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Fresh design advice is pending for a long-planned affordable housing project on the former Safari Showclub site in Southeast Portland.

The Portland Housing Bureau for nearly three years has sought redevelopment of the parcel at 3000 S.E. Powell Blvd., near Cleveland High School. In July 2019, a second design advice hearing took place for the project, which then was proposed as a five-story building with 180 residential units as well as 30 parking spaces for motor vehicles.

However, a , with applicant Dave Otte of Holst Architecture, was scheduled to take place on Wednesday. The latest submittal calls for a single building partially five stories and partially four stories, with 210 units. Also, there would be 40 parking spaces. The building would have four levels of wood framing above a single level of post-tensioned concrete. There would be approximately 7,000 square feet of active ground-level space.

Drawings submitted by Holst Architecture for developer Home Forward suggest the latest iteration would be an H-shaped structure. The project team is scheduled to appear before the Portland Design Commission on March 19.

Vehicle parking would be on the property’s south side, with accessibility from Southeast 31st Avenue.

Money for the project is coming from a $258 million affordable housing bond approved by voters in 2016.