Scratch one barber shop, one hardware store and who knows what all else. The planners march on! But we shouldn't worry. There will be plenty of minimum wage jobs making sandwhiches and pouring coffee on Division when they are done.

Jack, how dare you even mention that the city develop on such hallowed ground. The link you provide shows one of Portland's staples, a small food shack selling dollar tacos. We cannot develop that!

"Anyway, Division's about to get bioswales, bikey stuff, the whole worthless Sam Rand works."

After all, Division is one **entire** block from the SE Clinton bike route.

Surely you don't expect cyclists to detour a block?

Hey Ron, don't diss Aprisa, that place is solid! And their tacos definitely cost more than a dollar.

I looked at the plans, the bikeway is still on Clinton. As far as I can tell, the only bikey thing they're adding is parking.

I'm surprised they didn't rip out parking on both sides to add a cycle path all the way to Gresham.

You'd think that the stretch west on Division would be a good place to develop, but someone's probably holding out for a price that Some Guy said the land was worth. The trick with planting lots of crapartments is getting the land cheap.

It would be nice if they repaved Division. That's a street that needs some help.

Your original posting reads:
"The city is getting ready to gussy up Division Street between 11th Avenue and Chavez Boulevard."

And then your wrote:
"If you wanted to help Division, the stretch west of 11th is where the assistance is really needed."

Forgive me, but the region "between 11th Avenu8e and Chavez Boulevard" is west of 11th.

Alas, please forgive the typos in my adjacent posting (typing-challenged, embarrassed bear)...

oregbear, I have an extra compass I’ll give you,and I’m embarrassed for you too!

In 20 years or so with continued Portlandia progress the infrastructure there should very much resemble downtown Mumbai.

"The project, a partnership between Environmental Services and the Portland Bureau of Transportation"

That means its all on our sewer bill. Charge it baby! It should be a long project. Guess I won't be going down there for a couple of years.

Who better to know how to keep their planning jobs than those who plan!
Redoing one area after another, working on code changes, focusing on the 2040 plan, and that comprehensive plan coming, has anyone been going to those meetings to find out what next they have in store for us?

Hey, if we don't tear down the last Victorians, where will the sex offenders
(from the previous article) live?

Is there any chance that the Mayor will fire Mr. Zehnder? Zehnder was ordered to fix the problem with no-parking apartments, and his "solution" is so weak that it borders on insubordination.

Is this Mr. Zehnder a Portlander with Portland values, or was he educated elsewhere (or possibly PSU) and was brought into the city planning bureau to move along the Metro agenda?

I would think some of the planners would have to know better that these plans are not good, but the direction comes from above. Then there are the ones who feverishly believe in this extreme density at any cost!

"the project includes construction of 55 green street facilities and planting 124 new street trees."

Gee, kinda makes up for the trees they took out for the trolley by PSU on SW Montgomery (I think.)

Still doesn't make up for the money they take from schools via the URDs.

Oh yes those many street trees so that the smart growth program can continue to slaughter our firs and huge trees for infill development.

Again, another reason our food costs are expensive, all that farmland that used to grow food outside the UGB is instead growing the urban street trees for our "new smart growth" city!

Do the pushers of these plans and behavioral changes really believe they are saving the planet?

I was rather amused by their suggestion that they can increase reliability of the sewer by removing 32 manholes.

"Do the pushers of these plans and behavioral changes really believe they are saving the planet?"

They don't need to. The gullible sheeple of Portland believe it.

"Is this Mr. Zehnder a Portlander with Portland values, or was he educated elsewhere (or possibly PSU) and was brought into the city planning bureau to move along the Metro agenda?"

Joe Zehnder
Chief Planner at City of Portland Oregon
Portland, Oregon AreaArchitecture & Planning
Current
City of Portland Oregon - Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Previous
City of Chicago, City of Montpelier, Vermont, City of Baltimore, Maryland - Planning Department
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

OPB, November:

City planner, Joe Zehnder, says a study released this week finds that 72 percent of residents in a sample of eight such buildings owned cars. Zehnder says that’s lower than the citywide average of 88 percent.

Zehnder says in general, smaller buildings without parking don’t create shortages on neighborhood streets.

“Most of those -- I think the average size is around 40 units, it seems to be working, " says Zehnder. "But there may be something that happens when a building gets very large in a neighborhood setting, and doesn’t provide parking.”

"But there may be something that happens when a building gets very large in a neighborhood setting, and doesn’t provide parking.”

Gee Joe, there "may be something"? Can two cars occupy the same space at the same time?

What intellectual dishonesty. A drop from 88 to 72 means that close-in renters have lots of cars.

No matter what the facts are, the answer is always the same: tear down a Victorian.