Hold onto your wallet, the "stakeholders" are meeting
Portland's "planning" overlords are busy figuring out how to run everyone's lives for the next 30 years, and they've got hand-picked "stakeholder" groups meeting to provide a veneer of public participation over the pre-determined agenda. The west side group's roster is pretty amusing:
Blake Beanblossom - The Standard
Doreen Binder - Transitions Projects
Catherine Ciarlo - CH2M Hill
Hermann Colas, Jr. - Colas Construction
Ben Duncan - Multnomah County Health Equity Initiative
Brian Emerick - Portland Historic Landmarks Commission
Jessica Engelmann - Oregon Walks
Jason Franklin - Portland State University
Jeanne Galick - Willamette greenway advocate, South Portland resident
Jim Gardner - South Portland Neighborhood Association
Patricia Gardner - Pearl District Neighborhood Association
Greg Goodman - Downtown Development Group
Patrick Gortmaker - Old Town/Chinatown Community Association
Jodi Guetzloe-Parker - Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council
Sean Hubert - Central City Concern
Cori Jacobs - Downtown Retail Advocate
Michael Karnosh - Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde
Nolan Leinhart - ZGF Architects
Keith Liden - Portland Bicycle Advisory Committee
Jeff Martens - CPUsage
Marvin Mitchell - Julia West House; Downtown Neighborhood Association
Anne Naito-Campbell - Civic activist and property owner
John Petersen - Melvin Mark Capital Group
Dan Petrusich - Portland Business Alliance
Steve Pinger - Northwest District Association
Valeria Ramirez - Portland Opera
Veronica Rinard - Travel Portland
John Russell - Property owner and developer
Bob Sallinger - Portland Audubon Society
Katherine Schultz - GBD Architects and Planning and Sustainability Commission
Mary Valeant - Goose Hollow Foothills League
Karen Williams - Carroll Investments
Jane Yang - NW Natural
What a rogues' gallery. Goodman, Russell, Naito, Carroll, CH2M Hill, Mevin Mark, ZGF, the opera, Portland State Patronage Center....
And representing your average taxpayer? Er, that would be no one, Bob.
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The CH2M Hill representative Cathy Ciarlo was Transportation Director for Sam Adams, a member of the Portland Planning Commission and Executive Director for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Yup, the bicyclists always have their foot in the door to provide a crap load of bicycle babble lip service (double dipping here), but never open their wallets and always expect somebody else to pay for their rantings.
Nice list of movers, shakers, and useful idiots.
If there was ever any doubt about who runs Bartertown* this makes it perfectly clear it's not the folks who try to live and work and raise a family here.
*Auntie Entity would be in awe of these carpetbaggers.
The CH2M Hill representative Cathy Ciarlo was Transportation Director for Sam Adams, a member of the Portland Planning Commission and Executive Director for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Really? Is this an isolated instance of a public official who goes back and forth between a position of government power and being an employee of a corporate "stakeholder", or is it common practice?
Ciarlo was Adam's staff person for transportation issues, but not director of the bureau.
Tom Miller and Susan Keil were the PBOT directors during Adams' term
A vicious (expletive deleted)with a consistent anti car, high density view of everything. One of the prime staff folks who screwed residential SW on fixing killer parts of Barbur with Regional Flexible Funds and a big backer of the bike share program.
What's really, really remarkable about Portland is that the "occupy"/"99%"ers folks actually buy into this crap thinking it's for the good of the people, when it's really corporations divying up Portland for their own self-interests.
I've learned that light rail in Portland is nothing more than corporate welfare rather than actually serving people...and there is a small army of people who buy into that crap and think we should all move to where these corporations tell us where to live, commute when we are told to commute, and so on. And then they claim it's all in the name of "freedom".
Or all in the name of being eco and saving the planet. Let us not forget there are those who have to know better, but are the go alongs for various reasons.
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Comments (16)
The CH2M Hill representative Cathy Ciarlo was Transportation Director for Sam Adams, a member of the Portland Planning Commission and Executive Director for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Posted by jmh | March 5, 2013 2:50 PM
"run" or "ruin"?
Posted by reader | March 5, 2013 3:16 PM
Yup, the bicyclists always have their foot in the door to provide a crap load of bicycle babble lip service (double dipping here), but never open their wallets and always expect somebody else to pay for their rantings.
Posted by TR | March 5, 2013 3:26 PM
Karen Williams was formerly General Counsel for the PDC.
Posted by ld | March 5, 2013 3:38 PM
It's nice that the Grand Ronde get to direct the future of downtown Portland.
Posted by Jack Bog | March 5, 2013 3:49 PM
I intend to get out of here before they build a wall around the place. Forced behavior modification doesn't work when people are free to leave.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | March 5, 2013 4:09 PM
Nice list of movers, shakers, and useful idiots.
If there was ever any doubt about who runs Bartertown* this makes it perfectly clear it's not the folks who try to live and work and raise a family here.
*Auntie Entity would be in awe of these carpetbaggers.
Posted by Old Zeb | March 5, 2013 4:12 PM
The CH2M Hill representative Cathy Ciarlo was Transportation Director for Sam Adams, a member of the Portland Planning Commission and Executive Director for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Really? Is this an isolated instance of a public official who goes back and forth between a position of government power and being an employee of a corporate "stakeholder", or is it common practice?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | March 5, 2013 4:26 PM
Stakeholders! HA! More like a stake through the heart of what little is left of the city!
Posted by Portland Native | March 5, 2013 4:49 PM
That Grande Ronde rep is pretty far off the reservation.
Posted by Andrew | March 5, 2013 5:23 PM
Pjortland Native:Stakeholders! HA! More like a stake through the heart of what little is left of the city!
Yes.
My heart sank when I saw that list.
It isn't the first such list I have seen.
They have got this down to an art, these stakeholder meetings.
More later. . . cannot deal with the implications of this right now. . .
need some food for the soul.
Posted by clinamen | March 5, 2013 5:39 PM
Sorry for wrong spelling I meant -
Portland Native.
Take a deep breath.
What got to me is how true when you said what little is left of our city!
Posted by clinamen | March 5, 2013 5:47 PM
Grumpy & jmh -
Ciarlo was not PBOT Director.
Ciarlo was Adam's staff person for transportation issues, but not director of the bureau.
Tom Miller and Susan Keil were the PBOT directors during Adams' term
A vicious (expletive deleted)with a consistent anti car, high density view of everything. One of the prime staff folks who screwed residential SW on fixing killer parts of Barbur with Regional Flexible Funds and a big backer of the bike share program.
She and Keith Leiden make a perfect couple.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | March 5, 2013 7:16 PM
I nominate Jim Karlock and Dave Lister for this group.
Posted by umpire | March 5, 2013 8:52 PM
What's really, really remarkable about Portland is that the "occupy"/"99%"ers folks actually buy into this crap thinking it's for the good of the people, when it's really corporations divying up Portland for their own self-interests.
I've learned that light rail in Portland is nothing more than corporate welfare rather than actually serving people...and there is a small army of people who buy into that crap and think we should all move to where these corporations tell us where to live, commute when we are told to commute, and so on. And then they claim it's all in the name of "freedom".
Posted by Erik H. | March 6, 2013 6:20 PM
Or all in the name of being eco and saving the planet. Let us not forget there are those who have to know better, but are the go alongs for various reasons.
Posted by clinamen | March 6, 2013 10:19 PM