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Burnside Break-up
A lot of hearts were broken yesterday afternoon as Commissioner Sam Adams met with the Burnside Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC). Many SAC members have been at this process for four years. The Commissioner announced that next week he will be presenting a resolution to Council splitting the project in two and advancing the East side…
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Update on Clean Cars
Over at Blue Oregon, there’s a thread on advocacy efforts around the proposed new auto emission standards. Head over there to read more and comment.
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Transit Oriented Development Webcast TODAY
Sorry for the late notice. This first session in this webcast series, titled “TOD: Connecting Neighbors to Neighborhoods and Communities to Regions”, is today at 11am Pacific. Get the details at: http://www.lisc.org/content/calendar/detail/1233?AddInterest=1025
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Zoning and Sprawl – Cause and Effect?
Regular readers know by now that I am an aficionado of the Smart City radio program, and listen religiously to the podcast. As a sidebar, the host, Carol Coletta, will be in Portland on March 15th, as the next speaker in Metro’s regional economic development series. I haven’t seen the official notice yet, but I…
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Would You Like Fries with That?
Yesterday’s Willamette Week reports that restaurants that had been paying someone to haul away their used oil are now donating it for biofuel processing. Will it be long before biofuel processors are paying for this oil? What I want to know is where can I drop off my bacon drippings from home? :-)