Stop Portland City Council from Ignoring Neighborhood Associations

I LOVE our Neighborhood Association and all the good that they do for the area. Please support them fully!

Don't strip neighborhoods of their voice. This move reminds me of the council style of government, which is entirely dysfunctional. Don't do it!

How dare you exclude the very people that make up Portland.

Please do not change the city code 3.96 and and erode the voice of the neighborhoods and the volunteers that do so much top make this city livable!

I understand your desire to hear from minorities and agree that we need to do something about that. That said, I think the city council and mayor need to be more aware of community Input, and neighborhood associations are one way to do that.

Neighborhood Associations are a famous Portland asset and make our communities better. While they will not be eliminated by proposed changes since they are private nonprofit corporations, the City code infrastructure is proposed to change and eliminate definitions, articulation of roles, open meeting requirements, public recordkeeping and other standards. This is problematic! These code-based elements are important and should be restored.

Another move to reduce our democratic rights.

L:and Use Chair, South Portland NA

I can see the point that renters and temporary tenants have very little voice with the current neighborhood association set up. It seems like creating new rules within the neighborhood associations that keep a few people from having all of the power and ignoring the voices of new neighbors would be a better way to approach this problem rather than just getting rid of neighborhood associations all together.

Listen to the people who pay your wages and not the developers

Hey, City Council... please stop behaving as if you have to protect yourself from your own neighborhoods.

I cannot believe this. The city is considering removing the influence of Neighborhood Associations. Their claim that there is no accountability or transparency is ludicrous in light of their own failures in those very arenas Let's let them know in no uncertain terms that they'll be terminated in the next election if they don't support us & our neighborhoods - which is what they were elected to do.

Please stop messing with your constituent communities. You're risking your mandate by operating in the dark.

Leave our neighborhood associations alone. What is your real motive behind this course of action you want to take

Neighborhood empowerment has made Portland great! Keep neighborhood associations strong!

I was on the Concordia neighborhood board and am currently living in Boise. Neighborhoods are the core of our community! Please - invest in neighborhoods and neighborhood associations and create a better Portland through more neighborhood inclusiveness and association partnerships!

This appears more to be an authoritarian move by some members of the city administration who are aiming to exclude the wishes of their constituents for the benefit of their own agendas.

This is a step in the wrong direction for this city.

we need our voice to be heard since our council members are forgetting who they represent

Those of us who live in Portland Neighborhoods - renters and homeowners, deserve to be represented as individuals and through our Neighborhood Associations. If this right is eliminated, how are we to be fairly represented when developers have such a loud financial voice? I'm a 5th generation Portlander and daily shocked at how little concern seems to be placed on providing adequate parking within newly built structures. Lovely SE neighborhood streets are now jammed with cars from multi-story building residents for whom no parking was provided. That's just one issue. I understand the city needs to change to accommodate a growing population, I understand the planning commission believes it is planning well for the future, but I don't think that the quality of life issue is being given adequate weight in the equation.