General & current topics covered at the land use meeting:

1. Ocobock Mansion/property (5126 NE Rodney): KNA filed demolition delay request with the city; city has accepted the paperwork and will schedule a hearing soon to adjudge the request itself.

2. 7^th/9^th Greenway, passing through King and heading south: competing citizen proposals on which street will hold greenway. 7^th has heavy traffic, heavier than it’s designed for? I-84 is slated for a pedestrian bridge, to link up to a future greenway. City Council decided not to decide on which street will host the greenway, for now. Some folks have expressed strong concerns that a 7^th Ave greenway would push traffic onto 8^th/9^th Avenues. KNA currently supports a 7^th Avenue greenway.

3. Community Design standards: something the neighborhood might explore in the future?

4. Partners in transportation design – who might partner with KNA?

5. Jes Larson with Portland For Everyone (and formerly an organizer of the North/Northeast Neighbors for Housing Affordability, now dormant) will be coming to July’s board meeting to discuss the autumn ballot measure to create revenue for affordable housing.

6. Vic Remmers project at MLK/Mason in design review. 6 stories, 26 parking spots, ground-floor commercial removed from earlier draft proposal. Should KNA ask for retail to be restored, during current comment period? Or live/work spaces? Architectural considerations look ok.

7. Residential infill proposals being circulated – public meetings being held. (Will NECN hold educational session on infill zoning?) Evan attended most recent NECN land use & transportation committee (LUTC) meeting. Three proposals for infill being circulated. Changes from current zoning: allowing duplexes/triplexes near commercial corridors; narrower lots. Changes also to fronts of homes (garages), parking minimums. Should KNA have someone from the group advocating for more expansive changes come to a monthly NA meeting?

Visioning: ideas KNA might pursue in the future:

• “King to the Max” – adding bike lines to N. Mississippi/Albina on Skidmore Street.
• A streetcar on MLK? City staffer Dan Bauer has been working on this. Is there a need for an income-based streetcar fare? (Trimet – at OPAL’s urging – is beginning to look at income-based transit fares.)
• What’s happening the Interstate Urban Renewal Area? How can KNA track? (Also: the North/Northeast Housing Strategy public committee)
•  Vanport lot – still concerns about it, from ownership to naming to single-story buildings to lack of housing to subsidy provided to owners by the city. How to publicize our concerns?
• Parking permits – will these come to N/NE? (Currently in use in NW Portland, near Civic Stadium [not sure, off-hand, what the current name is].)

In attendance: Evan Heidtmann, Andrew Neerman (KNA land use chair), Alan Silver, Daniel Kempler