Developer Threatened to Sue City for "Millions" Over Parking Requirements

Read the letter from Dennis Sackhoff's attorney

News  Portland City Council moved forward last night with new new parking requirements for apartment buildings, adding an amendment by Commissioner Nick Fish that would trigger parking minimums for buildings with more than 30 units.

But as    More

 

Friday, April 5, 2013 by AARON MESH

City Council Won't Make Developer Add Parking on Division Street

UPDATE: Council passes amendments, doesn't force Sackhoff to comply

News UPDATE, 8:30 pm: Portland City Council passed an amendment to heighten new requirements for apartment-building parking by a 4-1 vote tonight, with Commissioner Dan Saltzman voting no.
It also passed several other amendments. But it did not pass an emergency ordinance that would have required developer Dennis Sackhoff to add parking to his half-finished Divisi...   More

 

Thursday, April 4, 2013 by AARON MESH

Son of Blazers' Analyst Mike Rice Fired From Rutgers for Violence, Anti-Gay Slurs

News Trail Blazers television commentator Mike Rice says the darndest things during game broadcasts. His son, Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, Jr., screamed anti-gay slurs at his players during practice.

So, as of today, the younger Rice is no longer Rutgers' basketball coach.

The New Jersey university    More

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by AARON MESH

David Bragdon Takes Transit Job in New York City

News  David Bragdon is taking to the subway.

The former Metro Council president has a new gig: executive director of Transit Center, Inc., a New York City nonprofit that promotes public transportation with tax breaks for commuters.
Bragdon    More

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by AARON MESH

Paranoid Parking

Mayor Charlie Hales’ plan to change rules on big apartments has everyone fired up.

News When smoke drifted out of the halted construction site on Southeast Division Street early March 29, the owner of nearby Victory Bar called the cops. It wasn’t his first call about the unfinish   More

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 AARON MESH

New York City Imitates Portland by Mandating Sick Leave

News If it's hip in Portland, New York City is sure to copy. First it was artisanal unemployment; then Andy Ricker's Thai food.

Now the Big Ap...   More

 

Friday, March 29, 2013 by AARON MESH

UPDATED: Steve Novick Wants to Make Portland Arts Tax a Piggyback Tax

News  Portland City Council on Wednesday directed the city revenue bureau to look for more potential changes to the arts tax.

City Commissioner Steve Novick has one in mind: He wants to change the v...   More

 

Thursday, March 28, 2013 by AARON MESH

Take It Inside

The city’s latest bar brawl with the OLCC: how late can patios stay open?

News Thomas Winston Morgan marched across Southeast Yamhill Street on a summer night in 2011 in a T-shirt, boxer shorts and flip-flops, and demanded the birthday party stop. The laughing voices comin   More

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 AARON MESH

Developers Pull Out of Grove Hotel Deal

City has already spent $3.7 million on the Chinatown building

News The Grove Hotel, a project that Portland Development Commission officials pitched as pivotal to redeveloping Old Town-Chinatown, is on life support after the private developers refused to secure collateral for $900,000 in public l...   More

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 by AARON MESH

Both Sides of Fluoride Debate Create More Parody Pages

News  It must be something in the water: Neither side on the May fluoridation ballot measure can resist setting up parody social-media sites mocking the opposition's message.

For the second time in two months, someone has set up a decoy Facebook ...   More

 

Monday, March 25, 2013 by AARON MESH