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Here’s a message from Steve Bloom, Executive Director of the Japanese Garden: July 25, 2013 Dear Neighbors, As the Portland Japanese Garden continues to plan for an expansion of the Garden and its facilities over the next few years, we intend to continue to keep our neighbors current and engaged in the process. Currently, we […]

A citizen-initiated effort is afoot to get a footbridge built to carry the Wildwood Trail over West Burnside.  If you hike or run on the Wildwood, you probably know how difficult and dangerous this crossing is:  three lanes of high-speed car traffic, with no crosswalk.  Fifteen years ago, Portland’s Pedestrian Master Plan called for a […]

On Sept. 5, 2012, the Portland City Council passed an amendment to the city’s skateboard ordinance, banning skateboarding on the “Zoobomb route” (Fairview-Kingston-Tichner-Marconi-Park) as well as the alternate route down Hampshire-Champlain-Rutland, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.  The fine for violating this prohibition is $115.  The ordinance retains the existing requirements that skaters wear front […]

On the agenda for our August 13 neighborhood meeting is the proposed ban on skateboarding on certain streets.  The meeting is 5:30 – 7 p.m. at the Sylvan Fire Station, 1715 SW Skyline.  Neighborhood Response Team police officer Hilary Scott will talk about recent efforts to enforce traffic laws against skateboarders, and Greg Raisman of […]

Here’s the powerpoint presentation used in the July 18, 2011 meeting with city officials to discuss ways to address the skateboarding problem in the neighborhood.  The videos had to be deleted to get under the maximum file size limits. MANAGING SKATEBOARDS IN ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 2 You can view the videos here: Arlington Heights Skateboard violators […]