The most effective action you can take is to write a letter, or call, Mayor Hales and the City Council. Below are some points you may like to make.
The most important point is your own personal and passionate reason why you want Ivy Island not to be vacated, razed and built on. Be sure to include that.
email: [email protected]
snail mail: Mayor Charlie Hales and City Council, Portland City Hall, 1221 SW Fourth Ave, Portland, OR 97203
Email is good but snail mail is better; email and snail are the best of all.
Some points for the Letter:
1) Ivy Island is a Traditional, lovely and Historic entrance into St. Johns. With mature trees. Nice, comfortable and ours.
2) On approach, currently the entrance gives a good view into the St. Johns Business District. If constructed, the view because of the Bolouri Development, upon entering St. Johns will be a four story wall of bland unattractive apartments. This will be the first impression of St. Johns upon entry. You will not see into the Business District until you are at the proposed right turn signal.
3) The current message upon entering St. Johns is a small town that’s a unique and a historic community that’s different from other parts of Portland. The Bolouri Development has no message other than “big,” “gentrification,” and just like every other up-and -coming Portland Neighborhood.
4) The new right turn signal will create traffic congestion. As motorists avoid this right turn traffic congestion it will change the traffic patterns in the neighborhoods.
5) It will make walkability into St. Johns worse, for if you want to walk into St. Johns you will be confronted by a four story wall of apartments that you’ll need to walk around. To do that you will be exposed to the traffic of Truck Route 30 , with only the sidewalk that Bolouri provides to separate you from the heavy traffic, heavy trucks and noise and air pollution.
6) The safety at the Charleston corner has alternative solutions. These include changing the sightline on Lombard so that it is no longer a blind curve, lowering the speed limit, traffic cams, pedestrian light etc.
7) The St. Johns Lombard Plan is given as justification for the vacation and razing of Ivy Island. The Bolouri Development is not in accordance with the St. Johns Lombard Plan. See letter titled “sold a Bill of Goods; cherry-picking the St. Johns Lombard Plan.”
Some good letters to look at; 1. “The Greatest Insult,” 2. “A Tip From Joan of Arc,” 3. “The Magic Genii,” 4. “I Would Miss Ivy Island.”
The most important point is your own personal and passionate reason why you want Ivy Island not to be vacated, razed and built on. Be sure to include that.
email: [email protected]
snail mail: Mayor Charlie Hales and City Council, Portland City Hall, 1221 SW Fourth Ave, Portland, OR 97203
Email is good but snail mail is better; email and snail are the best of all.
Some points for the Letter:
1) Ivy Island is a Traditional, lovely and Historic entrance into St. Johns. With mature trees. Nice, comfortable and ours.
2) On approach, currently the entrance gives a good view into the St. Johns Business District. If constructed, the view because of the Bolouri Development, upon entering St. Johns will be a four story wall of bland unattractive apartments. This will be the first impression of St. Johns upon entry. You will not see into the Business District until you are at the proposed right turn signal.
3) The current message upon entering St. Johns is a small town that’s a unique and a historic community that’s different from other parts of Portland. The Bolouri Development has no message other than “big,” “gentrification,” and just like every other up-and -coming Portland Neighborhood.
4) The new right turn signal will create traffic congestion. As motorists avoid this right turn traffic congestion it will change the traffic patterns in the neighborhoods.
5) It will make walkability into St. Johns worse, for if you want to walk into St. Johns you will be confronted by a four story wall of apartments that you’ll need to walk around. To do that you will be exposed to the traffic of Truck Route 30 , with only the sidewalk that Bolouri provides to separate you from the heavy traffic, heavy trucks and noise and air pollution.
6) The safety at the Charleston corner has alternative solutions. These include changing the sightline on Lombard so that it is no longer a blind curve, lowering the speed limit, traffic cams, pedestrian light etc.
7) The St. Johns Lombard Plan is given as justification for the vacation and razing of Ivy Island. The Bolouri Development is not in accordance with the St. Johns Lombard Plan. See letter titled “sold a Bill of Goods; cherry-picking the St. Johns Lombard Plan.”
Some good letters to look at; 1. “The Greatest Insult,” 2. “A Tip From Joan of Arc,” 3. “The Magic Genii,” 4. “I Would Miss Ivy Island.”