Comments on: Grants ready land for building /news/2009/12/22/grants-ready-land-for-building/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:10:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 By: Jim Ourada /news/2009/12/22/grants-ready-land-for-building/#comment-7800 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:10:33 +0000 /?p=44698#comment-7800 … “Washington County planners are looking at ways to connect the growing Aloha-Reedville area near Hillsboro with popular transit corridors. A grant would help planners determine how residents want the area to develop and then write plans to help get them there, said Andrea Vannelli, senior planner with the county.”

That’s not how Hillsboro sees it. In this document: on page 260, Hillsboro planners explicitly state that the purpose of the grant request is to seek annexation of “their” part of the Aloha-Reedville community within 5 years.

Based on this kind of underhanded, conniving piracy, I don’t think the grants are a very good idea. Better to use the funds for something useful, like patching some pot holes!

]]> By: Translating grant applications « Daily Journal of Commerce /news/2009/12/22/grants-ready-land-for-building/#comment-7739 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:03:22 +0000 /?p=44698#comment-7739 […] Grants ready land for building » Metro is making $3.5 million in grants available to help cities and counties prepare for development. Twenty-six municipalities have applied, asking for a total of $6.8 million. Read more […]

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