Land Use Committee Meeting minutes
7 pm, Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Attending: Oma Richmond, Lindy Cicada, Committee Chair John Fall, Katherine Krajnak, Dean, Jane Wilcox, Ron Stallinger, Gabe Dominek, B. Madison Ragland, Jen Dzienas, Kevin Valk, Mark Downing
Planning a response regarding the proposed 20th and Albert Condo Complex
John Fall, committee chair, said he spoke with planner Justin Dollard and the architect.
1. John received the letter of notification of the project on August 23rd.
2. From that date, we have 14 days to reply and then 45 days to meet with the developer.
3. Then, the developer is required to send a letter to the City, stating their response to comments made at the meeting. This can be anything from a decision to redesign based on neighborhood comments to a refusal to consider any changes.
4. After that letter is received at the City, the City issues a Public Notice to neighborhood associations, businesses and residents surrounding the property, and a 21-day Public Comment period begins.
John says that it is important to be visible throughout this process, that steps 1-3 above are important in that City will want to see if the neighborhoods and the developer are willing to participate in the process. Once steps 1-3 are completed, the public comment period is actually more important in determining how much influence we will have in the process.
Lindy Cicada, Vernon Neighborhood Assoc. President, said that she and George Bruender (Concordia), had met with Craig Fondren He lives on NE 20th just behind the Lagniappe Restaurant and is active in the Sabin Neighborhood Assoc. He believed that the land use committee should use the landmarks process to challenge the 20th and Alberta condo, that there were Landmarks Commission rulings that would help us. And he also said to “make a lot of noise”.
Kevin said that the landmarks commission reviews landmarks in historic districts, but he didn’t know that this was an historic district. The Mississippi neighborhood is, for instance. Dean remarked that Craig had always helped the neighborhood.
Preparing for the Meeting with the Developer
Katherine, a planning student at Portland State, recommended that we plan and produce two two-hour workshop/meetings on the aspects of building design in order to prepare community members to comment on various details of the proposed building and areas of change that could make it more acceptable to the neighborhood.
She thought that this way, a larger group/wider range of people would be able to come together, just once, to tell us what they regard as highest priorities for negotiating with the developer, based on a list of possible areas of change.
The committee agreed that one weeknight and one weekend workshop would make it accessible to a good number of people and fit within the schedule of meeting with the developer.
Katherine will plan and present the workshops. John Fall will try to secure a space. We need something larger than Enterbeing, we think.
John will try to schedule the meeting with the architect/developer for October 2nd or 3rd at 7 or 7:30. It was agreed that 12 people should attend that meeting, no more than four from each neighborhood association, that is, King, Vernon and Concordia.
To prepare for that, John will also try to secure spaces for the workshops. Target dates for the week night workshop would be September 21st or 27th (preferably the 21st). The weekend workshop would be Sept 16th or September 23rd (23rd is much preferred.)
Committee and neighborhood association members will deliver flyers (created by Katherine) in the neighborhoods. Katherine distributed a summary of the proposed workshops.
It was suggested that we could get facilitation help for the workshops from Judith Mowry at Resolutions NW. Katherine agreed to call her.
John will send the letter to the architect/developer tomorrow, that’s August 31st. He asked them for the following:
∑ Bring a staff member of Emerald Construction to the meeting
∑ Bring someone who represents the company, a decision-maker
∑ Also, we would like to see detailed drawings with materials samples and, if possible, 3-dimensional images of the building
∑ We would like to know their proposed construction time table
∑ Told them that, in the interim, we would be gathering community input
(Note: John Fall received a copy of the architect’s plans soon after this meeting. Contact him to find out how to review the plans.)
Gabe Dominek said that they have to come in good faith and that we need a lot more information.
Neighborhood Tour Update
The tour was postponed until Thursday, September 7th. Tour reps (Lindy, Katherine, Tara and Larry) will talk with them about what we do and don’t like about development in the area. They are trying to answer the question, “What’s good infill?” They will be looking at development around the intersection of 15th and Killingsworth. They will be talking about zoning issues, also issues in the King neighborhood.
Katherine plans to give the planners a memorandum. She will email the finished memorandum to committee members. She can be reached at katk@pdx.edu
The meeting adjourned at 8 pm and the next meeting was set for Wednesday September 13th in order to meet again before the workshops.
