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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

News Council Settles On Block U For Homeless Center

Posted by Matt Davis on Wed, Mar 5 at 2:11 PM

City Council voted 4-0 this morning to site an access center for the homeless on block U in Old Town, outside Union Station. Alright that’s it, move along people. The show’s over. Nothing more to see here…

If for some reason the center can’t be developed on block U, council also voted to keep block 25 as a fallback option. City Commissioner Erik Sten had originally proposed to site the center on block 25 before outspoken neighborhood opposition forced a compromise:blockupeople.jpg
Homeless Center Stakeholders, clockwise from top left:Kathryn Krygier, former PDC staffer and now planning consultant, working for Chinatown businessman Louis Lee; Stephen Ying, president of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; Alexander Mace, resident of the Old Town Lofts, opposite Block 25; Erik Sten, outgoing city commissioner…

Most community members were reluctant to include block 25 in today’s resolution as a fallback measure, and Mayor Tom Potter even drafted an amended resolution, removing that paragraph. But commissioner Sten said he wanted to keep block 25 on the table in order to “hold people’s feet to the fire.”

He said “creating the impression that all somebody has to do is kill block U to derail this entire process, I think, is an invitation to some of those who are hostile to this center to come up with a way to do that.

Sten said he wanted council to send a clear message to the community that if it didn’t move to support block U, block 25 would be back on the table quickly. He also told council this morning he hadn’t originally proposed block U because PDC had told him that block wasn’t available. It was only after the Chinese community put up such a fight over block 25 that block U became an option, he said.

Sten also had harsh words for property developer John Beardsley, whose back-of-a-napkin eleventh-hour proposal to site a center on an alternative block, was turned down by PDC two weeks ago. Sten accused Beardsley’s proposal of being “bogus.”

Commissioner Randy Leonard said once Sten and Potter leave council he promises to shepherd the center through. “I won’t tolerate any game-playing,” he said.

The site is scheduled to be turned over to the Housing Authority of Portland for development in June. Hopefully we can get hold of the plans, pretty soon.

“This is something Portland has needed since the ’80s,” said Sten.

It’s been fascinating to watch the process play out.

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