North Park Blocks PDX

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  • City Neglect Closes Another North Park Blocks Business

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    First, Glyph (another North Park Blocks eatery) closed in Sept 2015. Now Remedy. Remedy Wine Bar featured huge windows that overlooked the North Park Blocks. A park-side location should be an asset to a gracious wine bar. But not when it’s adjacent to a space that city neglect has turned into a de facto homeless encampment. Portland Parks Commissioner…

  • Wapato Beats Shanty Towns

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    This winter is has been cold, wet and cruel for those forced to live on the streets. One of Portland’s responses has been to authorize the creation of ad-hoc shanty towns. Unregulated homeless camps are growing all over Portland – most recently at North Greeley called Hazelnut Grove. City Commissioner Amanda Fritz recently told KGW  “Every neighborhood in Portland will be…

  • Behavior is Key

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    Northwest Examiner Letter to the Editor December 2015 pdf We’re delighted that one respondent plans to open her home to an unfortunate “druggie-type.” However, to the rest of questions, we offer this response. November 2015 pdf The “rubric” we are using is the survey of over 150 NPB visitors this summer conducted by police department community service…

  • PDX Newest Homeless Camp “Bursting at the Seams”

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    Commissioner Amanda Fritz has already stated “Every neighborhood in Portland will be asked to find a spot to put a homeless camp.” She has yet to explain where the city plans on locating these camps, and has not expressed any concerns on impact camps will have on surrounding neighborhoods. Fritz’s and city council’s willingness to support these improvised camps ignores the…

  • Fritz to PDX: Make Room for Homeless Camps

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    Portland Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz startled us in this KGW interview when she stated that “Every neighborhood in Portland will be asked to find a spot to put a homeless camp.” Apparently she hasn’t noticed the utter failure of the homeless camp experiment just across the river in Vancouver. See Vancouver Allows Public Camping – Here’s What Happened…