Up Sucker Creek

About the future of Lake Oswego and suburbs everywhere.

Saturday, October 24, 2015

EPA extends power over states

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For the second time in the last few months, a sizable group of states have filed suit against th EPA.  In each case, the plaintiffs assert t...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

An Aesop's Fable for our times

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Aesop's Fables by  Aesop “THE MAN AND THE WOOD” A Man came into a Wood one day with an axe in his hand, and begged all the Trees t...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Who sets stormwater policy in Lake Oswego?

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Piling on regulations while no one is looking Housing in Lake Oswego will never be the same. If it's expensive now, it will be much ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Rainy season water disposal

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Who own's the rain? The City already held a workshop for design professionals (landscape architects, geotechnical engineers, arch...

Those darned whiteflies!

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I really hate it when the whiteflies follow me into the car - I can't close my car door fast enough to keep a few from getting in.  Eve...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

At the barbershop

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Gossip.  News.  Debates.  Where do you go to talk? The barbershop, the beauty parlour, the neighborhood pub...these are places you go t...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Thoughts on the SWEA

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What belongs in an Employment District?   That's kind of like asking, "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?"  It's hard...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Sixth Circuit Court expands WOTUS injunction to nation

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On Friday, the injunction against the new Clean Water Act Rule, Waters The United States, was expanded to the entire nation.  Oregon cannot...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

How would you spend $70 million of TIF debt?

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High fives to Lake Oswegans who rejected fluff and chose substance. Although I was tempted, I did not attend a session in City Hall where ...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Multi-dwelling code not ready for prime time

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City Council says "No" to Multi-Dwelling Development A discussion of what multi-dwelling developments are is included in a previ...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Food grows up on CO2

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Newsflash ! Plants grow better with increased CO2! More articles tell of the emerging vertical farming industry in the U.S. and the wor...

A ground breaking groundbreaking

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What if you went to a groundbreaking,  only to find a hole in the ground?    The developer and investors of Block 137 may win thei...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Block 137: One step forward, one step back

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Taking steps toward heaven or hell?  The picture changes depending which side of the street one is standing on.  What is the developer doing...
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Monday, October 5, 2015

Where will redevelopment go next?

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No bureaucracy tries to work itself out of existance.   Ponder, this: (This meeting was last week - text below has been edited to reflect...
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