The City is having an open house for the Boise & Eliot Parking Management district they are proposing to create. This area would not see any immediate parking permits or meters, but parking time limit signs are proposed for 2025 and an evaluation of those may lead to more tools being used within the district.

To learn more, city staff will be at:

Boise-Eliot/Humboldt Elementary School

1-4 PM, Sunday January 26th

I imagine the information at the open house will be more detailed than what is currently on the project website: https://www.portland.gov/transportation/parking/boise-parking/boise-parking

Here is a map from December of the proposed district.

If adopted, the City will create a Stakeholder Advisory Committee to manage the district which will have an open application. It is expected that some people who have been advising so far will stay on to help advise the implementation but new spots will be available as well.

LUTC Updates – No meeting this month

— Hooray! The City of Portland won a $1 Million grant to study redevelopment of the Kerby avenue ramps – Announced 1/8 https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-merkley-bonamici-dexter-announce-5-million-for-sustainable-community-development-projects-in-portland-metro-area

— The Eliot Parking meter area is being proposed to be merged into a larger Boise-Eliot Parking Management District that will include all of Eliot west of NE MLK, Jr Blvd. Note that this will not change anything currently but will create a meeting space to discuss issues along the Williams corridor. There will be an open house at BEH Elementary Sunday, January 26th https://www.portland.gov/transportation/parking/boise-parking/events/2025/1/26/boise-eliot-parking-management-plan-open

Board Meeting
The next ENA Board meeting is delayed for MLK day to the 4th Monday of the month (1/27) in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day

https://www.portland.gov/bps/planning/reconnecting-albina/news/2024/10/25/calling-all-portlanders-pin-your-ideas-inform

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We invite community members to share your thoughts and concerns by using the Pin It, Portland: Reconnecting Albina interactive map. The map is open for input until January 15.

Pin it, Portland: Reconnecting Albina

Your input on the Pin It, Portland: Reconnecting Albina map will help project staff identify assets, opportunities, and challenges in the project area. To share your thoughts and concerns, add a pin to a desired location within the project boundary, insert your comment, and select one of the following categories in the tool:

• Arts & Culture
• Community Space & Public Facilities
• Environment & Climate Resilience
• Health & Safety
• Housing
• Land Use & Zoning
• Transportation
• Wealth Building
• Other

Portland looks forward to hearing from you!

About the Reconnecting Albina Planning Project (RAPP)

RAPP is a two-year project to create restorative urban development strategies to reconnect the physical fabric of the Lower Albina, Lloyd, and Rose Quarter areas. The project is a collaborative effort involving the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS), Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), Prosper Portland, in partnership with Albina Vision Trust (AVT).

To make the most of Leaf Day, Move your car. Your car will be outside of the zone if it is:

• east to NE 7th or farther
• west to Vancouver or farther
• North to Fremont or farther
• South to Broadway or farther

I know that this is a pain, that many of your neighbors may not do it and that it is disappointing that our LEAF Day is so late in the year, but it is the only one day that the city is going to sweep our streets all year.

Suggestions from PBOT:

• One day before. Rake the leaves you want picked up into the street one day before your scheduled Leaf Day pickup.
• Tree leaves only. Use regular yard bins for twigs, branches, needles, grass clippings, and other debris.
• Keep one foot of space between your pile and the curb for storm runoff and to make it easier for our sweepers. Also allow plenty of clearance between your pile and any vehicle left parked on the street.
• Trim your trees to leave 11 feet of clearance. Make sure you trim any low-hanging tree limbs over the street so our equipment can get as close to the curb as possible and get the best clean. Learn more about tree pruning and permits here.
• Move vehicles and other objects off the street. Whenever possible, allow plenty of clearance between your pile and anything left parked on the street. Leaf Day service districts are small enough that you should never have to travel more than a quarter mile to park a vehicle outside the boundaries of a Leaf Day district.
• Help your neighbors. People are still working from home in large numbers, with vehicles parked longer. Check in with your neighbors so everyone remembers to move their vehicles on Leaf Day.

