Does the OLCC consider community input when granting liquor sales licenses?

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KNA member Rick Sills has been attending meetings of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, as it weighs liquor license, in Rick’s role as King neighborhood representative to the Safety and Livability Team at the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.

In response to OLCC’s granting of a liquor license to a convenience mart in close proximity to the Beverly Cleary School, Rick writes:

Beverly Cleary School (BCS) is a second-grade through eighth-grade public grade school located in the Grant Park neighborhood (GPN) at 1915 N.E. 33rd Ave.; about seven hundred children currently attend BCS.

Recently some of our GPN neighbors have documented with photographs longstanding alcohol-related problems within 500 feet of Beverly Cleary School.

On the morning of October 25, 2012, two GPN neighbors went to an OLCC hearing and presented these (and other) pictures and testimony to the five-member OLCC Board of Commissioners in opposition to the OLCC license application denominated “Jacksons #562”.  Jacksons #562 involved an application for an OLCC license for a proposed “Jackson’s Market convenience store” to be located at the northwest corner of the intersection of N.E. 33rd and N.E. Broadway, within 500 feet of Beverly Cleary School. Continue reading →

King Thanksgiving Harvest Market November 18th

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From Portland Farmers Market:

Join us at the King Market location on November 18, where vendors will reunite for a special Thanksgiving Harvest Market.

Come rain or shine to fill your market basket with seasonal delights like winter squash, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, cranberries, wild mushrooms, fresh eggs, apples, pears, artisan cheeses, baked goods, pickles and preserves, pastured meats, Oregon wines and floral arrangements from LOCAL FARMERS & FOOD ARTISANS, including:

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Citywide Land Use Group Seeks Input on Apartment Parking Issue

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From the Citywide Land Use Group:

Neighborhood Apartment Parking Survey

Dear Neighbors and Community Leaders:

Our Portland community is experiencing unprecedented growth in the development of apartment buildings that include little or no off-street parking. Although a number of these types of older apartments remain along the former trolley lines, the approval of 28 new apartment buildings over the past 18 months has alarmed many of us.

Due to the recent community concern regarding the approval of so many apartment buildings with no parking, the City’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) is conducting a study of residents and neighbors of eight of these older buildings. As a group of volunteers that participate in the Citywide Land Use Group, we felt it was important to conduct our own, complementary survey. This survey is the result of our Apartment Parking Task Force and Editing Team’s work on the no-parking issue over the past four months. It is our attempt to clarify your concerns and needs.  We want to give neighborhoods the opportunity to provide constructive criticism to the City on this issue.
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November KNA Board Meeting Agenda

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King Neighborhood Association

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 6:30pm

Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods

4815 NE 7th Avenue, Portland, OR

 

Draft Agenda

6:30 Introductions, approval of agenda and minutes

6:40 New development @ Failing and Garfield – Garner Moody

7:00 Communications Policy – Discussion of  procedure for outbound communications on behalf of the KNA (OR Mr. Polk, owner of MLK Carwash & safety near Simpson/MLK)

7:15 Mural at the Union Market

7:30 North Williams Traffic Safety

8:00 Adjourn

Phaedra’s Love, by Sarah Kane, at Portland Playhouse, this weekend & next.

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Phaedra’s Love
By Sarah Kane
Directed by Jennifer Rowe

Theseus, the man of the people, is at war. The people are suffering in poverty. The poverty is turning the people towards violence. The violence has corrupted the city. The city is crumbling, thousands of jobs are gone – but none of this matters because it’s a royal’s birthday!
A concentrated, contemporary late-night Grecian tale of Phaedra’s doomed love for her stepson, Hippolytus.

November 9, 10, 16, 17
Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott
$10 @ 10pm
Cash/Check at the door

For inquiries please contact quickdirtyproject@gmail.com