Trends in Land Use – Road Diets
The latest diet craze to take Portland by storm: The Road Diet. Learn how this approach to transportation planning is helping the City balance the competing needs of cyclists, drivers, pedestrians, and businesses.
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Trends In Land Use – August Edition
As the economy improves and the housing market rebounds, neighborhoods see an uptick in demolitions, remodels, and new construction.
Volunteer Spotlight: Jacob Sherman
The newly elected Chair is already shaking things up with an epic kickball game, pitting the two sides of the neighborhood against one another in what is bound to be the showdown of the year.
The Battle for Mt. Tabor
As a reaction to the decision to close the reservoirs, hundreds of Portland residents gathered to ‘Occupy Mount Tabor’ on July 12 in protest.
WHEN DINOSAURS COME TO SE PORTLAND
If you still have the Gamera theme song stuck in your head, then you won’t want to miss, “Planet of Dinosaurs” on August 17th at Sewallcrest Park. Filmusik, being the mad geniuses they are, will be turning a campy 1970s space-meets-dino flick into the best night of your summer!
Sharing the Green Beauty of Foster-Powell
Foster-Powell has huge success with an event celebrating FoPo gardens and their keepers.
SNAC – Where Need Meets Opportunity
Sellwood-Moreland’s Stewardship of Natural Amenities Committee may have humble roots but it has grown into a power engine of change for the community.
Sharing Plants & Growing Community
The Woodstock Neighborhood Association held its first plant sale in 1989 in an effort to raise funds to prune the recently planted street trees along Woodstock Boulevard. Twenty-four years later, the neighborhood continues to host this locally treasured event and amazingly, some of the original organizers are still involved today!
Hawthorne Area Civic Ecology
Can a partnership between business and neighborhood associations create an EcoDistrict on a shoestring budget and without city oversight? A group of like-minded activists in Southeast Portland seem to think so and with notable success in their first year, they just might be right!
North Tabor Mural Project
In recognition of National Volunteer Appreciation Week, we are highlighting the work of Christin Huja and Gail Morris with the North Tabor Mural Project. This project is one component of the neighborhood association’s Neighborhood Identity Project to build community and a sense of place.