Hooray! With the help of Mary Ann Aschenbrenner, I re-did my PlanGreen web site to incorporate my blog. You can now find it at http://plangreen.net.
Now that my web site is more user-friendly to me, I hope to be updating it more often. Thanks so much Mary Ann–a budding new web designer!
In Portland: A New Kind of City I, I argued that if Portland is to achieve some of its other policies in the Watershed Health and Environment chapter of Working Draft 1, Portland Comprehensive Plan, policies such as Biodiversity and Habitat Corridors, it is important for any policy on Vegetation to stress the importance of NATIVE vegetation–in part, because native species of insects, the base of the food chain, need native plants to survive.
I want to now draw your attention to policies under the “Design With Nature” section of the Urban Design and Development chapter–one of the sections with the greatest potential to lead to transformational design and a new kind of city.
Policy 5.45 Greening the built environment. Encourage the incorporation and preservation of large healthy trees, native trees, and other vegetation in development. 5.45.a. Prioritize integrating natural elements and systems, including trees, green spaces, and vegetated stormwater management systems, into centers.
Change Policy 5.45 and 5.45.a. to: 5.45 Encourage the preservation of existing large healthy trees and encourage the incorporation of native trees and other native vegetation into development. 5.45.a. Prioritize integrating natural elements and systems, including native trees, natural areas, and stormwater management systems utilizing native vegetation into centers.
Invasive English ivy and Himalayan blackberry growing along the Willamette River in February. Green is not always “green”!
My further comments on Policy 5.45: “Greening the built environment” should make clear that green is not always “green”. We have a number of trees and vegetation that actually threaten watershed health and community livability rather than benefit it. This policy needs to be more explicit on what is green.
I realize that with global warming, plant zones are changing. That doesn’t mean that we should be welcoming more alien ornamentals from all over the world. Rather, we might monitor the robustness of our native species and possibly look to bring in more species from areas of southern Oregon or northern California.
Policy 5.46 Commentary: (Policies in the Working Draft have commentaries on the left pages) Habitat and wildlife‐friendly design, promotes development that integrates green infrastructure, habitat‐and bird‐friendly design, and the use of appropriate, NON-INVASIVE PLANTS (emphasis mine) for pollinators. . .
Change to: Habitat and wildlife‐friendly design, promotes development that integrates green infrastructure, habitat‐and bird‐friendly design,and the use of native plants for pollinators and other native wildlife species.
My comments on Policy 5.46 Commentary: In Bringing Nature Home, Doug Tallamy cites numerous
Photo by Clay Ruth
The larvae of native insects need native plants to survive.
scientific studies (including his own) to show that even if some of our adult native insect species can use alien ornamental plants, their larvae cannot. Insects need NATIVE plant species to procreate the web of life. Since our native insects are the base of the food chain for birds and many other species of wildlife, they need native plants too. You need to define habitat, at least in part, as native vegetation—in both the commentary and the policies.
Policy 5.46. Habitat and wildlife-friendly design. Encourage habitat and wildlife-friendly neighborhood, site, and building design.
. . . 5.46.b. Encourage the incorporation of habitat into landscaping, sustainable stormwater facilities, and other features of the built environment.
Change 5.46.b to: In order to provide habitat, encourage the incorporation native vegetation into landscaping, sustainable stormwater facilities, and other features of the built environment.
Louv points out that all plants are not the same in their ability to support food webs.
I’ll rest my comments on Policy 5.46 with a quote from Richard Louv in his book The Nature Principle:
All plants are not the same. Unfortunately, all plants are not equal in their ability to support food webs. Food webs develop locally over thousands of generations, with each member of the web adapting to the particular traits of the other members of the web.
I also request that Portland add a definition of habitat in the Glossary that includes native vegetation.
I’m really not a one horse planner. I really care about so many other aspects of urban design and development. But I feel that it is so vitally important that Portland planners and designers recognize the importance of native vegetation in achieving the City’s goals. Unfortunately, such recognition does not appear to be the case at present. The landscape features along central Portland’s portion of the Willamette River are currently filled with alien ornamentals and its sustainable storm water facilities continue to be filled with them too. Portland has many LEED-rated buildings, but native plants are rare in their landscapes as well. And yet this Comprehensive Plan foresees far more landscape integrated into our built environment. It is critical to get the policy right and work with landscape architectural professionals and their schools so that we’ll have people competent to implement the policy.
