Stop Portland City Council from Ignoring Neighborhood Associations
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Stanley Hyde
7 years ago
The neighborhoods are kept stronger by the people being able to work together.
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Molly Guyot
7 years ago
Neighborhood Associations are part of what make Portland great. Do not undermine them or the citizens of Portland.
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Melinda Williams
7 years ago
I am very opposed to lessening the powers and importance of Portland’s neighborhood associations!
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Helena Wald
7 years ago
Especially with our current form of commission government, we really need neighborhood associations!
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Derek Blum
7 years ago
Neighborhood Associations play an important role. Changes in City Code should not marginalize NAs, rather create tools or mandates for them to increase participation from a larger or more diverse set of residents. Portland should not eliminate the single most effective and convenient channel for its residents to communicate with their City government.
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Dana Brenner-Kelley
7 years ago
Keep democracy in Portland. The people need a voice.
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Janet Schaeffer
7 years ago
city resident for 44 years
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kathy hansen
7 years ago
As a neighborhood activist and association participant in 3 different neighborhoods since 1980, I highly value the current process and am firmly against the council proposal
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7 years ago
We need to take back our city!
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Robert Lo
7 years ago
NA > City Hall
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Ron Thrasher
7 years ago
This code change bothers me as it looks to me like it opens the door for undue greater influnace from developers and other special interests and greatly reduces or eliminates the influence that the neighborhood associations have. I also don't think it will increase the influence of so called under represented individual residents of the city as they don't use the means available to them now to voice their opinion regarding city council decisions that affect them
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Michael Myers
7 years ago
To maintain the diversity and cultural relevance of our distinct neighborhoods, retention on theses associations is critical.
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Rachel Brashear
7 years ago
STOP GENTRIFICATION
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Susan Stringer
7 years ago
As a member of a very active neighborhood association (Eliot NA)I believe the inclusivity of neighborhood associations is important and actually Possible and should not be dissolved
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Greg Dorros
7 years ago
The peoples voice is the cornerstone of democracy. Stop acting like the worlds dictators. This is Portland where we make changes together - not forced from above.
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Carol McCarthy
7 years ago
Neighborhood Associations strengthen the social fabric by providing a place for Portlanders to meet up and work together on issues primarily related to where they live. It is hard to imagine a better system for this important purpose.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Neighborhood associations are critical to the community engagement and provide important communication to the Portland City Council.
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Susan Bradley
7 years ago
Neighborhood Associations have given Portland its many distinctive neighborhoods. They are critical to the continuing vibrancy and community engagement of our city.
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Bob Warner
7 years ago
Too much government interference in our lives. FREEDOM
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Dennis Kennedy
7 years ago
When I moved to Portland, the local Neighborhood Association helped me become an active concerned citizen. It would be ashamed to destroy such a helpful arm of local government.
The neighborhoods are kept stronger by the people being able to work together.
Neighborhood Associations are part of what make Portland great. Do not undermine them or the citizens of Portland.
I am very opposed to lessening the powers and importance of Portland’s neighborhood associations!
Especially with our current form of commission government, we really need neighborhood associations!
Neighborhood Associations play an important role. Changes in City Code should not marginalize NAs, rather create tools or mandates for them to increase participation from a larger or more diverse set of residents. Portland should not eliminate the single most effective and convenient channel for its residents to communicate with their City government.
Keep democracy in Portland. The people need a voice.
city resident for 44 years
As a neighborhood activist and association participant in 3 different neighborhoods since 1980, I highly value the current process and am firmly against the council proposal
We need to take back our city!
NA > City Hall
This code change bothers me as it looks to me like it opens the door for undue greater influnace from developers and other special interests and greatly reduces or eliminates the influence that the neighborhood associations have. I also don't think it will increase the influence of so called under represented individual residents of the city as they don't use the means available to them now to voice their opinion regarding city council decisions that affect them
To maintain the diversity and cultural relevance of our distinct neighborhoods, retention on theses associations is critical.
STOP GENTRIFICATION
As a member of a very active neighborhood association (Eliot NA)I believe the inclusivity of neighborhood associations is important and actually Possible and should not be dissolved
The peoples voice is the cornerstone of democracy. Stop acting like the worlds dictators. This is Portland where we make changes together - not forced from above.
Neighborhood Associations strengthen the social fabric by providing a place for Portlanders to meet up and work together on issues primarily related to where they live. It is hard to imagine a better system for this important purpose.
Neighborhood associations are critical to the community engagement and provide important communication to the Portland City Council.
Neighborhood Associations have given Portland its many distinctive neighborhoods. They are critical to the continuing vibrancy and community engagement of our city.
Too much government interference in our lives. FREEDOM
When I moved to Portland, the local Neighborhood Association helped me become an active concerned citizen. It would be ashamed to destroy such a helpful arm of local government.