Saturday, January 17, 2015

Changes in Old Town

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Albertson's will shutter State Street store in February The Lake Oswego Review  (January 15, 2015)  reports that the Albertsons sto...

More to read

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Don't forget to check out the " LO Scorecard " blog for what's happening inside City Hall.  You won't find this kind ...

Heavenly

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May this video bring beauty to your day.   Adam Simmons:   St. John's Bridge 2015 Click on image for video link.

Where the kids are

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Milwaukie: Down The Road, On The Rise MetroParent, September, 2014  By Courtney Sherwood  Speed through Milwaukie on Highway 99E a...
Friday, January 16, 2015

How Lake Oswego will develop

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The compact shopping district downtown has been in the East End Redevelopment Design from the beginning.  The original 1986 plan adopted by ...

If everyone isn't talking, the best ideas aren't heard

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West Linners are now part of the anti-Metro/density/smart growth backlash Even people who welcomed the Metro grant to revitalize the Arch ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

North Anchor comments wanted

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The Lake Oswego Redevelopment Agency is asking the public to weigh in on what they do and don't want to see happen with the North Anchor...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Cities of the future?

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From The Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2014:   They're Tracking You When You Turn Out The Light  Municipal Sensor Networks Measur...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

About trees 1 & 2

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About Trees: 1 File this under "right tree, right place."  These are some pretty  nasty trees.  Anything more that I'd have ...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Boring's wish

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Boring's Quest in 2015 With half of its land inside the Metro boundaries and half outside, life in Boring can sometimes be confusing...

Go ahead, throw it out!

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Seattle has officially become a nanny state.   All the good places are going crazy.  It's like watching your favorite pro baseball playe...
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The soul-sapping death of smart cities

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Jane Jacobs is often heralded as the planning world's heroine - the woman with determination and grit who saved Greenwich Village from b...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Our future is tied to the past

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Left:  The Richard Martin House, Lake Oswego, Designed by James Van Evera Bailey Status:  Gone Below are excerpts of the comm...

Home building in 1949

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How to Build an Igloo CITYLAB  January 6, 2015  Mike Byrnes With the first snowfall of 2015 arriving along parts of the U.S. east coast t...