N/NE Neighborhoods Portland Plan Retreat

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Saturday, April 3rd
10:00 – 1:00 pm
NE Coalition Office
Light refreshments provided
A special interactive workshop for all people who live and work in the NE Coalition Neighborhoods!

Why come to this workshop?
* To learn where we are now, based on the Portland Plan facts and survey results
* To discuss where we want to go – the Portland Plan will affect our day-to-day lives in the next 25 years.
* To help shape what our streets, business districts and NE Coalition neighborhoods will look like in the future
* To look more closely at arts and culture, economic development, food systems, historic resources, housing, human health and safety, public schools, urban form and more in the NE Coalition neighborhoods

RSVP to Lauren McCartney at 503-823-4135 and lauren@necoalition.org

Emerson Working Group Meeting

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Tuesday, March 16th 4:00 – 6:00 pm
NE Coalition Office, 4815 NE 7th Ave
Groundwork Portland invites you to help come up with a community outreach and engagement strategy for Emerson Street Garden, a property on NE 8th and Emerson St. that has been sitting, vacant, with lead and other toxins in the soil since the 1950s.
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Final Urban Renewal Series Event March 11th

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Summary of Community Recommendations
Thursday, March 11th 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Billy Webb Elks Lodge, 6 North Tillamook St.
Snacks and drinks will be provided

Over 150 people attended the first three URA community Forums, sharing their thoughts and ideas for the future of inner North/Northeast Urban Renewal Areas. Please join us for this final forum. Come hear the draft priorities and recommendations that have been generated in the series. Provide feedback on these recommendations and help strategize future action steps for achieving community benefits from the Urban Renewal Areas. Community feedback generated during the series will be presented to the Portland Development Commission at the March 24th meeting (Billy Webb Elks Lodge, 6:30 – 8:30 pm) of the PDC’s North/Northeast Economic Development Initiative Community Advisory Committee.
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RSVPs are encouraged. Contact Shoshana Cohen at forums@necoalition.org or 503-823-4575 ext. 5.

Urban Renewal Area Online Survey!
Please take our short survey and share with us your neighborhood development priorities and knowlege about inner North/Northeast Urban Renewal Areas.
To take the survey, click here.

The responses will be compiled by PSU students and NECN staff and then made available to the Portland Development Commission, the North/Northeast Economic Development Initiative Community Advisory Committee and other city officials. All responses will be kept confidential and are in no way traceable to individual respondents.

Art on Alberta Fundraiser

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Art on Alberta announces a fundraiser for our 11th annual 2010 Art Hop murals project on Friday, March 12, at Joe’s Crab Shack, 11am to 10pm. 10% of the proceeds from this all day event will go to paint and anti-graffiti materials for murals which will be painted by area underserved youth and the attending public at Art on Alberta 2010 Art Hop, Saturday, May 15, 2010.

Joe’s Crab Shack is located at 101 SE Columbia Way in Vancouver. Evening reservations are recommended. Their phone number is 360-693-9211. For more information about Art on Alberta and Art Hop, please visit: www.artonalberta.org.

Fundraiser Flyer

Beech/MLK Land Use Notice

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City of Portland Public Notice
Final Plat Application
The preliminary plan for a 2 lot land division was approved by the City of Portland on 06/03/2009, for the site at the address listed below. A survey showing the final arrangement of lots has now been submitted to the City for review. The purpose of this review is to determine if the final survey (the proposed plat) is consistent with the approved preliminary plan, and meets Chapter 33.663 of the Zoning Code. The proposed plat has been posted at the following City website for public viewing: http://www.portlandonline.com/bds/index.cfm?c=35625 Information about the City’s review of this proposed plat, including copies of the approved preliminary plan, are also available for public viewing at the Bureau of Development Services: 1900 SW 4th Avenue, Suite 5000, Portland, OR 97201.

You are invited to share your questions or comments with the assigned City Planner, Sue Donaldson,
503-823-7618 (TDD: 503-823-6868),
FAX: 503-823-5630.