What matters most to the Lents neighborhood in its next phase of development?
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What is your relationship to the Lents neighborhood? Choose all that apply (hold down the Ctrl key on your PC or Command on your Mac to select multiple items).
What activities do you, your family, and/or friends like to do in Lents?
Farmer's Market, Out to dinner (Flipside, Zoiglhaus, El Pato Feliz) biking, walking, Lents Park, Dog Park, Bloomington Park, Ed Bennedict Park, community events, occasional drink at a bar (Eagle Eye, Zoiglhaus, Flipside), play at school playgrounds on the weekends and/summer.
What kinds of businesses are important to you? What kinds of businesses would you like to have added to the neighborhood?
I really love having more places to eat in the neighborhood. I would like to see more small businesses. I would LOVE to have a grocery store - Trader Joes, a co-op, New Seasons, Natural Grocers, or even Fred Meyer.
What kind of open public space do you imagine here? What could it be used for (e.g., Lents International Farmers Market)?
Farmer's Market, park, affordable public housing, library
What kind of housing do you imagine here? Do you want to see a mix of affordable housing units and market rate units? Do you want to see a mix of units to accommodate families of all sizes?
More affordable housing! As everyone knows, the price of housing in this city has gone up exponentially in the last 10 years. This is going to be a city for the upper middle class and rich exclusively if there aren't significant efforts from many angles to address the problem.
What are your top priorities for Prosper Portland's investment in this development?
Create affordable housing units
Support local neighborhood small businesses through commercial space renovations
Programmed events in public spaces, install public art
Create open spaces for neighborhood events
If one of your priorities was "Other" please describe it:
No response.What additional equitable development goals are important to you?
Outreach to community organizations regarding housing opportunities, protecting neighbors from diesel and other pollution during construction