Category: Projects

  • I-5 Delta Park Project Environmental Assessment Imminent

    This recently came in over the transom. We were happy to note that there is an option to get the report on CD to avoid consuming a tree to get the 400+ pages… I-5: DELTA PARK (VICTORY BOULEVARD TO LOMBARD SECTION) INTERSTATE 5 MULTNOMAH KEY NO. 12076 The Environmental Assessment for the I-5 Delta Park…

  • Business Journal Takes Up Burnside Couplet Issue

    The Business Journal is running an online poll about the Burnside couplet proposal. No secret how we voted.

  • Report on Burnside Town Hall

    Commissioner Adams listens to Joe Zehnderfrom the Bureau of Planning Last night Commissioner Sam Adams hosted a town hall meeting on the Burnside Transportation and Urban Design Plan. Perhaps the first thing of note was the meeting and Sam’s style of running it. I don’t think either of the two previous Commissioners of Transportation would…

  • Burnside Transportation and Urban Design Plan

    Over at commissionersam.com the Commish is blogging about controversy over the Burnside Couplet plan. I urge readers to attend the Town Hall mentioned to learn more about the project and put your views on record. As neighborhood transportation chair in Northwest Portland I had the opportunity to participate in two year-plus-long planning processes around the…

  • Sellwood Bridge: Can’t Get No Respect

    I recently attended a meeting of the Portland Freight Advisory Committee, where the Freight Master Plan was being reviewed. Once again, the Sellwood Bridge came up. The line of discussion: it’s not a freight project, so don’t list it as a project it in the master plan, and certainly don’t spend any funds targeted on…