Category Archives: livability

CRC Forum at Concordia University

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Crossing the Columbia: How should we spend $3 to $10 billion? Does the I-5 Bridge really need to be replaced? Will the Columbia River Crossing improve the region’s livability? How much will it really cost and how else could that money be used? Make your voice heard to elected officials! Please join neighbors in voicing questions & comments about the Columbia River Crossing directly to elected officials!

What: Public Forum on the Columbia River Crossing (CRC). Co-sponsored by the Northeast
Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN) & the Concordia Neighborhood Association
When: Monday, March 7th, 7pm to 9pm
Where: Concordia University’s Luther Hall -Room 121 (NE Holman btwn NE 27th & NE 29th)

Agenda:

1. Mara Gross of Coalition for Livable Future & Joe Cortright of Impresa & CEOs for Cities
2. Statements from Neighborhood Associations & Neighbors
3. Feedback from elected officials including: Tom Hughes, Rex Burkholder,
Tina Kotek, Lew Frederick and Chip Shields.

More info: Contact the NECN at 503.823.4570 or visit www.NECoalition.org

Presentation on Urban Coyotes

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Coyotes in the City?!
A Presentation on Urban Coyotes by:
Bob Sallinger, Conservation Director Audubon Society of Portland,
Barbara Brower and students, Geography, Portland State University
March 3rd @ 6:30 PM
Grant High School
2245 NE 36th Avenue

Coyotes have established themselves on urban landscapes across North America. Today they can be found in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland and yes, Portland! Although coyotes have lived in NE Portland for years, they have suddenly become much more visible in recent months.

Come learn about urban coyotes, the role they play in our urban ecosystem and how we can reduce and prevent conflicts. The presentation will focus specifically on the increased coyote sightings in Alameda, Grant, Irvington and Beaumont-Wilshire Neighborhoods.

Bob Sallinger has been tracking urban coyote issues across the Metropolitan Landscape for nearly two decades. PSU and Audubon are launching a new Urban Coyote Project which will focus on increasing awareness and understanding about urban coyotes and developing best management practices to prevent and reduce conflicts.

Fix-It Fair This Weekend at Jefferson

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Join your neighbors and talk to the experts about how to spend less and stay healthy!
The Fix-It Fairs are free events designed to save you money and connect you to resources. Fix-It Fairs occur seasonally, on three Saturday mornings during the winter (between November and February) from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at various locations around Portland.

Click here for the flyer

Saturday, February 26, 2011
Jefferson High School
5210 N Kerby Avenue
8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Note: Entrance is on Kerby Avenue

What you’ll find at a Fix-It Fair
Ongoing exhibits & hourly workshops on such topics as:

Water and energy savings
Safe and healthy home
Food and nutrition
Neighborhood and community resources
Recycling
Weatherizing your home
Gardening and growing your own food
Yard care and composting
Transportation
Plus

Free lead blood testing
Free giveaways
Hourly door prizes
Free professional childcare
Free lunch
Free minor bike tune-ups and flat tire repair for students and families
For more information or to receive email notification for future Fairs: 503-823-4309, fixitfair@portlandoregon.gov.

NECN Safety and Liveability Team to Meet Feb 21st.

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From NECN:

The Northeast Coalition of Neighborhood’s Safety and Livabilty Team (SALT) meets Monday, February 21st at 6:30pm at the NECN Office.
SALT’s inaugural roundtable, Sharing the Road: People on the Move, held on January 31st, proved to be a success with 30 neighborhood leaders and transportation activists listening to presentations from the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Willamette Pedestrian Coalition, and the City of Portland’s Bureau of Transportation. Watch the SALT webpage to see more committee activities.

SALT webpage-click here

The full calendar of NECN events is here!

Traffic Safety Initiative to Target King

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Vision Zero Oregon has chosen King as one of the neighborhoods they want to work with this spring to educate people on how to pursue roadway safety strategies.

From their website, www.visionzerooregon.org

We are a group of five Portland State University Masters of Urban and Regional Planning students working with the Bicycle Transportation Alliance to develop new community-based strategies to improve roadway safety. Through June 2011 we’ll be assembling a toolkit of tactics and working with a specific neighborhoods to build up the capacity of people in that community to pursue roadway safety on their own. The project is really about finding ways to get all the relevant groups together to work towards making streets safer for users of all types of transportation, from people who drive to people who walk to people who roll. Whether you’re a traffic engineer, a safety advocate, a neighborhood resident, or just a user of Portland’s streets, we want you involved.

We are planning a walking tour and an existing conditions survey to hear from King residents their experiences and thoughts about roadway safety in their neighborhood. I hope that anyone from the neighborhood association (and the neighborhood!) can attend and help get the word out.