09/14/2019
Update: September 14th 2019
Arbor Lodge NA meeting
ALNA is open to all who live, work, play in Arbor Lodge; please come join us and help make your neighborhood even better.
Thursday: September 19th, 7pm
Kenton Fire House, 8105 N. Brandon
Agenda:
* Welcome
* Committee Reports:
Land Use - including LUBA appeal discussion, request for support from other NA's
Clean Air
Parks
Trees
* Brainstorming any bills/checks needed in October/November - Ginger (check signer) will be gone
* Elections - in October - how are we recruiting? ideas?
* NPNS, Inc report due November 15th - who can assemble it - required to continue insurance coverage
* Treasurer's Report
* Approval of Minutes for August
* Annoucements? PUAH gathering on October 25th at KFH, others?
09/08/2019
September Land Use Committee Meeting
Tuesday, September 10 6:30-7:30pmThe Arbor Lodge Coffee, 1507 N Rosa Parks Way
Come to our monthly land use meeting to discuss current sites of interest, current and proposed development, and other land use issues occurring in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood. All are welcome. Below is the agenda. Attendees are not required to attend the entire meeting; if one project is of interest to you, please feel free to show up for just that portion of the meeting! Also, feel free to reach out regarding any land use issues or with questions about any of the agenda items below. Contact us at landuse@arborlodgeneighborhood.com
Your land use committee is made up of volunteers working to advocate for quality affordable house, diverse housing options, and active street-level uses in the hope that Arbor Lodge can grow to become an increasingly diverse, equitable, lively, walkable, and truly inclusive neighborhood. If you would like to help us in these pursuits, please join us!
6:30-7:15: 6545 N Denver, updates and next steps
7:15-7:30: Better Housing By Design, public comment open
08/20/2019
Update: August 20th 2019
Do you love living in Arbor Lodge? Like having a Port a Potty in the Park in winter? Enjoy the BBQ each summer? Are glad we have 1 of only 3 Pesticide/herbicide Free Parks in Portland? Support the Brian Duncan Fruit Tree Free Giveaway each March?
Then Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association needs you!October is election time and all positions on the Board are open for Election, see the list here:* Chair - assembles an Agenda each month with input from Board, Facilitates the meeting attends one other monthly meeting of all Chairs, or delegates it to someone* Vice Chair - takes on projects, fills in for Chair as needed* Secretary - takes minutes at the meetings, posts them online and to North Portland Neighborhood Services, maintains the mailing list/blog list* Treasurer - keeps all financial records, banking, receipts, etc. Completes and files 3 required reporting forms each year, all three one page formats* 8 At Large Positions - attends meetings, shares ideas and opinions, can take on Committee Leadership like Clean Air, Land Use, Parks, Trees - your ideas
We meet monthly at the Kenton Fire House (it's free), at 7pm on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Come join us on September 19th to see what we are about, consider running for one of the above positions. We usually have some fun, sometimes get into controversial topics, and are working on our outreach to represent more of Arbor Lodge equitably.
08/07/2019
Update: August 7th 2019
Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association meeting noticeThursday, August 15th, 7pmKenton Fire House, corner of Schofield and Brandon
All meetings of the Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association are open to all who live or work in Arbor Lodge, renters, home owners, those who work here, those who own or run a business here, and our houseless neighbors. Please come join the discussion about your neighborhood.
AGENDA:
7:00 Welcome
7:10 BES, Sewer Project presentation, Q&A - fyi I let BES know the date/time for our meeting is not correct in his flier. Come learn where, what, about sewer repair in Arbor Lodge coming to streets near you!
7:30 Land Use update
7:40 Clean Air Update
7:50 Park Update
7:55 Tree Update
8:00 - review of Minutes, budget discussion, upcoming elections
8:10- request from East Columbia for a letter of support on Air National Guard flight issues
8:15 - invitation from the Portland Marathon - do we want to participate with a Cheer Table?
8:20 discussion on changes to Office of Civic Life Code for NA's
8:30 announcements and adjourn.
08/07/2019
Update: August 7th 2019
August Land Use Committee Meeting
Tuesday, August, 6:30pThe Arbor Lodge Coffee, 1507 N Rosa Parks Way
Come to our monthly land use meeting to discuss current sites of interest, current and proposed development, and other land use issues occurring in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood. All are welcome. Below is the agenda. Attendees are not required to attend the entire meeting; if one project is of interest to you, please feel free to show up for just that portion of the meeting! Also, feel free to reach out regarding any land use issues or with questions about any of the agenda items below. Contact us at landuse@arborlodgeneighborhood.com
Your land use committee is made up of volunteers working to advocate for quality affordable house, diverse housing options, and active street-level uses in the hope that Arbor Lodge can grow to become an increasingly diverse, equitable, lively, walkable, and truly inclusive neighborhood. If you would like to help us in these pursuits, please join us!
Agenda:
6:30-7:00: Early Neighborhood Involvement Meeting with Minarik Architecture regarding a multifamily project at 1605 N Rosa Parks Way (the northwest lot at the corner of N Rosa Parks Way and N Greenwich Ave). The project proposal is for an eighteen unit building. At the meeting, the representative will discuss the the design, process, and existing street trees.
7:00-7:30: Discussion regarding project at 6545 N Denver Ave. The neighborhood association is discussing options moving forwards towards trying to push for this 66 unit project to include some ground floor commercial space--in order to help ensure an integral part of an intersection in what is essentially the "downtown" of the Arbor Lodge Neighborhood serves all of us for the long term.
7:30-7:_45:_ Open discussion.