Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Development

Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Development Association (HAND)
Community/ Board Meeting

Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM
(The Land Use meeting will start at 6:30)
St. Philip Neri Church Paulist Center, St Paul Room
2408 SE 16th Avenue (and Division)

Draft Agenda

Introductions
Crime Prevention Officer
Announcements (2-3 minute pitch for an event)

Updates
(1) Eastside Max – Jennifer Koozer, Tri-Met
(2) MLK/Grand Streetcar Loop – ?Kay Dannen?
(3) Clean Up – Amy and Marilee
(4) Dog Summit – Linda and Alex
(5) Filmed by Bikes (if not handled earlier) –
(6) Parklet/Roots of Our Neighborhood – Amy

Approval (matters that require board action)
(1) Drum for Cleveland?
(2) SEUL representative – Laura Vail

Internal Board Issues
(1) Approval of minutes
(2) Bylaws
(3) Guidelines for Finances

March 9th, 2010 | Category: Meetings, _All |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Vinyasa Yoga Class
Fridays 9:15 – 10:15 am
St. David’s Episcopal Church
2800 SE Harrison
In the Parish Hall (Enter on West Side)

$5/class

Questions: Call Mauri at 971-506-4560 or email: mauri@elementalmassage.com

March 9th, 2010 | Category: _All |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

village-building
community potluck
monday march 8, 6:30-8:30
at 2800 se harrison St.

come share food, friendship, and your vision
for two exciting additions
to the saint david’s grounds and your neighborhood:
tile mosaic wall and
community kiosk meeting place

bring a dish to share and come help us sketch, doodle, talk, and dream these projects into reality. children welcome! slide show begins promptly at 6:30, presented by special guests from city repair.

these projects made possible through the village building convergence,
to be hosted at saint david’s may 28-june 6.
www.cityrepair.org/projects/vb

March 7th, 2010 | Category: Events, _All |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

POV Dance, a local, architecturally based site-specific dance company presents its first evening length piece since September at the Historic Ford Building.

The show opens March 11. For more information, see the flyer below or check out: www.povdance.org.

pov ford poster

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Here is a chance to focus in on key areas of the Portland Plan in more detail. If you have a special interest in and/or special expertise or experience with one of the subject areas listed below, please consider attending the work sessions coming up during the next few weeks. These sessions will provide more in depth information about each topic area as well encouraging community members to add to or correct the background material being put together by the Technical Advisory Groups. Please share this invitation. All are welcome.

From: “Anderson, Susan”
Subject: Upcoming Portland Plan Technical Advisory Group work sessions More »

March 7th, 2010 | Category: Land Use, Transportation, _All |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

For anybody wishing to provide input on the Filmed By Bike street party we will be meeting with the event organizer on Tuesday, March 9th, 7-8pm at the Southeast Uplift building.

Tuseday, March 9th
7-8 pm
Southeast Uplift
3534 SE Main Street

*There is a parking lot on the east side of the building or street parking. We’ll meet in the meeting space in their basement area.

The meeting will be an opportunity for neighbors to discuss problem solving opportunities to deal with noise, trash and other concerns around the Filmed by Bike event on April 16th at the Clinton Street Theater.

For more details contact:
Havilah Ferschweiler
Southeast Portland Crime Prevention Coordinator
Office of Neighborhood Involvement
3534 SE Main Street
Portland OR 97214
503-823-0540
hferschweiler@ci.portland.or.us

March 5th, 2010 | Category: Crime, Transportation, _All |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

There have been a few recent incidents along SE Clinton, a city bike-boulevard, during school bus pick up time.

HAND Board Member Liz Gatti talks to Bike Portland about the issue:
Read about it here:
http://bikeportland.org/2010/03/05/southeast-portland-parents-raise-concerns-about-speedy-bike-traffic/

March 5th, 2010 | Category: Schools, Transportation, _All |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

There has been conversations circling about Abernethy Elementary School and potential redrawing of school boundary lines. Below is a letter sent from the district to the larger school community. (A PDF copy is also included)

February 17, 2010
To the Abernethy School community:
I am writing to share some important information with you about growing space issues at Abernethy School. As you know, Abernethy has experienced significant growth over the last few years. Your school is now up to four sections of kindergarten and has almost 400 students enrolled K-5. However, this has resulted in space issues at the school on the first floor, where grades K-2 must be located due to fire codes.
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February 22nd, 2010 | Category: Schools |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

If you’ve been wondering the latest on the old “Wild Oats” building, this might help shed some light. Below is a letter Stan Amy with New Villages Group, Ltd. sent out to neighbors regarding the building’s status:

Hi,
I want to update the neighborhood on where things currently stand with our efforts to reactivate the SE 30th and Division building. We very much appreciate everyone’s interest and encouragement, and enduring patience as we continue to work through the challenges with this project.

As you may recall, last February, we emerged successful from a protracted land use process that prevented us from redeveloping the building for over 2 ½ years after Wild Oats left. This delay proved costly in time, money, and especially in market opportunity. There have been two primary negative effects of the financial crisis for development projects such as ours:
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February 22nd, 2010 | Category: Land Use, _All |  Print This Post |  Email This Post | Leave a comment