6:00 - 6:05 PM: Introductions. 6:05 - 6:55 PM: Discuss the Design Overlay Zones Amendments Draft Concept Report and outline recommended comments for the SMILE Board to consider adopting. The overlay applies to all of our commercial and multi-family zones. The Project is proposing to remove the overlay from single-dwelling zones, to change the thresholds that trigger requirements, to add preservation bonuses for ‘character’ buildings (our low commercial storefronts), and a new conceptual framework for design guidelines and community design standards (which are almost always used in our neighborhood).  More information is at https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/70324. 6:55 - 7:05 PM: Review zoning […]

The Board will conduct a special session to discuss Moreland Woods.

7:30 p.m. Welcome - Introductions. 7:35 p.m. Review and pass minutes for May 2 meeting. 7:40 p.m. Annual Update: Land Use Committee, David Schoellhamer, Land Use Committee Chair. 7:55 p.m. Annual Update: Crime Prevention Committee, R. Corless, Crime Prevention Committee Chair. 8:05 p.m. Discussion: Teri Poppino, Crime Prevention Coordinator, Central Eastside.  Teri Poppino provides crime prevention services through the Office of Community & Civic Life in the Central Precinct of SE Portland, including the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood. 8:40 p.m. Annual Update: Stewardship of Natural Amenities Committee. Elizabeth Milner, SNAC Committee Co-Chair & SMILE Board Member. 8:50 p.m. Annual Update:Emergency Preparedness Committee.  Bob Burkholder, EPC Co-Chair and […]

Back to the regular schedule in July.

7:30 p.m. Welcome - Introductions. 7:35 p.m. Review and pass minutes for May 16 meeting. 7:40 p.m. Update: Sellwood Riverfront Concerts - Jim Friscia, event organizer. 7:55 p.m. Discussion: SE Uplift Funds for SMILE - Joel Leib, SMILE Board President. 8:05 p.m. Update: New Projector/Screen for SMILE Station - Vikki DeGaa, project co-organizer. 8:15 p.m. Discussion: Apartment Outreach - Tyler Janzen, SMILE Board Member. 9:00 p.m. Adjourn - Summer starts tomorrow!

See you at the casting pond in Westmoreland Park at 11:00.  Don't miss it!  Details here.

This is a reminder that tonight, the Sellwood-Moreland/Eastmoreland/Brooklyn Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) will be doing a training activity. The event will run from about 7 PM until 8:30. You may see our volunteers in their “gear” (orange vests; red backpacks and hard hats), traveling on foot from their homes to their designated staging areas. This is only a drill! Don't know what NET is? If you spot one of our volunteers, feel free to chat and ask questions. Also, read all about NET here (https://portlandprepares.org/net-teams/southeast/sellwood/) or here (https://www.facebook.com/Sellwood-Moreland-Eastmoreland-and-Brooklyn-NET-184784898986100/), or email sellwood.net@gmail.com for more information.

7:00 - 7:05 PM: Introductions. 7:05 - 7:45 PM: Neighborhood contact meeting for a two-story eight-unit apartment building at 5316 SE 18th Ave.  Architect Ben Hufford will tell us about the project, which will be subject to design review and public comment. 7:45 - 8:25 PM: Neighborhood Contact Code Update Project. Project Chief Sara Wright will discuss the Proposed Draft Report to be released in late June.  More information on the Project is at https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/74046 . 8:25 - 8:30 PM: Discussion of whether the committee should ask the SMILE Board to streamline submission of SMILE comments on some planning documents.  […]

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