What cracks me up is when people get all up in arms about change in a neighborhood where some 1950's developer threw up some cheap post-war tract housing. I've been a land use consultant for going on 40 years and the only constant is that people uniformly hate change, no matter what kind of change it is that's being proposed.
You can tear down old houses all you want..... I just wish our infrastructure was actually built to accommodate a population in the millions instead of a population in the hundreds of thousands.
The thing I found the funniest was when I first did the planning for a manufactured home park near the neighborhood I was living in back in the '80s. People came around to my door wanting me to sign a petition against the project. They were all afraid the trailer people would ruin the values of their properties, which of course never happened. Fifteen years later, that same property had been sold and the new owner wanted to remove the manufactured home park and put in an upscale subdivision. People came unglued and had major protests about losing affordable housing in the community.
The trend here in LA with these is they put up boxy, modern structures with little to no yard space to maximize square footage. The houses are gigantic versus the other houses in the neighborhood, its weird.
Yeah, that would be nice, but it never happens that way. There just isn't a pile of money available to put in all of the roads, schools, water lines, sewer services, etc. and then open things up for development. Instead, the communities have to do it in reverse by charging system development charges on every new building permit and using the money to fund capital improvements to fix things up retroactively.
We sure sunk a lot of money into mass transit..... which is already beyond capacity. Seems to me they hedged their bets that lightrail and bicycles could release some of the pressure, but it's not having nearly enough impact. They spent millions on a bridge that only MAX, buses, brikes, peds can cross.
Not really. There are gangs (i never see them) in rockwood. But its not scary like some people think. I live in troutdale though, so closer to the nicer parts of gresham. My first house was in rockwood. Wasnt terribly scary, but definitely needed an alarm on the house.
Nah. I checked like a year ago and there was like 1 in troutdale. I dont remember many being in gresham. Lloyd district was littered with them
Tbh, i feel just as unsafe as rockwood as i do in parts of vancouver, hillsboro, estacada, lloyd district, killingsworth or gateway
Not sure the Portland/Vancouver area could ever build infrastructure fast enough. The more you build the faster people will move here. The worst thing that ever happened to Vancouver WA was when they built the second bridge. Vancouver won the “All American City Award” twice, (1957 &1986). It was a great city to live in then. 20 years later, after the Glen Jackson Bridge was built, so many people moved here our central area was closing in on a slum rating. Now they are talking about building a third bridge. And I am moving to the mountains into a cave to get away for the madness. I used to work in Portland back in the early 1970s. Rush hour on I-5 was when I could see 10 or more cars. This Monday I had to drive into and around Portland. It took me forever to drive just a few blocks. Traffic was backed up due to two accidents. Then I would hit construction backups. When I finally found a street were the traffic was moving, (MLK Street), some clown on a bicycle gets in front of me in the car lane, and is going way slower than the traffic. There was so much traffic in the other lane I could not pass the bicycle. TOOOO MANY PEOPLE LIVE HERE NOW!!!!
Happy valley is pretty nice hcp. They even have a burrito truck at the new food cart station. Its a match made just for you
