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?
We walk in Lents park, visit the local book nooks to help keep books in them and sometimes find books there. We visit neighbors and share plants, vegetables and holiday treats. We bring food and warm clothes and tolietries to people in tents on path and see if they are need anything in particular. We walk to farmers market and to see the (now gone) goats. We walk to Lents and Holgate max station and the taqueria. We did walk to Working Class Acupuncture and to antique store (both now gone). We shop at area stores except Freddies, which is gone.
What kinds of businesses are important to you? What kinds of businesses would you like to have added to the neighborhood?
I do not believe that there needs to be any more businesses in this development. There is plenty of new businesses on 92nd and Foster and too much commercial interests takes a toll on neighborhoods. We have enough and do NOT need more. This creates more poverty and Lents cannot take more poverty.
What kind of open public space do you imagine here? What could it be used for (e.g., Lents International Farmers Market)?
I imagine a landscaped courtyard, with a covered area and seating that is open to music and the farmers market. A cob design, such as People's food co-op would be a nice, low impact design.
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?
I do not want to see any more market rate units. None. There is enough of these on 92nd and Foster and these do not represent the residents of Lents. The "affordable" ones are not affordable for the people of Lents either. The Lents MFI would be far different from a city wide MFI and should be accounted for. The residents of Lents needs low income and no income housing units. There also needs to be more family housing for low income families that struggle to afford rent in Portland and its rising rents. More businesses in this area only makes this struggle even greater. I also imagine a senior housing unit with a childcare facility in the same building.
What are your top priorities for Prosper Portland's investment in this development?
Create open spaces for neighborhood events
I have another priority (let us know below)
Create affordable housing units
Additional parking for businesses and residents
If one of your priorities was "Other" please describe it:
Deliver no income to very low income housing with parking.
What additional equitable development goals are important to you?
Don't block sidewalks from foot traffic as was done on 92nd and Foster with debris. I would urge not only outreach to community organizations but actually listening and implementing these recommendations and involving groups like Rose to be on board deciding what is built.