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The Recovering Democrat's avatar

Zimmerman is such a bright spot in this council.

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Javier's avatar

If he hires someone like Kevin Dahlgren to run it, it just might work.

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Dx's avatar

Uh, as an east Portland resident (east of 205) Gateway looks like shit. I’d like to know about this rousing success he wants to replicate.

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Javier's avatar

So true. And don’t try to be a Good Samaritan in that neighborhood.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/good-samaritan-grocery-shopper-dad-killed-while-trying-stop-teen-robbery-suspects

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Dx's avatar

The city has actively created a disaster corridor and you just concisely named them all. That bottle drop is fentanyl central. They’ve demolished this entire area. And they refuse to stop.

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Ann's avatar
8dEdited

Last July I inquired about this “ clean up” in the gateway area and was told it was a pilot project the gateway area management district. I asked specifically about the garbage site The Bottle Drop and surprise surprise it wasn’t included… the area I witnessed being addressed was the 122nd/Burnside max area including the lit thst houses the tiny home village. It fizzled out weeks later so the gas station is still enclosed in fencing and the clean their area of sidewalk that the garbage blows over onto their property. Did I mention this was a pilot project? That’s political speak for temporary bandaid purely meant for optics but if you are a frequenter or inhabitant of the area you know it’s resorted back to the same ‘ol same ‘ol once it ceased operation. The area was just ordered to hunker down the other early eve because of a shooting and shooter on the loose— now in custody thanks to PPB. But as long as the enablers enable, the county deals out unaccountable funds to ngos and policy doesn’t change coupled with a concentration of crime and criddler attractors like The Bottle Drop on 122/Glisan, the Blackburn building, the low security max line, the agitators living around the tiny homes and the open drug dealing and use to name a few Gateway will never rise to the “ Glowing future of Portland” that the political predecessors had envisioned. As a life long resident in an adjoining area that’s not immune to any of this as it just spills over given time and no intervention, I see this area as the new “3rd and Burn”.

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