Notes from Special Eliot Land Use and Transportation Meeting
February 03, 2014
The Rodney/Williams discussion
LUTC Meeting Agenda 2014-02-17
Eliot Neighborhood Land Use and Transportation Committee Meeting
Monday February 17th 2014 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Legacy Emanual Hospital – Room 1027
2801 N. Gantenbein
Bird is the Word
The spotted owl has been a flash point for forest management in Oregon for decades, but how many of us have actually seen one, or its nemesis, the barred owl? I haven’t, and I grew up in a logging community.
Planning Eliot
The Comprehensive Plan process continues. The second round of plan comments ended December 31. The Comp Plan, as it is called, is a 20-year blueprint for how the City of Portland envisions its growth and development in the upcoming two decades. It will affect how all of Portland’s neighborhoods and streets evolve, especially close in neighborhoods like Eliot. Some of the plan’s outlines were already agreed upon in the NE Quadrant Plan that was covered in the Eliot News previously. That two year effort proposed a number of changes to zoning along Broadway and into Eliot and west of Williams south of Russell.
Planning Portland
The current Comprehensive Planning process provides city planners with a once every 20-year opportunity to rethink planning processes and tools. It is evaluating two tools that are important to Eliot as part of that process; the Ex zone and “institutional” (hospitals and colleges) land uses and users.
Eliot Comments on Portland’s Comprehensive Plan
Eliot Neighborhood Association Proposed Comp Plan Zoning Amendments
Submitted by Mike Warwick, Land Use Chair
Our purpose is to protect and preserve the historic properties and character of the former City of Albina, to better align zoning to the prevailing development preferences of residential infill developers and to address underutilization of property over the past 20 years due to inappropriate zoning, both too high a residential density for single lots under separate ownership and parcels along MLK.
Continue reading Eliot Comments on Portland’s Comprehensive Plan
Design Advice Review Says 85′ is OK
Ben Kaiser’s proposed 85 foot tall building on the SE corner of Williams and Fremont went for a “design advice review” by the Design Commission October 24th. The Design Commission only reviews projects upon appeal or through Type III permit procedures. Ben could have avoided this review but he agreed to it during the Council hearing on his zone change request. Exactly what he agreed to is in dispute. I believe he agreed to Design Commission review and approval but the Planning staffer assigned to the case, Hillary Adam, told the Commission he didn’t need to consult them further. We are seeking clarification. Decisions of the Commission can be appealed to City Council, otherwise it is Hillary’s call and Type II permit reviews don’t provide much protection to neighborhoods.
LUTC Meeting Agenda 2013-10-21
Land Use and Transportation Committee Meeting Agenda
October 21 2013 6:30 PM
Emanuel Hospital, Room 1035
LUTC Minutes 2013-09-16
Eliot Land Use and Transportation Committee
Minutes from September 16, 2013 Meeting
LUTC Meeting Agenda 2013-09-16
Land Use and Transportation Committee Meeting Agenda
September 16 2013 6:30 PM
Emanuel Hospital, Room 1035
Remembering Lee
Lee Perlman’s death is a personal loss as well as a blow to Eliot. I have known Lee as a friend and activist for around three decades, primarily through our mutual advocacy for Eliot’s preservation both as a residential community and historic asset and as a reminder of the legacy of Portland’s origins and the role of its black and immigrant communities. I joke that Lee’s commitment to historic Eliot was so extreme that his house retained the original paint and probably shingles. Although home maintenance was not a high priority for Lee, he was always willing to volunteer his time helping his neighbors and unreserved in his contributions to the Eliot Neighborhood.
LUTC Meeting Minutes 2013-07-15
Eliot Land Use and Transportation Committee
Meeting Minutes: July 15, 2013
Submitted by Chair, Mike Warwick
DRAFT – NOT YET APPROVED
Time for a Change?
Portland is revising its Comprehensive Plan. Comp Plans are a State requirement and need to be revised every 20 years. Eliot land use and zoning is currently covered by the Albina Community Plan and the Eliot Plan within it. Previous columns discussed revisions to the Central City Plan. All these plans were adopted over 20 years ago.
Keep or Lose?
Sunday, June 23’s Oregonian highlighted the intention of city planners and others to attack what they see as “gentrification” by targeting higher density and subsidized housing for low-income tenants. Eliot was in the bull’s eye of the map on the front page. What the article, the PSU teacher, and city staff don’t know about either gentrification, or its remedies, could fill multiple copies of the Eliot News.This is especially the case since the way the term is used is to highlight displacement of Portland’s black residents from the inner city neighborhoods they were restricted to live in by City policies up until the 1970’s.
LUTC Meeting Agenda 2013-07-15
Eliot Land Use Committee Agenda
July 15th at 6:30
Emanuel Room 1035
Eliot Neighborhood 