April 25 General Meeting Draft Agenda
Special Board Meeting for next Tues., March 21st from 7:00 – 8:00 pm at the German American Society, 5626 NE Alameda St. This meeting has been added to the official city-wide calendar.
Topic: Reconsideration of a RCPNA 2015 Approved Recommendation to Rezone of 3 properties owned by Rich and Blair Peterson, located at the corner of NE 50th and Fremont St., from R2 to Mixed Use Commercial as a map amendment to the Comprehensive Plan Update.
Timing: Opportunity to ‘File an Objection’ closes within 21 days of the City’s pending submission of Task 4 and 5 of the Periodic Review/2035 Comprehensive Plan to the State of Oregon.
Agenda
7:00 – 8:00 pm
1. Welcome & Introductions (open the public meeting)
2. Historic record and actions regarding the Peterson Rezone from R2 to Mixed Use Commercial.
3. Existing options for comment or appeal/objection to the state.
4. Board Next Steps:
5. Adjourn
Mark your calendars and plan your spring cleaning: Our annual cleanup will be held on Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 9 am to 3 pm. You can bring that unwanted trash from your house, basement and garage to the parking lot of St. Rose of Lima School and Church (54th and Stanton) for drop off and maybe find your next treasure too at our rummage sale.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! SIGN UP HERE
The cleanup is a great way to give a little back to the neighborhood. No experience or skills needed — just show up and help us process the cleanup for your neighbors. Come for a couple of hours or for the whole day. Teens looking for service credits welcomed!
Each volunteer will need to sign a waiver (Download Form Here). Please print and bring with you if possible. We will have some extra copies if not.
More details on what can and cannot be accepted this year available on this cleanup information page.
Be sure to spread the word as well! Share with neighbors who might not be on our email list yet.
Please click here to review the agenda. Meetings are always open to the public for anyone interested in joining.
Download as a PDF here.
AGENDA
February 7, 2016 RCPNA Board Meeting
German American Society
7:00pm-9:00pm
Steven Effros Minutes Taker
What did we learn? What do we need to act on?
Business
Clean Up
Communications –
Emergency Preparedness
Entertainment –
Environment
Homelessness
Land Use & Transportation
Board Elections
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Expansion of Fremont Bus Line?
RCPNA General Meeting (PDF Format Here)
Tuesday January 24th, 2017
Rose City Park Neighborhood Association’s (RCPNA’s) next general membership meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 24th, 7 – 9 pm. Residents, property and business owners located within RCPNA are encouraged to attend but all are welcomed.
The meeting is open to the public and will be held at the German American Society, 5626 NE Alameda St., which is ADA-and transit-accessible (TriMet bus lines 12 and 71). Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Below is the agenda:
7:00 -7:10 Welcome and Introductions – Tamara DeRidder, RCPNA Chair
7:10 – 7:25 NE Neighborhoods Public Safety Action Committee (PSAC) Update – Gary Points, RCPNA Board Member.
7:25 – 7:45 Air Quality Update – DEQ representative & David Gates, Chair of Environmental Committee.
7:45 – 8:15 RCP Neighborhood Street Tree Inventory Overview & Next Steps – David Gates
8:15 – 8:45 City Residential Infill Project Update – Joe Zehnder, Chief Planner, or Sandra Wood, Supervising Planner, Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
8:45 – 9:00 Closing Comments
Volunteers Needed:
Interested in Volunteering? Contact us at info@rcpna.org or Chairwoman Tamara DeRidder at 503-249-6977.
Happy New Year Neighbors!
The January 2017 edition of the Rose City Park Review newsletter is being delivered by your neighborhood volunteers now, but you can get a sneak peak with this digital edition here.
Thank you to our editor Suzanne for another great issue of our newsletter. Don’t miss the agenda for the January 24th General Meeting, which is full of great topics.
Our Rose City Park neighborhood is lucky to have a tremendous inventory of beautiful trees. Over 5700 street trees alone, in fact!
The table above is from a recent report completed by volunteers led by our Environmental Committee Chair David Gates, the Rose City Park Street Tree Inventory. If you have an interest in our neighborhood “forest,” I highly recommend checking it out. In addition, there is a street tree inventory map and even an interactive map where you can look up the trees on your block.
At our January General Meeting (Jan 24 2017 at 7pm), we will have a presentation with more information from this report’s findings as well as info on how you can get involved with the Friends of Trees planting event for Rose City Park this coming March.
From Friends of Trees:
Wishing you had some more fall color at your home? Have you considered adding a tree or two to your yard or parking strip? Trees have many benefits including providing sidewalk shade, slowing traffic, reducing storm water runoff, cleaning the air, and making us feel better in general…to name a few. Planting a tree on the south or west side of a house or yard can block afternoon sun and provide significant cooling to the area. Planting an evergreen conifer can create a quick green screen or block an imposing streetlight from your bedroom window.
Friends of Trees is now taking orders for yard and street trees for the annual Rose City Park tree planting taking place next March. Interested households can get a tree planted at their home for only $35 a tree. To sign up and see a list of trees for your home, go to the Friends of Trees website to make an account. When you sign up early, you get the greatest selection of trees to choose from.
Sign up today at www.FriendsofTrees.org/plant. You can also reach your local Friends of Trees neighborhood coordinator volunteer Jesse S. at RoseCityPark@plantitportland.org with any questions or concerns.