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Safety

Preparedness Webinars: 1/26 & 1/27

Webinar #1 Animals & Preparedness Webinar Series, Cold Weather Edition: Pets & Small Animals This webinar will focus on how to safely care for small animals and pets during the cold winter months. Subject matter experts will speak about what to look for when caring for pets and small animals and how to keep animals […]

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Home

Ordering Link for Test Kits

Get free at-⁠home COVID-⁠19 tests Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order free at-⁠home COVID-⁠19 tests. The tests are completely free. According to https://www.covidtests.gov/, orders will usually ship in 7-12 days. Order your tests now so you have them when you need them. Order Free At-Home Tests If you need a COVID-⁠19 test […]

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Homelessness

Discover “Built For Zero” on 1/19

The community is invited to join the Goose Hollow Foothills League – Public Safety Livability, Parking Transportation Subcommittee.  GHFL is extending participation to surrounding neighborhoods to join a shared meeting on topics of homelessness that pierces all our hearts. Please join the zoom call on Wednesday, January 19th @ 530-7PM  AGENDA: Guest Speaker Keith Wilson will […]

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Be Heard on the Noise Review Board

The Noise Review Board is Seeking a New Member!The Noise Review Board serves as an advisory body to the Office of Community & Civic Life’s Noise Program and Portland City Council. We are seeking a new person to lend their experience and expertise to a member-at-large position! Noise Review Board Responsibilities The Noise Review Board […]

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City of Portland PBOT Transportation

Work Central City in Motion (CCIM)

Do you have an interest in Portland’s transportation system in Portland’s Central City? Are you a problem-solver, willing to help PBOT evaluate project designs, weigh trade-offs, resolve conflicts, and move forward with implementing projects in a timely manner?  If yes, please apply to serve on Central City in Motion Working Group!  The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is currently recruiting applications […]

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Home Homelessness

SWHRL Donation Drive 1/22-25

Donate Your Excess Clothes, Linens and Hygiene Products to Those Who Desperately Need Them SWHRL is collecting items in support of Transition Projects, an organization helping those on their journey from homelessness to housing and opening their pathways to employment, which we featured in our September panel on “Actions to End Homelessness.” What we are collecting: New or […]

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Feeling Trashed, Portland?

People for Portland is considering supporting legal action regarding the failure of state and local governments to properly manage, clean up and remove garbage, dangerous human and medical waste and other debris piling up across the City of Portland and Multnomah County. If you or someone you know has a home, a business or property […]

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City of Portland Land Use Planning and Sustainability

RIP2: Your comments?

The Planning and Sustainability Commission will hear public testimony on the RIP2 Proposed Draft on Tuesday December 14 at 5 p.m.; Portlanders invited to testify in person at the virtual hearing or in writing via the Map App.  Learn more about RIP2 Over the past year, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability staff have been developing a […]

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Land Use

Strohecker’s update December 2021

Sadly, not a good one – the developer interested in constructing a mix of apartments, condos and storefronts (https://www.strohredev.com/) indicates market forces have battered the project into submission; the current owner’s asking price for the property, coupled with rising labor and materials costs the past two years, means the project no longer makes economic sense […]

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Transportation

SW Montgomery Dr Greenway extension

Scott Cohen, PBOT’s Program Coordinator for Neighborhood Greenways and Bikeway Missing Links, shared a concept document for a proposed extension of the SW Montgomery Dr Greenway; this section would run from SW Vista Dr eastwards towards SW 14th Ave. This would make a nearly complete bike path from 405 to Council Crest, and if the […]