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

Early assistance – application                    
Address: 5420 S.E. 82nd Ave.
Applicant: John Szot of Portland 
Owner: Yu Investments LLC

Plans call for construction of a 5,000-square-foot retail facility. Stormwater would be managed via new facilities along Southeast 82nd Avenue and Insley Street.

Type 1 procedure (historic resource review) – pending
Address: 615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Applicant: Maya Foty of Architectural Resources Group
Owner: Lewis & Clark College

The applicant is proposing to install flashing above a garden wall adjacent to the historic M. Lloyd Frank Estate Manor House. It serves as the office of admissions for Lewis & Clark College. The wall is located to the north, with an occupied garage below the patio. The affected facade area measures slightly less than 50 square feet.

Early assistance – application
Address: 5924 S.E. 42nd Ave. 
Applicant: Auryn White of BAMA Architecture + Design
Owners: Larry and Lesa Stanley of Gresham

The proposal calls for exterior and interior alterations. Use would change from warehouse to retail.

Early assistance – application
Address: 1010 S.W. Gibbs St.
Applicant: Sinan Gumusoglu of Sinan Gumusoglu Architecture LLC of Tigard
Owner: SWS 1010 Gibbs LLC of Lake Oswego

The proposal calls for replacing the single-story commercial building with a four-story, 35-unit mixed-use structure.

Type 1x procedure (historic resource review) – pending
Address: 1010 N.W. Flanders St.
Applicant: Michael McLaughlin of Fluent Design
Owner: 1010 Flanders LLC of Albuquerque, New Mexico

Plans would involve the facade of the building at 327 N.W. 10th Avenue (referred to by many as the Sidecar Building), which is not considered a contributing resource but falls on the same property as 1010 N.W. Flanders – a historic landmark. Proposed modifications include alterations to the exterior (including storefront and garage door) and the addition of signage. Additionally, new paint would be applied and new planters added along the pedestrian right-of-way. The site is within a design overlay zone and falls within the Central City Plan District and River District. Design/​historic review is required due to the site’s location and designation as a historic landmark.

Early assistance – pending
Address: 240 S.E. Grand Ave.
Applicant: Pam Saftler of TVA Architects
Owner: Grand Opportunity LLC

The proposal is for construction of an eight-story, 120,000-square-foot building with 143 affordable housing units. The building would ascend to 84 feet as calculated by the zoning code. Construction would be type IA on levels 1-3 and type IIIA on levels 4-8. Nineteen ground-floor parking spaces would be accessible from Southeast Pine Street. Stormwater would be managed on-site via an eco-roof.

Pre-application conference – pending
Address: 9363 N. Columbia Blvd.
Applicant: Evan Callahan of Portland Parks & Recreation
Owner: city of Portland

Plans call for designing and constructing a bicyclist and pedestrian bridge, multiuse trail, and at-grade railroad crossing connecting Chimney Park to the St. Johns Landfill Bridge, in North Portland. The bridge would provide safe passage across Columbia Boulevard as well as access to existing and future regional trail connections to the north.

Early assistance – pending
Address: 1333 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Applicants: James Santana of Cairn Pacific and Kevin Valk of Holst Architecture
Owner: Holy Rosary Church of Portland

Holy Rosary Church and the Western Dominican Province have conducted an analysis of the density yield and design strategies for four properties under their control: blocks 62, 67, 68 and 211. On Block 68, a new building would replace three existing ones of service to the parish and community (the Rosary Center, Siena Hall and Aquinas Hall). Block 62 would gain affordable housing and Block 67 would gain market-rate housing. The interrelationship of the new buildings and the remainder of the Holy Rosary holdings have been modeled to show a campus master plan.

Source: Portland Permitting & Development 

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