10/14/2014
2015 Annual Meeting and Elections - Everyone Welcome
Please join us for Elections and more this Thursday, October 16th, 6:30, Kenton FireHouse
Agenda:
* Welcome/introductions* Year of ALNA in review, opportunity to sign up for next years' big events and suggest your ideas- it will be fun* Elections* By Law changes?* brainstorm of ideas for next year* maybe Guest presentation, Clean Energy.
If you are interested in being part of the Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association Board, come and let us know. We are eager to include everyone and all ideas and energies in ALNA.
10/11/2014
Put your hands in the air - ALNA's October E-news
Just in case we don't have your email address in MailChimp yet, here's a link to our most recent quarterly newsletter. Hope to see you at one or many October events! Click Here for the News.
10/10/2014
The Future's So Bright...ALNA's Comp Plan Comments for Review
After many months of discussion and outreach, we are ready to submit comments on the City's Comprehensive Plan that will direct how the city (and our neighborhood) grows and is impacted by development over the next 20 years. From the City's website:
"Portland has only created one Comprehensive Plan before, and that was adopted almost 35 years ago. Today’s advances in technology provide planners with so much more information and data that it takes more time to analyze and apply the findings to our work...There’s definitely more to consider this time around. Portland is a third again as big as it was then, mostly due to annexation. And our increasingly diverse population has grown by 200,000 people...The issues the plan is addressing are also broader and more complex."
We looked at where we'd like to see businesses and apartment buildings, industrial warehouses, open spaces and more. Take a look at our draft comments, and bring your questions and ideas to our meeting, Thursday, October 16th, 6:30pm at the Kenton Firehouse. Also, feel free to contact our Land Use Volunteer, Nate Young at landuse@arborlodgeneighborhood.com if you'd like to ask questions outside of the meeting.
10/07/2014
Today - Take Action on Air Quality
Are you concerned about the air quality in our neighborhood?
Today, Tuesday, October 7 at 7:00pm - Buckley Center 163 at the University of Portland (5000 N. Willamette Blvd.)
Vigor Industrial, who operates a shipyard on Swan Island, has reached out to Neighbors for Clean Air to attempt to address community concerns about their impact on neighborhood air quality. As part of this process, Vigor Industrial has engaged an engineering firm, ERM, to conduct an alternatives analysis to reduce emissions and odors. Resident volunteers will be representing neighborhood interests in negotiating a Good Neighbor Agreement (GNA) with Vigor. It is vitally important that we meet with our neighbors, explain what we are doing, and find out from you what you would like us to include in and accomplish with this GNA. This first meeting is short - only one hour - in an effort to encourage as many neighbors as possible to join us. The advisory committee members will stay an additional half hour to answer questions.
Bring yourself and bring your neighbors - your presence will make a difference.
The meeting will:1. Introduce the advisory committee members2. Provide a brief history of how we arrived at this negotiating process3. Summarize the Odor and Hazardous Air Pollutants Emissions Assessment Plan currently underway at the Vigor facility on Swan Island4. Explain the purposes and goals of a GNA5. Gather desired outcomes to include in the Vigor GNA
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10/07/2014
Candidates for ALNA's Board
We are looking forward to another great board year in the Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association!We invite you to join us October 16th and vote to elect volunteers who will serve in the board (or run for a seat).The following people have declared the position they are interested in serving - and you can add your name to the list - just let us know if you'd like to run!
You may email any of the candidates if you have questions for them or would like to get to know them better.Allen WheelandBob MeehanDuane EldredEli PattonGinger EdwardsKaty AsherLauren PattonNate YoungNicole LeggettRobert GreenSharon ParkerTammi Kipp
Come vote at ALNA's Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 16, 2014!