Attached is the agenda for this month’s meeting. Matt Olguin, Director of Shelter Services will be there to discuss the homeless shelter that is opening at the Walnut Park County building. The meeting will start at 6:30pm at NECN, 4815 NE 7th Ave.

2018 (11-14) KNA Agenda

Due to night construction at the King Facility, KNA will hold its meeting at Old Town Brewing (OTB) at 6:30pm on Wednesday, October 10th. OTB is located at 5201 NE MLK Jr. Blvd.

Camilo Marquez from will present from the Portland Clean Energy Initiative and we will call for nominations to our vacant board positions. Hope to see you there!

Hello and welcome to YOUR King Neighborhood Association!

Being elected chair of KNA has given me access to information not readily accessible to most King neighbors and residents – and I see one of my primary responsibilities is to share this information with you. That’s why I post Land Use Notices on the King website as soon as I receive them – and it’s why I’m glad to have been appointed KNA’s representative to the Land Use Committee of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.

Some of the information I receive strikes me as being important enough to draw special attention to it.

For instance, the Bureau of Development Services recently approved a short-term rental facility on NE 14^th Place. A five-bedroom home is essentially being converted into a small hotel, complete with a resident manager — right smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

Now this isn’t a case of a resident owner trying to help make ends meet renting out a room or two – this house is owned by a resident of another city, and the primary purpose of the structure will now exclude residents of our neighborhood. The out-of-town owner also wants to build an ADU to allow for additional short-term rental space.

This approval by BDS raises troubling questions. How much housing stock are we willing to sacrifice here in King so that tourists can displace residents? What is the purpose of increased density if – as in this case – it’s not going to be used to house Portland residents? And does the city undermine its claims to be addressing the housing crisis given that the city is permitting the loss of residential housing to profit out-of-town investors?

On a related matter…

At the most recent NECN Land Use Committee meeting, a representative of Multnomah County’s Joint Office of Homeless Services talked about a new 12-month, $100,000 program to facilitate using church parking lots for homeless people living in their cars. The target for the program is to get 3 to 5 churches to provide 3 parking spaces each for the homeless. That’s $100,000 for 9 to 15 parking spaces – or up to $11,000 per parking space.

I haven’t seen this new program covered in the local media, and I’d probably have never heard of it if I wasn’t at the NECN Land Use Committee meeting, so I figure you may not have heard of it, either.

Finally, it seems to me that in addition to passing along information provided to us from local government, King Neighborhood Association can facilitate dialogue about what those government entities are doing, and to provide a conduit for feedback from the neighborhood to those institutions. So come be a part of the dialogue and provide feedback. Our next membership meeting is Wednesday, August 8, at 4815 NE 7^th Avenue. We’ll be deciding whether to endorse the 7^th or 9^th Avenue route for the Lloyd-to-Woodlawn Greenway Project – and we want your participation!

Margaret O’Hartigan, Chair, King Neighborhood Association

KNA Board Meeting July 11, 2018

KNA Board of Directors is holding a regular Board meeting on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, from 6:30-8 p.m. at the NECN office, 4815 NE 7th Ave., Portland. All are welcome.

UPDATED AGENDA

OLD BUSINESS: Reading/approval of May 31 and 6/13 meeting minutes; fiscal sponsorship renewal submitted to NECN; report on Observer ad; review of letter regarding public roadway encroachment introduced at June board meeting tech support report.

New business: Nick Falco of PBOT on PDX Greenways (7:00 time certain); appointment of Jennifer’s proxy for July NECN board meetingp; NECN board report from Jennifer; appointment of NECN rep to Land Use & Transportation Committee; proposed new Oregon DEQ clean air regulations; Metro transit plan and effect on KNA/Killingsworth; BDS approval June 18 of 5-bdrm home to short-term rental facility.

Announcements: Special KNA board meeting at Vanport Square Studio on evening of July 18, 5229 NE MLK Blvd, Ste. 102 (entrance on west side of bldg.) KNA members, neighbors, residents, general public welcome to attend!

Public comments.

Join us Wednesday 5/9 for a KNA general meeting. We have a lot going on! We’ll be voting on changes to our bylaws, including changing our western neighborhood boundary (which would NOT impact Portland Public Schools’ boundaries in any way). We’ll also be holding elections for new board members. Come join our board! NOTE: Attending a meeting is not necessary to communicate with us – you can reach us at info@kingneighborhood.org, and we’ll respond to you quickly.

Agenda (“time permitting items in italics”):

1. 1. 1. Intros & check-ins (5-10 min)
      2. Approving previous minutes (10 min)
      3. Bylaws and boundary change vote (10 min)
      4. Board elections (30 min)
      5. Mural presentation (10 min)
      6. Finances report (10 min)
      7. Member open floor (10 min)
      8. Wrap-up, feedback, announcements (5-10 min)

Join us at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, at the NECN office . . . or email us to find out how you can participate in other ways!