Stop Portland City Council from Ignoring Neighborhood Associations

Portland is allowing the developers to take over...they're here for money...WE live in the neighborhoods and our NAs are a vehicle to have our voices heard a t the table.

Bring in other groups for added input rather than closing down current input avenues.

I want my vote to count

I have written to the City Commissioners in support of this petition.

If we need a bigger table to accommodate NAs and identity groups and others groups, lets expand the table and spread the resources around in a more equitable fashion. Why waste time and energy on the clearly divisive solution put together by the Civic Life committee.

Please keep NAs empowered. Add other groups if you like.

In a world where the need for local communities is becoming increasingly more vital and important, eliminating neighborhood associations is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Arbor Lodge

Who could possibly trust the leaders we have right now to do the right thing? NA's are essential to our current form of government for many reasons, including being a checks and balance on development, projects, etc. They are part of the fabric of the old good part of Portland which keeps getting more and more lost along the way. We have been nationally recognized for our Neighborhood Association system and now these idiots want to throw them all away through back door politics that excluded people? Nope!

I certainly cannot trust our city officials to know what they are doing or to know anything about neighborhoods

Until Portland adopts a form of government that gives geographic representation, NA’s are essential to check council. They may not be perfect, but let’s improve them instead of burying them.

This proposed code change is not a good solution or path forward for helping or improving NAs to meet inclusivity objectives as the City perceives them. There is no barrier to inclusivity now, and with better support, not less requirements, inclusivity could thrive more.

need our neighborhood assoc.

Neighborhood Associations have been a cornerstone in welcoming everyone into being part of both neighborhood and city policy. Are NA’s perfect? Of course not. Should more effort be spent expanding the ranks from those of us fortunate enough with enough free time to easily participate? Of course. Especially now during this time of transformation from a suburban single family home community into “something else”, it feels important to keep and improve our community structure rather than dismantling us into free fall.

Absolutely unthinkable to eliminate Portland's neighborhood associations. Don't even consider it.

Maybe groups need to be added. Maybe there needs to be a shake up where things are changed. But no representation for the citizens of Portland leaves a vacuum. Where does anybody get to speak up and stand up to get city government to listen to its citizens.

Neighborhood associations play a vital part in representing the voice of the people who live there. Please don't silence & disregard this group.

Our neighborhood association has been very effective in representing a diversity of voices. Do not dilute the neighborhood association system.

Vital neighborhood associations are critical as a check and balance for City government. Don’t dilute this inclusive, democratic partnership.

Keep neighborhood associations involved in city decisions.