Attending: Oma Richmond, Lindy Cicada, Committee Chair John Fall, Katherine Krajnak, Dean, Jane Wilcox, Ron Stallinger, Gabe Dominek, B. Madison Ragland, Jen Dzienas, Kevin Valk, Mark Downing
Planning a response regarding the proposed 20th and Albert Condo Complex
John Fall, committee chair, said he spoke with planner Justin Dollard and the architect.
1. John received the letter of notification of the project on August 23rd.
2. From that date, we have 14 days to reply and then 45 days to meet with the developer.
3. Then, the developer is required to send a letter to the City, stating their response to comments made at the meeting. This can be anything from a decision to redesign based on neighborhood comments to a refusal to consider any changes.
4. After that letter is received at the City, the City issues a Public Notice to neighborhood associations, businesses and residents surrounding the property, and a 21-day Public Comment period begins.
John says that it is important to be visible throughout this process, that steps 1-3 above are important in that City will want to see if the neighborhoods and the developer are willing to participate in the process. Once steps 1-3 are completed, the public comment period is actually more important in determining how much influence we will have in the process.
Lindy Cicada, Vernon Neighborhood Assoc. President, said that she and George Bruender (Concordia), had met with Craig Fondren He lives on NE 20th just behind the Lagniappe Restaurant and is active in the Sabin Neighborhood Assoc. He believed that the land use committee should use the landmarks process to challenge the 20th and Alberta condo, that there were Landmarks Commission rulings that would help us. And he also said to “make a lot of noise”.
Kevin said that the landmarks commission reviews landmarks in historic districts, but he didn’t know that this was an historic district. The Mississippi neighborhood is, for instance. Dean remarked that Craig had always helped the neighborhood.
Preparing for the Meeting with the Developer
Katherine, a planning student at Portland State, recommended that we plan and produce two two-hour workshop/meetings on the aspects of building design in order to prepare community members to comment on various details of the proposed building and areas of change that could make it more acceptable to the neighborhood.
She thought that this way, a larger group/wider range of people would be able to come together, just once, to tell us what they regard as highest priorities for negotiating with the developer, based on a list of possible areas of change.
The committee agreed that one weeknight and one weekend workshop would make it accessible to a good number of people and fit within the schedule of meeting with the developer.
Katherine will plan and present the workshops. John Fall will try to secure a space. We need something larger than Enterbeing, we think.
John will try to schedule the meeting with the architect/developer for October 2nd or 3rd at 7 or 7:30. It was agreed that 12 people should attend that meeting, no more than four from each neighborhood association, that is, King, Vernon and Concordia.
To prepare for that, John will also try to secure spaces for the workshops. Target dates for the week night workshop would be September 21st or 27th (preferably the 21st). The weekend workshop would be Sept 16th or September 23rd (23rd is much preferred.)
Committee and neighborhood association members will deliver flyers (created by Katherine) in the neighborhoods. Katherine distributed a summary of the proposed workshops.
It was suggested that we could get facilitation help for the workshops from Judith Mowry at Resolutions NW. Katherine agreed to call her.
John will send the letter to the architect/developer tomorrow, that’s August 31st. He asked them for the following:
∑ Bring a staff member of Emerald Construction to the meeting
∑ Bring someone who represents the company, a decision-maker
∑ Also, we would like to see detailed drawings with materials samples and, if possible, 3-dimensional images of the building
∑ We would like to know their proposed construction time table
∑ Told them that, in the interim, we would be gathering community input
(Note: John Fall received a copy of the architect’s plans soon after this meeting. Contact him to find out how to review the plans.)
Gabe Dominek said that they have to come in good faith and that we need a lot more information.
Neighborhood Tour Update
The tour was postponed until Thursday, September 7th. Tour reps (Lindy, Katherine, Tara and Larry) will talk with them about what we do and don’t like about development in the area. They are trying to answer the question, “What’s good infill?” They will be looking at development around the intersection of 15th and Killingsworth. They will be talking about zoning issues, also issues in the King neighborhood.
Katherine plans to give the planners a memorandum. She will email the finished memorandum to committee members. She can be reached at katk@pdx.edu
The meeting adjourned at 8 pm and the next meeting was set for Wednesday September 13th in order to meet again before the workshops.
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