Is Port of Portland looking for handout for West Hayden Island?
The folks who are trying to stop the Goldschmidt People at the Port of Portland from raping wildlife habitat on West Hayden Island for a pointless shipping facility sounded a couple of alarming notes the other day. Their Facebook page contains these entries, with emphasis added by us:
The Port of Portland is presenting a new set of "guiding principles." This is the third time in three hearings that the Port has attempted to introduce new guiding principles that eliminate the commitment to fully mitigate for their environmental impacts. At the same time they are also putting forward a new principle that suggests that the public should share the costs of the facility....PSC [city planning and sustainability commission] West Hayden Island Work Session is over. The City seems to be contorting itself into a pretzel in order to lower the Port's costs, even as at least a few commissioners push back. Also a big theme that emerged today is that WHI development needs to be a shared expense -- in other words the taxpayers are going to be put on the hook. We are coming up on the end of this process -- we really need to start building the opposition. Over and out.
Are they expecting a subsidy from the city's taxpayers? What grifters run this town. This whole cockamamie proposal needs to be put up for a public vote. We bet it would go down in flames.
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Comments (5)
Well of course the tax payers are supposed to foot the bill for this insanity!
Was there ever any doubt?
Portland will have yet another useless and very expensive boondoggle to add to those already in existence.
Iconic, vibrant, vitality, green, multi-modal, blah,blah, blah....
Posted by Portland Native | March 29, 2013 11:49 AM
A little head tax should cover it.
Posted by Allan L. | March 29, 2013 12:57 PM
It is totally like being surrounded by zombies. While we're distracted with West Hayden Island, the Convention Center Hotel rears its head. And just when you thought the Burnside/Couch couplet on the west side was dead, it will be rising like the sun as soon as our backs are turned. The object is to make everyone so dizzy they can't keep track of all the porky projects biding their time. And you do realize that a lot of tweeting and blogging and four-color mailings are necessary to bring these visions to fruition and stress the necessity of supporting each and everyone because the great unwashed of Portland just don't understand urban renewal, progress and sustainability.
Posted by NW Portlander | March 30, 2013 5:51 PM
The object is to make everyone so dizzy they can't keep track of all the porky projects biding their time.
Keep the problems popping up for everyone to be overwhelmed.
This works for them.
It also works when we don't have investigative journalism.
This blog will be missed.
Posted by clinamen | March 31, 2013 12:27 AM
. . . looking for a handout. . .
. . . supposed to foot the bill. . .
So those who are looking for a handout are asking others to foot the bill!
Posted by clinamen | March 31, 2013 12:48 AM