Stop Portland City Council from Ignoring Neighborhood Associations

The purported justification for the Code change does not hold water. You don’t expand civic engagement by individuals and groups by restricting it for others. Encouraging engagement is a laudable goal, but this is clearly meant to dilute the influence of neighborhood associations rather than achieving that goal.

Stop trying to dictate every aspect of the workings of this city!

I have attended and recorded video at Neighborhood Association meetings. They are not elitist, they are in fact real Democracy in action. Any ne is welcome at the meetings and they attend to the concerns of the neighbors with closer attention than the City Council. Abolishing Neigborhood Associations is idiotic, especially now that so many properties are owned and managed by out-of- state corporations and even foreign owners. The city should support NAs not destroy them!

I love my Overlook Neighborhood Association! They are an integral part of life here, wonderful as negotiators, intermediary, and information distributors.

I believe the neighborhood associations serve a vital function that the proposed new rules would help clear the way for developers to have even more leeway with less oversight or concern for the long term effects of development

Much of Portland's attraction as a growing metropolus resides in its unique and very liveable neighborhoods. Neighborhood associations play a critical role in allowing the voices of homeowners and tenants to be heard, increasing our democracy.

We need our neighborhood associations, the diverse voices, the opportunity to speak up from the position of people living in particular areas of the city! Thank you for keeping these teams of people as important to the health of community.

There is no need to drop neighborhood associations from current city code. Instead, I propose adding language to code to encourage neighborhood associations to include here to under represented groups.

Keep the neighborhood associations by all means, but don't forget that tenants are your neighbors too.

NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS ARE CRITICAL TO PORTLAND BEING RUN BY ITS OWN CITIZENS & NOT WALL STREET, BLACKSTONE, ETC.

Neighborhood association input into city government is vital to our communities!

Hi, as a renter I owed a huge debt to the folks in the neighborhood who went to meetings, cleaned things up, organized stuff. I was totally not invested as I was impermanent, but I benefitted from all their work and representation of our community. The developers had no stake in the neighborhood except to make money! Thank you neighborhood associations, hope i can pay it forward.

Do not erase neighborhood associations!

Associations keep property values up by maintaining agreed upon standards by home owners. The state is trying to strong arm their way into Your neighborhood by overriding you and your neighbors’ say.

Keep our Neighborhood Associations active. Do not allow them to be done away with

It is very important to every Portlander to keep our Neighborhood Associations.

Please do not dismantle the Neighborhood Assiciations! It is our only voice in a city that increasingly does whatever is new and shiny in urban planning. I go to the SMILE meetings often as they are welcoming and I feel they have helped give our residents and business owners a chance to contribute to the conversation. Without the NA, it will be one-sided. But that seems to be what Portland wants.

Bad idea.

Please keep our neighborhood Associations. It's important. Thank you.

Curtailing neighborhood associations within PDX is bad policy.