If you’re interested in housing, development, construction, and affordability, you might be excited to join Portland for Everyone’s happy-hour presentation and social hour on Thursday, July 7.

Portland’s affordable housing challenges are increasingly evident, and we must act now.

Due to growing demand, limited supply, and outdated zoning codes, many Portland residents are unable to find affordable housing options that serve their needs – and for many more, this has been the case for far too long. With over a thousand people a month moving to Portland, a trend that may result in the addition of 260,000 residents by 2035, our city is at a crossroads.

David and Madeline will give an overview of upcoming land use and policy decisions that the City of Portland is tasked with making over the next eighteen months, and implications for housing supply and affordability. Currently, the discussion is focused on the Residential Infill Project, tasked with advising the City on what types, sizes, and amounts of housing options Portland will allow in its residential zones. David and Madeline will give an overview of key strategies including “Missing Middle” housing types, reducing allowed home sizes, and other issues currently being discussed in relation to infill housing. They will then share some ways to get involved in the Portland for Everyone campaign as an individual or organization.

Doors: 5:30pm

Presentation: 6:00pm

Discussion, Q&A, & social hour: until 7:30pm

Please register as soon as you can. There are only have 45 spots, and they are going quickly. Don’t worry – if you miss this one, we will be hosting a series of presentations over the duration of the summer, into the fall. You can also invite P4E to come and speak with your neighborhood, community, or workplace.

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Join Portland’s Surfrider Foundation volunteers on the 1st Tuesday of every month for the Northside Green Streets off Alberta! Green Streets is a partnership between the City of Portland and the local Surfrider chapter that aims to keep our streets clean and our local bioswales healthy. Bioswales are those cool mini wetland garden thingies cut into the edge of many streets in town. Our Green Street Stewards, volunteer to clean up litter out of these swales and along the side of the road. This keeps litter out of our local watersheds, and since everything flows downstream, keeps litter out of our oceans. It’s a great way to act locally, and make impacts globally! The Surfrider Crew leader will make this volunteer event a fun night to remember, with some cool tunes and sweet treats. Come join us as we work together to keep our waterways clean.

When
Tuesday, 07/05/2016
6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Where
NE Alberta
4804 NE 27th St.
Portland

Register online here: http://solveoregon.org/get-involved/events/surfrider-foundation-july-green-streets-clean-alberta

The Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods hosted a criminal justice forum on Monday. Here are notes taken by one attendee, Katy Wolf of Boise:

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The next meeting of the KNA land use committee has been scheduled. We will be meeting 7:30pm-9ish Tues 6/28 at 4407 NE 7th Ave (between Skidmore/Prescott).

Neighbors looking to save the historic “Ocobock House” at 5128 NE Rodney Avenue have filed a demolition delay request. At their request, King NA’s board signed the application, allowing neighbors to forgo having to pay $1368 in filing fees. If approved by the city, the application would delay demolition of the building for sixty days, giving neighbors time to create a plan to save the structure and negotiate with the developer, Vic Remmers, who recently purchased the site.

For more information on the Ocobock House and the demolition delay application, please read these documents:

• Demolition Delay Request for 5128 NE Rodney Ave, 6/17/2016
• Residential Demolition Permit Appeal Application for 5128 NE Rodney, 6/17/2016