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Can Wal-Mart Pave its Way to Acceptance?
Friday’s Oregonian reports that Beaverton has outlined a list of road improvements Wal-Mart would need to fund to meet standards for its proposed Cedar Hills location. The list includes some 16 off-site improvements. Wal-Mart seems happy with the list even though no one has added up the price tag yet. Some of the items include:…
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Transportation and … health care?
CJ Grimes works as a community health care organizer with Service Employees International Union, Local 49 on the Make Health Care Work Campaign (MHCW). MHCW is a coalition of health care advocates, front line caregivers and consumers working to give the community a guaranteed voice in regional health care planning. You can contact CJ directly…
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Not a Satellite
At MPAC last night we had a very interesting presentation. The mayors of Sandy and Estacada presented about what’s happening, particularly with growth, in their cities. At Metro we use to talk about cities like these (Canby, Newberg and St. Helens are other examples) as “satellite cities” since they were outside Metro’s UGB. Apparently this…
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How Will Portland Implement Measure 37
When he’s not busy working on traffic safety at the Portland Office of Transportation, contributor Greg Raisman also chairs City Club’s Growth Management and Environment Committee, where they’re going to explore some of the local impacts of Measure 37, which is bound to touch on transportation. Please join the City Club of Portland’s Growth Management…
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Height Limits: Another Zoning Decision that Causes Sprawl
In Friday’s Oregonian is a story of another suburban city whose residents are fighting code changes to allow higher buildings in its downtown. Troutdale, like Lake Oswego, Wilsonville and other suburbs, have very low height limits for buildings even in their “downtowns.” Height limits are intended to maintain a “village” feel, even if these “villages”…