I’ll have more comments on other sections of Working Draft 1, but for now I want to go out and promote this exciting document and get YOU to comment too! Thanks for doing such a great job on so many fronts, Portland planners!
. . . As of 2008, more people now live in cities than in the countryside, worldwide. This is a huge moment in human history. This means one of two things: either human connection to nature will continue to disintegrate, or this will lead to the beginning of a new kind of city, one with new kinds of workplaces and homes that actually connect people to nature. Richard Louv, Leaf Litter, Winter Solstice 2012
The Portland Comp Plan Working Draft 1 released in January, 2013 begins to envision that new kind of city for this “huge moment in history.” It includes a transportation network that aspires to integrate nature into neighborhoods through civic corridors, neighborhood greenways and habitat connections. By doing that it seeks to: 1) increase people’s access to the outdoors, 2) provide corridors for wildlife movement, and 3) catch and treat stormwater.Its Watershed Health and the Environment chapter encourages the protection/enhancement of natural systems and their role in promoting public health—as you might expect from a chapter with that heading. However the emphasis on “designing with nature” in both its Design and Development chapter and its Transportation chapter is what really sets this plan apart and makes it transformational. It puts Portland ahead of the curve in creating Louv’s new kind of city!
The fact that we have such wise and forward-thinking planners and advisory groups to create such a draft plan does NOT mean that the work is over, however. The devil is in the details! So, I hope that you will review those details, attend a community workshop or two, and add your thoughts. Below, I’m sharing some of my own comments on the Comp Plan Working Draft 1 in hopes that you will voice your support for them as well as develop your own points.
I was excited to see the draft Comp Plan promise (p,14) “encouraging building and site designs that have native plants and more permeable surfaces and mimic nature, so that pollutants stay out of rivers and streams.” Only once in the actual policies, however, is there any mention of native vegetation. And that one citation is followed by an exception big enough to let an area that could be a haven for more native wildlife—the west side of the Willamette River from the Steel to the Ross Island Bridges—stand as is: largely bereft of native vegetation.
It’s difficult to find native plants along the west side of the Willamette River from Steel Bridge to Ross Island Bridge
Policy 4.3 Vegetation. Protect, enhance and restore native AND OTHER BENEFICIAL (emphasis mine) vegetation in riparian corridors, wetlands, floodplains and upland areas.
Change to:
Policy 4.3 Vegetation. Protect, enhance and restore native vegetation throughout the landscape.
4.3a. Riparian Corridors, Wetlands, And Floodplains: Protect, enhance and restore native vegetation in critical wildlife areas such as riparian corridors, wetlands, and floodplains.
4.3b. Upland Areas: Protect and enhance native and other beneficial tree species. Restore the landscape with diverse native species including trees, shrubs and wildflowers.
My further comments on Policy 4.3: Since riparian corridors, wetlands, and floodplains are the most critical areas for wildlife they are the most important to be restored to predominantly native plants. What we plant from here on out along our rivers, streams and wetlands should be native. Remove “and other beneficial” vegetation from the policy.
Chair of the Department of Entomology at the University of Delaware, Douglas Tallamy, in his book Bringing Nature Home argues that if alien species were providing as many ecosystem services in their new homes as they did where they evolved, they would support about the same number of insect species in both areas—but they do not. He states:
For an alien species to contribute to the ecosystem it has invaded, it must interact with the other species in that ecosystem in the same ways that the species it has displaced interacted. . . This contribution is most likely when species have evolved together over long periods of time.
Tallamy’s slide show at Oregon Community Trees conference left community foresters committed to using native trees.
Upland areas could be separate. I would not argue against enhancing the lives of some non-invasive, non-native trees (such as our large old elms) via treatment. I’m not yet ready to maintain that all of the street trees the city plants should be native—only that many, many more of them should be. Tallamy keynoted an Oregon Community Trees conference last year where he made the same point I’m making–as well as a lasting impression on attendees involved with community trees. “When I talk about the value of biodiversity, he said, I am talking about a natural resource that is critical to our long-term persistence in North America.”
The Comp Plan needs to stress the need to plant more NATIVE trees and plants in upland areas too. See my next blog, Portland: A New Kind of City II for further comments on Working Draft 1 of the Portland Comp Plan.