 FREE Vaccine Clinic at Garlington on Wednesday 11/20 from 3pm-5pm (for Covid and flu vaccines). Cascadia Garlington would like to invite any community members to participate. We are also providing a $25 Fred Meyer gift card for those who attend!

Signups are strongly encouraged through this link, but walk ins will also be served. 

3034 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97212 (NE MLK and Morris St, NE Corner)

The Russell Apartments Tenant Union will host the first public candidate forum of its kind for city council candidates running in Portland’s 2nd district. The forum will take place on Wednesday September 25th from 6:00 to 8:00PM at the Russell Apartments, at 2621 NE 7th Ave, Portland, OR 97212. So far, Candidates Marnie Glickman, Sameer Kanal, Chris Olsen, Jennifer Park and Jonathan Tasini have confirmed their participation in the forum. The candidates will answer urgent concerns from tenants at The Russell, as well as from tenants living in other buildings in the second district who have been invited to join.

The Russell Apartments Tenant Union is one of the few tenant unions in Portland. It was formed earlier this year in response to ongoing grievances from their property management company. At the forum, Russell residents and other attendants will ask the candidates how they plan to use their office to hold landlords and property management companies like theirs accountable.

This event is a pivotal moment for tenants in Portland. City council candidates and other local politicians are recognizing and responding to the growing presence and organization of tenant unions within the city. The forum hosted by the Russell Apartments Tenant Union, the first of its kind in Portland, will provide a platform for tenants to share their concerns directly with the candidates who are running to represent them, ensuring that housing issues remain a top priority in local governance.

This event is open to the Public.

Now is the time to start writing articles or creating advertisements.

There is a deadline of 2 weeks – October 1st to get content in. If you are considering writing, please reach out to news@eliotneighborhood.org to let the Editing and Layout teams know what to expect and save space for.

If you are open to:
– writing
– taking pictures
– creating other content
don’t hesitate to get in touch. Even if you are struggling with ideas.

If you would like your
– business
– organization
– activity
– political candidate
to be announced or advertised in the paper, please reach out as well

news@eliotneighborhood.org

PBOT will be applying this month for Federal Reconnecting Communities Planning Grant to study this project

I am working on a letter of support for this project and would love to have more groups (including yours) sign on. Contact me (lutcchair@eliotneighborhood.org) to get more information.

The Grant will have 3 goals and each will get roughly 1/3 of the planning dollars from this grant

• Study feasibility of reconfiguring and shortening the Fremont Bridge Kerby Ramps
• Study feasibility of relocating, reconfiguring, or consolidating the City Maintenance Yards adjacent to the ramps. 
• Community visioning and opportunity analysis for the Fremont Bridgehead area. 

Do you have time to review a draft letter of support? Would your organization consider signing on? Do you want to be involved more with reading the grant proposal?

Thank you for your support of this vision and your help getting to this point

Allan Rudwick
Eliot LUTC Chair and Project Champion

link for more information on this project

This meeting will be on google meet. See link at the bottom for details.
August Agenda:

Welcome [6:30pm]

Portland: Neighbors Welcome Presentation [Anders]
Inner Eastside for All Campaign: “Four floors and corner stores would make Portland’s inner neighborhoods even better. Our vision is simple: it should be legal for any residential lot from roughly 12th to 60th, Fremont to Powell, to contribute to a thriving, mixed-income, mixed-use fabric of urban neighborhoods by allowing street-scale apartment buildings.”

Updates on ongoing items:

• Event Parking Pilot
• Kerby project
• News
• Letters

Public comment

LUTC Meeting
Monday, Aug 12 · 6:30 – 8:00pm
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/zss-vqyk-jca
Or dial: ‪(US) +1 563-293-5954‬ PIN: ‪887 956 769‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/zss-vqyk-jca?pin=4246301771784