dougklotz.bsky.social
Housing, walk bike transit, Portland Ore
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We also have a Fit. With manual transmission!
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My experience in a PDX "Neighborhood Association", same: "We have a neighborhood association. I’ve attended meetings. I’ve participated. But we have a couple of “always say no” voices who shut down most new ideas. I find it exhausting. I don’t want to fight. I just want to be helpful. So I drifted."
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And part of the spec was enough headroom inside so postal workers can stand up while sorting mail. (Reduce repetitive injuries?) and low hood to see pedestrians better
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Portland, OR is doing a pilot program to plant trees in the "curb zone" in a single-family area, in places where underground utilities allow it. www.portland.gov/transportati...
Unfortunately, in much of city the (methane) gas supply pipes run parallel to the curb, 1.5m out in the street!
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Thank you for risking injury covering this story. Your reporting gives a broader perspective on the ICE Portland story.
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they used to offer you cash, or a credit that was a higher amount than the cash. But I was trying to get rid of books, not just exchange them, so I always took the cash. They're not doing that now?
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Those trees!
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Exactly. I argued this to Portland’s DOT decades ago, but IIRC their answer was that’s not in MUTC or AASHTO.
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Last ODOT studied this they were to lower 11th/12th under the tracks. Raising or lowering the tracks would be a 2-3 mile-long track and bridge project.
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That used to be at PDX
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But ODOT wants the width for PARKING? Why is parking even their concern? Or do they want the ability to add more travel lanes at any time by removing parking?
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Its main attraction seems to be the technical prowess: “How far can I stretch the glass? How much can I twist it?”
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Is Will related to Shamus ?
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Kramer: "They just write it off!"
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From the park website:
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Well, the gate was locked at 7:00 PM, & you had to go let latecomers in. My friend had some rented "educational films" and projector. Folks brought sleeping bags and we gathered in the "amphitheater" to watch 1960s 16mm educational films the host had found at a library. refreshments were consumed.
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I was part of a group that rented an overnight campout stay (they lock the gate behind you!) in a city park/ex Nike missle site (Hopkins Winderness Park) in Redondo Beach, CA.
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The new (double mast arm) pole could have been placed 15' west, along the Jefferson curb, and not blocked the corner for walkers. (about where that short parking sign was) Yes would have needed a longer arm.
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This link leads me to a "Page not found" page...
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Missing header that describes the 3 columns
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Surely it won't survive the construction!
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I don't understand what was wrong with the existing ramp. What changed in ADA? Max slope? min. width? I hear that the city doesn't do the curb-sided ramps (which save trees & lawn), because "some people" complain that they can't mow that lawn with their lawnmower. (They can't keep it on the curb?)
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But who put in the new sidewalk, and planted street trees, along the 14th frontage, seemingly in 2024? I would hope the project would be able to preserve the large street trees on Ankeny and on Burnside, but that doesn't seem likely.
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Large radius corners (a) should not exist, or (b) should prohibit right on red. Otherwise drivers will pull 20’ forward to be able to see oncoming traffic to make a RTOR.
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Yes. Heard the jets this afternoon in Portland. They seem to do that every month or so.
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Assisted by the remaining oil-burning plant at Los Alamitos!
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It should include the four-level and the downtown slot. For the preservationists, get on the Pasadena freeway eastbound from one of those on-ramps with a stop sign.
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It feels like so much of our society is being ruined by the stupidest people alive.
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I hesitate to ask where this is. Was the fine a "compromise" with the neighbors? "Well, we'll build it, but we won't use it, under penalty of fine."
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And they probably wouldn't allow a hospital either (the sirens! the parking!)
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Having grown up in a conservative San Diego in the 1960s, where they thought flouridated water was a "communist plot" (and thus didn't add it to water), I had a mouth full of cavities, and innumerable fillings, and am still dealing with the results.
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Southern California, and Oregon also, as far as I know. How else do you pronounce that first syllable? Or maybe you're thinking of "may - zhure"
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Ground floor living units (perhaps even in CM zones?) seem fine for sidewalk activation, when there's a recessed "porch" feeling:
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Several builders have lined the grnd flr with live-work units. Hawthorne, S side, 44th-45th, with 3 or 4 retail uses (salons, etc), and 4975 Division has these on two sides (+ a corner retail). While yes, most spaces have closed blinds, active use is not precluded. Child care is possible currently?
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Yes, I'm in Portland. Condo liability laws vary by state apparently.
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These are mostly if not all being built as individual houses for sale (with zero lot lines, and utility and access easements). AFAIK.
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Most if not all housing built under these regulations has been for-sale, not rentals. The four plexes are technically on four small lots, with access and utility easements. They could be condos, but the condo-liability issue makes individual lots (albeit zero-lot-line) more attractive.
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I don't like bioswales that eliminate places where trees could be planted. I see 75' long swales with no trees in them. True of either "furnishing zone" swales or "parking lane" swales. We know they can interrupt them with trees, because sometimes they do.
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And broadly up-zoning for housing (and retail) is the other thing that makes sense right now!
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They might put a painted pipe at the right level, hanging by chains, so people'd bump into it if too high. But that's too subtle. They'd drive in anyway. So, weld a steel beam at the correct height at the entrance to actually block too-high vehicles.
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Looks like the proposal does not include the 3/8 of a block north of Caruthers that is same zoning and in the same ownership.
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Wait, it has parking?? 🤔