I’m Mary Vogel and I’m speaking on behalf of myself and my Woman Business Enterprise, PlanGreen. Thank you for this opportunity to testify on Portland’s Legislative Agenda for 2013!
As most of you know studded tires cut road life in HALF in Oregon!!! I live in downtown Portland where my major forms of transportation are walking and biking, so I am able to see and hear the villains doing it—one click, click, click, clack, clack, clack at a time.
What I am suggesting is an additional point under the Transportation agenda on p. 36. That point is:
First, deal with a major and unnecessary cause of road wear & tear in Oregon by banning studded tires.
While data show that only 10% of Oregonians west of the Cascades use studded tires, I think they all commute into downtown Portland every weekday. It seems like every third car that passes me on my bike has them—raising the hair on the back of my neck with their aggressive sound. In the women over 50 age category, I may be one of the few who meet the level of “strong and fearless,” but I will admit that studded tires rattle my nerves and make me feel less safe. What they do to the pavement certainly makes the roads less safe for all cyclists.
So, not only do studded tires cost us a lot more in road maintenance, they cost us more in public health; they cost us more in carbon footprint; they cost us more in the livability of our cities. During a time of fiscal and climate crisis, to continue to allow studded tires is irresponsible!
Please ask the legislature to ban studded tires in Oregon! Add First, deal with a major and unnecessary cause of road wear & tear in Oregon by banning studded tires to your points under Modernize & Enhance Transportation Funding. Or make it a separate point under the city’s Transportation agenda. But please do this today as we are long overdue!
Thank you for your time!
Mary Vogel
PS If you have time to read more, I recommend:
As I explained in Part 1 of Bringing the Wild Back to the City, I’m trying to take members of the built environment community to the wild to show them how nature does things in ways that are often more efficient, elegant and pleasing to the eye than what we design. Last week, I was presented with an opportunity to put this knowledge into action. At a meeting on Portland’s NE Quadrant Plan last week, as I picked up the written comments of Audubon Society of Portland’s Conservation Director, Bob Sallinger, I was asked if I wanted to testify myself. At first, I declined, but after reading Bob’s comments, I was inspired to expand upon them.
Testimony to the NE Quadrant, Central City 2035 Stakeholders Advisory Committee - June 28, 2012
I’m testifying to endorse and expand upon the comments of Bob Sallinger (Audubon Society of Portland) on the SAC draft NE Quadrant Plan. I have several relevant affiliations, but I’m testifying only on behalf of myself and my Woman Business Enterprise, PlanGreen. I’m also an Audubon member who once played a role on its Conservation Committee. My comments are all aimed at increasing the ecosystem services of our landscapes, letting nature help us create infrastructure that is sustainable, efficient and aesthetically appealing. What’s in black, bold italic are Sallinger’s points. The rest is my expansion.
1. Protect undeveloped river banks and riparian buffers and add strong language to restore developed banks when redevelopment occurs. When I was writing an article for Urban Land on Portland as a model for waterfront redevelopment, one of the most impressive tools I downloaded was the Willamette Riverbank Design Notebook (done by a team chaired by Mike Abbaté, now Director of Portland Parks). I was thrilled to see a city trying to make room for other species–even in its most urban and urbanizing areas. This is a mark of true wisdom. Please reference and utilize this unique document during implementation phase.
2. Include specific targets for ecoroofs and other green infrastructure from the watershed plan. To this I would add that to truly follow through on Portland’s world class Watershed Management Plan, any ecoroofs, bioswales, raingardens, green walls,, parks, etc., need to use the landscape to provide far greater ecosystem services than those extant today. If we use NATIVE plant communities rather than the incipient invasive species, such as Nandina, that are so greatly overused in bioswales on Portland’s green streets today, we will provide habitat for the base of the food chain, our native insects. Insects are so important, not only for all the jobs they do–like pollination and detritus decomposition–but as food for the birds that provide us with additional services in keeping a balanced urban ecosystem–in addition to the beauty and delight that they provide us.
3. Reference the tree targets in the Urban Forestry Plan. Again, I believe that much more effort should be put to planting NATIVE trees. If sidewalk uplift is a potential problem, then utilize a technology such as Deep Root that will prevent it. As a Tree Crew Leader for Friends of Trees, I always compliment a homeowner who has chosen a native tree. Invariably, the other homeowners on my crew say “We would have chosen native too, if we had known.” Recent Oregon Community Trees keynote speaker, Doug Tallamy, told the Chicago Tribune that while Portland is lush and beautiful, it is DEAD. That’s because the overwhelming majority of our vegetation is non-native and the larvae of our native insects need native plants to complete their cycle into adults.
