Big vote today on the Dignity Village deal. Jeez, there's a lot of heat on both sides of that thing. People from Transportation want their compost pile back, while Erik and his new best buddy Randy want to leave the homeless right where they are, camped out under the PDX flight paths. Sleep tight, folks.
I've gotta hand it to Erik, he's a creative little bugger. Now we'll call it a "campground," and the shacks can be called "yurts." Yeah, right, it's a frickin' KOA. Half the time I think Erik's pulling my yurt. The other day he even had the Oregonian architecture critic writing about Dignity. What, the clean lines of the saran wrap windows?
The big money downtown is saying leave them there. With all the TV ads I've got to buy pretty soon, I sure don't want to turn the downtown crowd off.
We've been going around on this for years now. I remember the last time the Dignities tried to set up a camp. It was down by RiverPlace. They wanted to pitch their tents about 100 yards from some of Homer Williams's developments. Oh man, did we have a good laugh at that one. We even let them spend a couple of nights there before we chased them off.
Well, I better get dressed and shaved for the meeting. While I'm at it, I probably ought to practice my "hard vote" look in front of the mirror. You know, the one where I squint and scowl and look really pained? It's my DeNiro. Works every time.
Posted by Jim at February 26, 2004 06:08 AM