Last chance to comment on PBOT’s Permanent Outdoor Dining Program Design Guidelines!
PBOT is currently developing permanent design guidelines for the Healthy Business Permitting Program to allow restaurants and bars to use the public Right-of-Way and expand their dining space through sidewalk cafés and streetside installations. These guidelines will ensure access for people with disabilities, emergency response, public transit operations, and loading zones and…...
We Need Your Help To Clean Up MLK JR BLVD!
SOLVE Oregon teams up with The City of Portland, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Metro of Portland, Soul District Business Association, and Trimet. The group invites the community to share the commitment to keeping our neighborhoods clean this Spring. Click the links below for meeting times and…...
Share your ideas for improving communication with Portland city government! April 15th
As Portland moves towards profound changes in how our city government works, Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN) is working with other neighborhood coalitions to maximize community engagement about our future. Join us April 15, noon-1pm, for a special Portland Engagement Project online “active listening session.” Sign up here. Read more…...
Provide feedback about the city’s livability through the Portland Engagement Project!
The following is a message from the City of Portland’s Office of Community and Civic Life: Dear Portland Friends, Colleagues & Community Organizations, The last time the City of Portland created a fresh community engagement framework was 1974. Nearly 50 years later, Portland’s population has doubled and faces livability, safety,…...
Portland Parks Foundation Small Grants available – deadline April 15th!
Do you have an idea to help make parks more accessible? The Portland Parks Foundation’s (PPF) Small Grants Program awards financial support to community-based organizations within the city of Portland who foster equitable access to our urban parks, natural areas, community gardens and community recreation centers. The program is founded…...
Traffic calming efforts on NE 7th – news from BikePortland
By Taylor Griggs “There are more changes afoot on NE 7th as part of the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Lloyd to Woodlawn Neighborhood Greenway project. When PBOT began planning this greenway project, they decided to build it on NE 9th instead of NE 7th like many advocates hoped for. But…...
Hollywood Star features Woodlawn BEECN and NET volunteers
Woodlawn residents Erin Cooper, Beth Heins, and Anjala Ehelebe are part of a citywide network of volunteers to help neighbors during emergency situations. What are BEECN and NET? BEECN stands for “basic earthquake emergency communication nodes.” BEECNs have been established to move information during a disaster. According to Nancy Varekamp,…...
City of Portland – Designated Camping Sites Meeting Nov. 16th
Please join the mayor’s office this Wednesday, 11/16 from 4:30-6:00pm for another zoom webinar to continue the discussion on designated camping sites. They will provide an update on sites, background on the concept, provide their thinking on elements of community benefits agreement, and take input and answer questions on all related…...
City of Portland – Designated Camping Sites Meeting Nov. 10th
Join City of Portland staff this Thursday, November 10 from 4:00-5:30pm to discuss issues related to designated camping sites. Staff will provide an update on camping sites, background on the concept, provide some of our initial thinking on elements of community benefits agreement, and take input and answer questions on…...
