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A weekly list of highlights from commercial land use review activity in Portland by Permitting & Development in the prior week.

Type 2 procedure – pendingÌý Ìý ÌýÌý
Address: 1126 SW 18th Ave.
Applicant: Nicholas Clark of Whoop Whoop LLCÌý
Owner: Whoop Whoop LLC

The project team is proposing to repair an existing wooden stair. The stairs are used for emergency egress only. The repairs include new footings, replacement of existing posts and cross bracing, and a new guard rail bracing on top landing.

Early assistance – pending
Address: 4421 NE Columbia Blvd.
Applicants: Joseph Purkey and Crystal Glanz-Kreutz of Convergence Architecture
Owner: TriMet

The TriMet Columbia Operations Facility Project includes the demolition of existing structures, new grading, paving and construction of a new bus operations facility campus that will include fuel and wash stations, operations and maintenance buildings, bus storage yard, employee parking, and associated utilities, stormwater management and landscaping.

Early assistance – pendingÌý Ìý
Address: Northeast Alberta Street (within the 97211 zip code)
Applicant: Dave Mojica of Scott Edwards Architecture
Owner: Alberta Art House LLC of Newport Beach, California

Plans call for 8 three-story townhouse units with parking on grade. This is a home ownership model for those up to 65 percent area median income.

Pre-application conference – applicationÌý Ìý
Address: 11547 NE Glisan St.
Applicant: Edward Radulescu of EPR Design
Owner: Halo Holdings LLC

The proposal calls for construction of a new detached building that will be a 30-room, 50-bed, residential care facility with a memory care endorsement. The north side of the site will be partitioned to create a lot that will be used to construct a four-unit townhouse project fronting Northeast Oregon Street.

Early assistance – pendingÌý Ìý
Address: 1607 NE 41st Ave.
Applicant: Garner Moody of Lloyd Development LLC
Owner: Snyder Family Trust

The project would remodel the existing building into an indoor seating area and bar. Nine food carts will be installed where the current parking is located.

Type 3 procedure (historic resource review with modifications) – pendingÌý Ìý
Address: 1806 NE 12th Ave.
Applicant: Ralph Tahran of Tahran Architecture & Planning
Owner: Main Street Development Inc.

Plans call for a new 12,336 square foot development located on a 5,000-square-foot parcel of land, consisting of a fourplex divided into 2 two-unit structures. All four units access Northeast Schuyler Street with a central maneuvering courtyard which accesses four internal-facing garages. The project team is requesting the transfer of 2,336 square feet of additional floor area from an adjacent property. One modification is requested to the standard setbacks and an adjustment to the minimum density is also requested.

Early assistance – applicationÌý ÌýÌý
Address: 5228 NE Hoyt St.
Applicant: Trent Thelen of ZGF Architects
Owner: Providence Health & Services-Oregon of Renton, Washington

The project is a proposed new medical facility at the Providence Portland Medical Campus in Northeast Portland. The building as proposed is approximately 82,650 gross square feet and three stories, plus a mechanical penthouse. The building program is outpatient and inpatient behavioral health services.

ÌýType 1 procedure (design review)Ìý– pendingÌý Ìý
Address: 5331 S. Macadam Ave.
Applicant: Matthew Stoll of Woofter Bolch Architecture
Owner: WL-SKB Water Tower Owner LLC

The tenant (Fortis Construction) of the first-floor suite would like to add one building-mounted sign, approximately 22 square feet, that identifies their business, to the east of their main entry door. The building owner previously received design review approval for two tenant signs, 16.5 square feet each, over the entrance canopy. The two suites were previously consolidated into one suite and one entrance, so the tenant is requesting to change the approved location and combine the signage area. The sign has backlit acrylic letters and a logo in a painted metal housing.

ÌýEarly assistance – applicationÌýÌý
Address: Southwest Old Orchard Road (within the 97201 zip code)
Applicant: Robin Wilcox of Portland Parks & Recreation
Owner: city of Portland

The planned project will update the equipment in the existing playground at Portland Heights Park. The existing footprint of the playground may expand into the currently identified open space and conservation zone to accommodate modern equipment fall zones.

ÌýType 3 procedure (conditional use) – pendingÌý ÌýÌý
Address: 1390 SE 122nd Ave.Ìý
Applicant: Brian Kimura of BK Architecture
Owner: Center for Intercultural Organizing

The project team is seeking approval to convert the existing office condo space to a children’s daycare. The proposed daycare space occupies roughly half of the commercial condo building and will occupy the ground floor and half-sunken basement. The upper floor is 1,392 square feet and the lower floor is 1,392 square feet. Outdoor play space will utilize the open property to the south (also listed as 1390 SE 122nd Ave). The project is an interior tenant improvement and will not add any additional building footprint to the property.

ÌýType 1x procedure (environmental review) – pendingÌý ÌýÌý
Address: North Kelley Point Park Road (within the 97203 zip code)
Applicant: Sarah Carlton of Portland Parks & Recreation
Owner: city of Portland

Portland Parks & Recreation is seeking approval for an environmental review for the Kelley Point Park Trail, a paved 2,000-foot section extension of the North Portland Greenway Trail (currently terminating at an undercrossing at North Marine Drive) into the city of Portland’s Kelley Point Park. The trail design will ensure that runoff water and drainage from the trail is collected in a stabilized area or sediment basin. Natural drainage patterns will not be disrupted or moved. The design of these drainage ways will ensure that runoff volume and velocity is handled without risk of erosion or sedimentation.

ÌýSource: Portland Permitting & DevelopmentÌý

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