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

The Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) is planning sewer replacements in our neighborhood, and some of that work is planned for night hours in 2017. Proposed night work would take place for up to six weeks on NE Killingsworth Street at NE MLK Boulevard, up to six weeks on NE Alberta Street near N Vancouver Avenue, and one week on NE Rosa Parks Way between NE Garfield Avenue and NE MLK Boulevard.

The proposed work requires a noise variance; Environmental Services will present the noise variance application  to the Noise Board on Wednesday, July 13. Your comments regarding the proposed night work are valuable and can be submitted by letter or email to:

Portland Noise Office
1221 SW 4th Avenue
Portland, OR 97204
noise@portlandoregon.gov (noise comments only, please!)

When contacting the Noise Office, please reference the Woodlawn-King Alleys Sewer Project or the Woodlawn-King Streets Sewer Project.

For more information on the sewer project, refer to the Woodlawn-King Sewer Project on the BES website. You may also send an email to Rhetta Drennan with “Woodlawn-King” in the subject line to receive project updates by email.

If you have questions or concerns that aren’t answered by BES, please contact the King Neighborhood Association: info@kingneighborhood.org.