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Fall Meeting Notice When: Mon Nov 18, 2024 7PM-9PM Where: Moose Lodge 16411 NE Halsey St Get Map!

Everyone's Invited

Join Your Neighbors. Get involved. Make a difference!

Save the date
Be sure to save Monday Nov 18th at 7PM for the Wilkes East Neighborhood 2024 Fall Meeting being held at the Moose Lodge, 16411 NE Halsey St

Agenda

• WENA Board Elections
• Cook Plaza Homeless Center
• Habitat for Humanity
• Spring Cleanup Volunteers Needed
• Neighborhood news and more!

Download the Summer 2024 meeting minutes here!

Download the Fall 2024 meeting agenda here!

Who should attend?
Participation is open to all residents who live, own property or a business, organization, church or government agency within our boundaries

Be Part Of Your Community. Plan To Attend.

Watch for these red & white Meeting Signs the week before our meeting. The signs were purchased with assistance of the City of Gresham Neighborhood Grant Program, and with volunteer hours to set them out and retrieve them. Signs Now NW also made a generous contribution to this project.

Mark your calendar. See you there!

Questions or comments?
Contact Wilkes East Neighborhood by email at info@wilkeseastna.org, or by postal mail to: Wilkes East Neighborhood, 17104 NE Oregon St, Portland Oregon 97230

Fall 2024 Newsletter "Diversity, Harmony, Community - Together 'WE' can make a difference!”

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Fall 2024 Newsletter Inside This Issue: Cook Plaza Homeless Center Wilkes East Land Use Update SnowCap Communitiy Charities Upriver Village, Age-In-Place WENA Board Elections Nov 18th

Download your copy here. (includes active web links)

¡Descargue nuestro boletín en español aquí!. (incluye enlaces web activos)

Newsletters are a regular publication of the Wilkes East Neighborhood Association. They are hand-delivered to over 1,500 residences and businesses in our area 3 times per year, timed to correspond with our general meetings.

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Adjecent to 70 Unit Family Housing By Janet Unruh Wilkes East Neighbor

Cook Plaza, Click to enlarge

I have a generally positive view of humanity, and I think that every person has something to offer. But we have a homeless problem in the U.S. and the Portland metro area specifically, that is getting worse as time goes by. Enter JOHS, Joint Office of Homeless Services[1].

Gresham's Homeless
Gresham doesn’t have a big homeless problem, according to JOHS. As of January 2022, there were 48 unsheltered individuals (according to the point-in-time street count). In January 2023, there were 33 unsheltered individuals, a decrease in the numbers[2]. This is a good trend, though I couldn’t find updated data as of January 2024.
The City of Gresham has a Homeless Services department whose employees go out and contact the homeless directly and offer immediate help. This includes rent assistance, which is funded by JOHS. As of May 2024, JOHS provided permanent housing to 84 households, over 170 people, including children in Gresham. For 2025, the funding for housing and staff have been doubled[3].

(If you don't see the full article below, Click "Here")

By Greg Hartung
Land Use Co-Chair

Hello members of our Wilkes East Neighborhood Association. The Wilkes East Neighborhood Association board regularly receives land use plans from the City of Gresham to notify us of land use projects within or proximity to the Wilkes East neighborhood boundaries.

Pre-application PRE-24-00239 16651 NE WASCO ST PORTLAND, OR 97230. Application date 4/19/2024: Proposed standard partition for the creation of (2) parent parcels, one of which is proposed as a flag lot. They are each proposed to contain a quadplex, a permitted housing type in this zone. Current zoning Residential 7 LDR7. Once finalized a MHLD (Middle Housing Land Division) will be applied for. Demolition permit DEMO-24-00044 was issued on 02/12/2024 to remove a single-family home and wooden shed from the property.

Proposed lot partition. Click to enlarge

Demolished lot. Click to enlarge

Design review DR 23-00425 NE Glisan Habitat for Humanity project.
Location 17640 NE Glisan Portland, Or 97230 (across from Nadaka Nature Park). This is a development of 20 two-story dwelling units arranged in 10 duplex buildings with 28 parking spaces, landscape and open spaces. Lot consolidation of 17616 and 17636 NE Glisan was required to form one lot of 17640 NE Glisan. Total land size is 1.41 acre. Tree removal and land clearing has begun. There will be several mature trees in the rear of the property that will be preserved as part of the open space. Street side improvement will include landscaping. Watch for street side improvements and heavy construction equipment.

Architect rendering. Click to enlarge

Demolished lot. Click to enlarge

For these and other public records,
Please visit https://greshamor-energovweb.tylerhost.net. You do not need to create or register an account to access project files. To search for project files and public records: Click on the search icon. In the screen that loads, type in the Plan case number in the search field and click on the search button. The page will reload with the results of the search, including highlighted direct links to cases. Click on the highlighted link for the Plan case. In the page that loads, click on the Attachments tab to view project files.

You can also view detailed instructions on how to search for public records. Website: https://greshamoregon.gov/workarea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=13448

If you have any questions about accessing the files online or any projects, please contact PlanningTech@GreshamOregon.gov

Summer 2024 Newsletter "Diversity, Harmony, Community - Together 'WE' can make a difference!”

Read it now!

Summer 2024 Newsletter Inside This Issue: From Chicago to West Gresham Wilkes East Land Use Update Housing vs Trees in Gresham WeShine Village Update Meet the Tooth Taxi Volunteer (With updated school start and end times!)

Download your copy here. (includes active web links)

¡Descargue nuestro boletín en español aquí!. (incluye enlaces web activos)

Newsletters are a regular publication of the Wilkes East Neighborhood Association. They are hand-delivered to over 1,500 residences and businesses in our area 3 times per year, timed to correspond with our general meetings.

View archive   |   Policy & Ad Rates

By Janet Unruh, Wilkes East neighbor

For nature lovers who hate to see the land scraped bare for housing developments, our best hope is that soon, it will no longer be profitable for developers to build new housing. This is our best hope because the city turns a deaf ear to the pleas of residents to stop, or at least reduce the size of new developments.

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