4. Encourage bird-friendly building design utilizing the “Resource Guide for Bird-friendly Building Design” recently published by Audubon, along with the City and USFWS.
Thank you so much for your time. And by the way, I want to say that as someone who lives downtown and walks and bikes nearly everywhere I go, I couldn’t disagree more with the last speaker (Terry Parker) who called for increasing auto capacity to the level that you increase the density. That is definitely not needed and, in fact, counterproductive.
Sincerely,
Mary Vogel
Oregon Community Trees recent keynote speaker Dr. Doug Tallamy says that while Portland is lush and beautiful, it is DEAD! Portland has so few insects because most of the vegetation in the city is non-native and the native insects, that are the base of the food chain, need native plants to reproduce!
Enthusiastic participants – Trapper Creek Wilderness
I lead field trips to the wild on weekends that focus on native plant and wildlife communities—helping people appreciate them for their intrinsic beauty and wonder and also for the ecosystems services they provide. I ask folks who sign up to help me make the trips as participatory as possible by doing a bit of research on the natural or cultural history of the region to share with the group. Some do! The trips provide a good way to renew the body, rejuvenate the spirit and make new friends.
I’m trying to recruit more people on my trips who will come back to the city and incorporate what they discover into our overall green infrastructure: green streets, green roofs, green walls, green landscapes and green buildings as well as designs for walkable neighborhoods and great urbanism region-wide. So I’d especially like help in getting word out to landscape architects, landscape suppliers and builders. To really be effective its crucial to reach all parts of the built environment community: planners, designers, developers, financiers, suppliers and builders.
I schedule my trips through Portland-Vancouver Sierra Club Outings Meetup (free to join) because Sierra Club offers leader training, first aid and insurance. And Sierra Club has advocated for the things I care about since 1892. The trips are also free, though Sierra Club asks that you consider a voluntary $2-3 donation towards its leader training. I help people explore and appreciate ancient (aka old growth) forests; showy wildflower meadows and their more modest cousins under the forest canopy; wild rivers and streams; and mountain lakes with wetlands. In winter, I look for places with good snow for XC skiing. If I have to pick a favorite, it’s the west side Cascades. But I plan to include some trips to the east side of the Cascades and the Oregon Coast as well.
Not all of my trips are to wilderness areas (limited to 12), but the ones that are sometimes fill up fast. Identify yourself as a Built Environment Professional in your profile when you sign up. If I can, I’ll give you priority for a spot on the trips. (People who have signed up, drop off at the last minute–or they don’t show up at all! So I’ll promise that you won’t be turned away if you have put yourself on the waiting list.)
I myself am an urban planner who wants to preserve the wild by bringing more of what people appreciate there back to the city to help make our cities and towns more livable, healthy, climate-friendly and resilient. I strive to create places that people don’t feel the need to escape. I hope you will join me in enjoying and protecting the wild—and bringing more of it back to the city. Urbanism and nature can co-exist. In fact, if our species is to survive they must!
Mary Vogel PlanGreenTo see that new buildings promote good urban design, I would like to see a form-based code developed with input from all downtown residents, business and landowners who want to be involved. A form-based code is necessary to see that we get great pedestrian-oriented urban design.
The Ladd Tower fits in its surroundings better than most new residential towers–thanks to citizen advocacy
I would personally prefer a mix of buildings–incorporating and rehabbing our historic buildings to today’s green standards. Most new buildings should be in the 7-9 story range with little to no setback from the street, lots of large operable windows, and clad in conventional materials. The St. Francis Apartments at 1024 SW Main are a good model. A few more tall towers that pay attention to their context should be part of the mix. The Ladd Tower is an example of a project that does this moderately well. The towers should produce enough energy to run their own elevator and HVAC systems—as energy for such uses may be problematic over the long term.
All new downtown buildings should be required to contribute to distributed renewable energy by producing power for the grid. Locally produced and distributed renewable energy is a vastly better model than the distant wind (or solar or geothermal) farms we currently rely on for “green energy.” If you’ve ever seen the
devastation to great swaths of forest, farm and suburban land caused by the high voltage power lines that bring us that energy, you would question whether that power was truly green. Downtown should model the standards we will need to address climate change. I strongly support bringing the updated Green Building Policy (http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=45879&) into effect downtown NOW. It covers both new and existing buildings. I participated in developing it in 2007 and 2008, but it has been held back by events.
