Southwest Hills Residential League
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Despite construction delays, PBOT’s Safe Routes To Schools program (SRTS) continues to complete work and add projects to SWHRL neighborhoods; most recently, crews installed “crosswalk closed” barricades on the south side of the SW Vista Ave/SW Spring St interesction. A striped crosswalk will be placed on the north side of the intersection. Modifcations to SW […]
SWHRL has big news here: previously, SWHRL members cleared up the path behind the guardrail on the last stretch before I-405, and PBOT removed a small section of guardrail at the upper end to allow easy access to that trail. This allowed pedestrians to get out of the road, and has seen heavy use, despite its […]
SW Montgomery, bike greenway and crossings – The new configuration at SW Patton and SW Greenway seems to be working well, as are the two crossings at either end of the SW Montgomery greenway (SW Patton, and SW Vista).
Ainsworth School – Safe Routes to School is still planning to install traffic-calming devices at the intersection of SW Spring and SW Vista, including a new crosswalk. Work has been delayed, but was expected soon. No word on whether the Annex crosswalk will get any traffic control aside from some plastic wands. A plan for […]
As some of you know, SW Trails #6 to Downtown has been cut off for some time, as the link between the stairs at SW Vista and SW Mill St. Terrace was closed by the property owner. While SWHRL is still looking for a way to re-establish this particular link, another has arisen: the path […]