Meet the new Metro bobbleheads
Same as the old Metro bobbleheads:
Chase, whose District 5 seat includes most of the city of Portland north of Interstate-84, is the executive director of the Coalition of Community Health Clinics, a network of 14 non-profit health clinics in Multnomah County. Prior to joining the coalition in 2010, he served as Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish's chief of staff.Dirksen's District 3 seat includes most of Washington County south of the Tualatin Valley Highway/Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, plus the Clackamas County parts of Tualatin and Wilsonville. He is an industrial designer for CH2M Hill and served as Tigard's mayor from 2004 through 2012 following two years on the Tigard City Council.
Stacey's District 6 seat covers most of Portland south of I-84 and U.S. 26. A long-time land-conservation advocate, Stacey served as executive director of 1000 Friends of Oregon for seven years.
A City Hall type, a CH2M Hill type, and a true believer -- all aboard for Fantasyland!
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Maybe they will neutralize one another? (Hope springs eternal, change does not).
Posted by TheOtherDave | January 4, 2013 3:27 PM
http://cascadepolicy.org/?p=10795
In American Nightmare, O’Toole says Portland Metro is aiming to reduce Portland-area single-family homes from 65 percent to 41 percent … this is nothing short of a war on home ownership. The author also inveighs against government subsidies for housing by illustrating how subsidies do more harm than good by actually making housing more expensive.
If this is the directive, the redo and instability isn't ending. I can see where the way the word blight is tossed around, entire blocks of certain neighborhoods may be characterized as blight to make room for more "units" to house the people.
Remember smart growth would be taking down groves of more huge trees to be replaced with urban street trees.
Posted by clinamen | January 5, 2013 11:34 AM
I wish our planners would move to East St. Louis...they have a light rail line and yet the city is still a disgrace to human civilization...
Are we really trying to be like Detroit??? Or New Orleans? Let's just tear down entire neighborhoods...
Posted by Erik H. | January 5, 2013 4:34 PM
Years ago I heard of a document that stated that if the land underneath one's home is considered to be more valuable than the house, there could be measures to deal with that. I didn't see it, but nothing would surprise me. It doesn't bode well to see apparently more of the same in Metro. Hasn't enough been done already?
Posted by clinamen | January 5, 2013 5:01 PM
I heard of a document that stated that if the land underneath one's home is considered to be more valuable than the house, there could be measures to deal with that.
My house is like that.
Interestingly, my home also sits very close to a proposed "Sherwood" MAX Line...
It does not faze me to think that Metro has developers at heart, not its constituency citizens, and it would love to take over my land and that of homeowners like myself...is it really coincidence that the value of my home/property has declined in the last several years, even though there are not very many homes for sale in my part of town? Yet, in parts of the City of Portland where there are dozens of homes for sale, the values haven't dropped (and the homes aren't selling)?
Posted by Erik H. | January 7, 2013 7:39 AM