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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 (adjustment) – pending               
Address: 7114 N. Mohawk Ave.
Applicant: Bill Steuwer
Owner: Steuwer Revocable Family Trust

The applicant is seeking allowance of a parking space within the 10-foot front setback.

Type 2 procedure (design review) – pending
Address: 127 S.W. Salmon St.
Applicant: Heather McGrath of LRS Architects
Owner: 121 SW Salmon St Corp.

Plans call for adding an exterior pergola on the third-floor roof terrace. The proposed 11-foot-tall pergola would be 12 feet by 32 feet. There would be steel, 8-inch-by-8-inch posts, a bronze color frame with automatic louvers, weather sensors, integrated gutters, LED downlights, an overhead heater, and exterior outlets.

Type 1 procedure (historic resource review) – pending
Address: 3030 S.W. Second Ave.
Applicant: Joseph Doucette of Cedarwood Waldorf School
Owner: Western Valley Waldorf Association

The proposal calls for installing one flat, aluminum, non-illuminated sign on the retaining wall, at the school’s entrance.

Type 1 procedure (historic resource review) – pending
Address: right of way
Applicant: Charles Brucker of PLACE
Owner: not listed

The project calls for the construction of a new Portland firefighters memorial adjacent to the historic David Campbell Memorial. Exterior plaza improvements would include seating, ADA access and stormwater management. The work would also involve minor restoration and repair of the existing memorial as the budget allows. Stormwater runoff would collect into a pipe and connect to a catch basin at Southwest 18th Avenue.

Type 2 procedure (design review) – pending
Address: 333 S.W. Oak St.
Applicant: Kevin Saxton of KASA Architects
Owner: Oak Associates Ltd. Partnership

The proposal is for a renovation (interior and exterior) of 333 Oak Apartments. The work would include replacing windows on the second through 10th floors, waterproofing, painting, replacing most mechanical systems, replacing water supply lines to the residential units and partially replacing the waste lines, reconfiguring a portion of the ground-floor facade in order to accommodate a new electrical room with all new gear and meters, and remodeling the eastern portion of the ground floor to create a new community room and office spaces. The window replacements and ground-floor facade reconfiguration are subject to design review.

Early assistance – application
Address: 97201 zip code (near the intersection of Southwest 18th Avenue and Mill Street Terrace)
Applicant: Bradley Shaw of Lionscove of Redmond, Washington
Owner: Lionscove Fund I LLC of Bellevue, Washington

Two lots are listed in the 2023 Buildable Lands Inventory (BLI) as underutilized. The initial development proposal is for construction of a 17-unit multifamily building with approximately 18,254 square feet of rentable space.

Early assistance – pending
Address: 4920 N.E. 42nd Ave. 
Applicant: Lorraine Guthrie of Lorraine Guthrie Architect
Owner: Pequenitos Child Care

Plans call for constructing a new building for day care use on the same site as the existing building.

Source: Portland Permitting & Development 

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