?
- Present to PPS
- Reconnecting Communities grants for exactly these types of projects – part of federal infrastructure bill recently passed
- Interest in keeping some public land for public use, for example a public pool or something similar to ease pressure on already existing public amenities in neighborhood
- Include County leaders
- Call to action – need to connect with organizations, etc. More voices. Time to move past planning stages
Permits
- Streimer rezoning
- IG to EX. Layman’s terms: More industrial to slightly less industrial and flexible.
- We will send letter that is supporting; mention that movement to EX across neighborhood is favored by ENA LUTC
- Mike to write
- Albina Library
- Letter re support; push for activation on street front and less surface parking. Wonder Ballroom parking after hours, or other public parking use after hours
- Jason to write
- Vancouver & Russell apartment building
- Unflattering design, no street front activation
- Rezone push, generally supportive
- Potential of LUTC signing on to higher height in exchange for better use of street front
- Mike will write letter
- Letter re support; push for activation on street front and less surface parking. Wonder Ballroom parking after hours, or other public parking use after hours
- We will send letter that is supporting; mention that movement to EX across neighborhood is favored by ENA LUTC
- IG to EX. Layman’s terms: More industrial to slightly less industrial and flexible.
Eliot Parking Committee
- Allan is on committee
Freeway Lawsuit
- Utilizing our network to fundraise
Updating ENA Design Guidelines
- Current version does not address commercial or multi-family
Action Item:
- Find old minutes and post online
Attendees:
- Allan Rudwick
- Mike Warwick
- Andrew Champion
- Jason Cohen
- Michelle DePass
- Doug Klotz
- John Russell
- Seth Anderson
- John Pugsley
- Paul Buchanan
- Joseph Cortright
- Alan Kessler
- Jeremiah Via
- Eric Wilhelm
- Sherifa
- Victoria
- BNF
Eliot Neighborhood 