"On Wednesday, Sept 12th at 9:30 AM, RNRG and four other neighborhood groups are on the agenda"

The neighborhood groups getting together is the key. They need even more on board. City Hall and staff can easily ignore the voices of individual neighbors, but not an organized effort.

That's my neighbors...They KNOW unsustainable degradation when they see it.

I'm sure City Council will blow lots of wind about how generous bike parking in these projects will solve everything, and these are just "growing pains" on the road to becoming "the most sustainable city in the world".

Crapartments are the slums of the future, being constructed in some of Portland's finest close-in neighborhoods. It really is a shame.

I hope they overflow whatever little room is assigned, or even the main city hall council chamber.
Numbers of bodies matter! and the more the merrier. The council members do get a bit nervous when large numbers of people show up.
Be polite, be calm, and be present and accounted for.
Booing and groaning allowed!
Naturally this meeting is at 9:30 am, on a working day for most folks...so send your retired parent or an unemployed relative.
Good luck to the Richmond NA.

I see the neighborhood association is advocating for "responsible and sustainable" growth in the community. I'm curious what type of growth they consider to be "responsible" and "sustainable," and who they feel should make that call?

This is the same kind of language that spews out of the mouths of the planner types advocating for these kinds of development, which will turn into slums quickly. That's what happens when you base your viewpoint on loaded terms like "responsible" or "sustainable."

I wonder if the Richmond group would consider this development to be responsible and sustainable if it were in some other part of the city?

In order to even get a hearing before any city administration one must spew back all the garbage language.
If you call them a bunch of lying SOBs, which they are they will never let you speak on the record.
Been there done that...and yes, it totally sucks!

Snards -

"The neighborhood groups getting together is the key. They need even more on board. City Hall and staff can easily ignore the voices of individual neighbors, but not an organized effort."

Wanna' bet?

If so, I refer you to the raping of residential Southwest's plea for regional flexibal funds for repair of a small part of Barbur in August, 2011.

Instead of the council - other than Fritz - listening to the 23 NAs who showed up, the city instead got funding for the bike share farce.

Chief backstabber was Jelly Fish, who came up with a cockamamie alternate funding plan for Barbur, which died in November, 2011, when the PBOT budget went belly up.

Jelly's pet project, the Sullivan's Gulch bike trail, was supposed to be covered under the same alternate plan. But Jelly and 32 other council members (I'll let you guess Sam and Randy) found other funds for Sullivan's Gulch after the PBOT budget fell apart.

Just posted to the SnOregonian:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/09/an_apartment_building_with_no.html#incart_river_default

Chief backstabber was Jelly Fish,...

Fish has been a backstabber on the water issues as well, he thanks Leonard and provides that vote needed to give PWB millions and more millions, just some I know of - $135 million, $80 million, and last week another $57 million.
As if the vote weren't enough, there are times he accompanies his vote with a lecture, as though he is so superior and then insists that they get some respect after the backstabbing!

Just like at the public hearing on fluoride where invited deceptive testimony by the fluoride faction who spent countless hours lobbing behind closed doors (they used Oregon data rather than Portland data to make their case) took up two hours of the public’s time only to have Sammyboy demonstrate a total disrespect for those testifying against the ordinance. And where after waiting for 7 to 8 hours or more, the last 20 or so of people testifying (many people left without testifying) had their time reduced to only one minute in what Sammyboy called a lightening round where his demeanor was one of impatience and not listening as if he were a male dog in heat. Likewise, Fireman Randy aka The Hose Guy wasn’t listening either, even walking around impatiently waiting for the whole thing to be over.
Since both of the SamRand twins are totally unwilling to truly listen to anything they don’t want to hear; more than likely the testimony by these five people will fall on deaf ears. If there is a response, it is apt to come in the form of the car hater bicycle agenda. ..

Likewise, Fireman Randy aka The Hose Guy wasn’t listening either, even walking around impatiently waiting for the whole thing to be over.

We've been hosed alright, by Fireman Randy into debt and a downward spiral of our money down the drain.