One last question
It's time to wrap up our participation in Mayor Tom "Oktoberfest" Potter's "vision quest" survey. We've run the first three questions from the questionnaire here, here, and here. The last of the four is a followup on No. 3, and so we'll start here by refreshing your recollection about that one. It asked, "Imagine Portland 20 years in the future and all your hopes for the city have been realized. What is different? How is our city a better place?"
And so now here's No. 4 and Final. In addition to weighing in on the question posed, feel free to comment on this strategic planning process generally:
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Comments (6)
Extend the streetcar AND the OHSU tram to Lake Oswego?
Posted by Brandon | September 26, 2006 2:37 PM
Tram and streetcar to jansen beach and Vancouver?
Posted by Anthony | September 26, 2006 2:45 PM
Build a good jazz club and throw in a few more Whole Foods in the mix. In addition, don't fix any potholes and let more criminals out downtown so we can keep that "Portland" feeling going.
Oh yeah, let's spend every dime re-building the downtown mall even though half the stores are shuttered because it just makes sense. Let's outlaw yards and let kids play in hardpan parks so they have that "Portland" attitude when they walk and re-create.
Posted by Steve | September 26, 2006 9:04 PM
While reflecting on how to answer this question, I thought of a stanza from a song on Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" album:
Change my way of thinking
Gonna make myself a different set of rules
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Gonna put my best foot forward
Stop being influenced by fools..
As long as people believe the "good old boy" "downtown crowd" or "Oregon way of doing things" -whatever you want to call it...confines them, it will. Imho, it is up to us as individuals to operate differently: to decide not to do what we know is wrong because someone ahead of us in a chain of command tells us to....to decide not to listen to malicious gossip and form opinions of people we don't know based on it; or, if we know the gossip is false, to confront it.
I believe the blogoshere is creating a forum for discussion of "taboo" issues that we've needed for a long time,so I am cautiously optimistic.
Posted by Cynthia | September 26, 2006 9:43 PM
sucessful (but political correct) segregation of gastarbeiter and bourgeois
upgrade the mental-health training of gastapol and strategically deployment so as to protect the pearl, the northwest 23rd and the waterfront
alas, portland will be "paris/berlin" of the pacific northwest
Posted by enrico | September 26, 2006 11:19 PM
And KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD... at all costs.
Posted by Dave Lister | September 27, 2006 10:50 AM