We should build on the arrival of ShoreBank Pacific (now One Pacific Coast Bank) to our neighborhood and get them to help us encourage some of the companies in their portfolio to locate here. Perhaps we could bring in a national office of a socially responsible investing organization such as CERES. The existence of Oregon Community Foundation in the neighborhood, as well as ShoreBank, could increase the likelihood of socially responsible businesses and organizations locating here—if we do something to recruit them. Giving them the opportunity to become part of a cooperative health insurance policy or to own their building cooperatively with like-minded organizations could be incentives. Here’s ShoreBank on Green Building:
The built environment has a tremendous impact on the environment, resources, and human health. Building sustainably or implementing more energy-efficient features in an existing building can significantly reduce the single largest contributor to our nation’s carbon footprint. . . .Our real estate lending focuses on owner-occupied buildings and commercial buildings, as well as innovative projects such as co-housing, in-fills, and rehabs. We also specialize in brownfield clean ups. ShoreBank Pacific does not engage in residential lending.
Clean Tech and Sustainable Industries (CTSI), Activewear, Software and Advanced Manufacturing are advocated by Portland’s Economic Development Strategy. perhaps there is room for a company that turns certified sustainably-grown Oregon forest products into unique furniture pieces suitable for those of us who live downtown in small apartments —a company similar to Sweetwater Farm at 14th & Everett in the Pearl. Ideally it would have some assembly jobs suitable for those who live in the subsidized apartments nearby.
Northwest Academy is one of two schools downtown. It serves grades 6 – 12 with “a unique and challenging educational environment that juxtaposes the arts and academics.” It may be unique in its approach to its physical needs:
The Northwest Academy’s campus is located in the center of the City of Portland’s Cultural District at 12th and Main. The Main Street building boasts a small theater, multimedia lab, music recording lab, photography lab, and classrooms. Additional classrooms are located just across the street in a newly renovated facility. Science and visual arts reside in the south campus classroom building a few short steps from the main building. Dance and other activity classes are held at our Studio Building conveniently located a few blocks away. The Central Branch of the Multnomah County Library, a 24,000 square-foot library located just 3 blocks away, serves as the school’s resource center. In addition, the neighborhood includes the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon History Center, Portland State University and Portland Center for the Performing Arts, all of which are involved in enhancing the school’s curriculum.
St.Mary’s Academy (Grades 8-12) is one of the few schools downtown–none of them public
St. Mary’s Academy is the other school within downtown’s borders. (There may be others I don’t know about). A Catholic all-girls college preparatory high school, it is Oregon’s oldest continuously-operating secondary school (Grades 8 -12).
To attract families, downtown needs to retain such schools and expand their number. It also needs an elementary school–perhaps along the lines of the one going into a new affordable family housing/mixed use project in the Pearl. And downtown needs more affordable child care facilities–both to attract families to live here and to serve the needs of workers downtown.
Like Northwest Academy, Outside In is already occupying space in multiple, mostly older buildings. Their health clinics badly need more space—especially their acupuncture clinic—as students, patients and the clinic supervisor are forced to work in cramped conditions that are hard on students and their patients.
NW Film Center should be interviewed for its potential space needs and what it will take for it to stay in the neighborhood. Are there other arts groups we should be nurturing or attracting?
Loaves & Fishes Center, mentioned above, is a nonprofit, secular organization that provides hot, nutritious meals to seniors 60 years and older. It’s downtown center serves as the meeting site for the neighborhood association and other neighborhood activities. It offers the neighborhood great opportunities for “civic engagement” so important to sustainability. Through it, residents can get involved in urban agriculture, in service activities providing meals, classes and companionship to seniors. And perhaps other opportunities as well. They are open to suggestions. . .
Finally, we should work with existing businesses and institutions to encourage them to stay. During the recent walk of our PDNA Land Use Committee, the owner of Thai Chili Jam restaurant at 13th and Jefferson came out and handed us cards begging us to come in or come back. On a recent Saturday night at 9:45 PM they were empty. The whole string of restaurants there—Chef Naoko Bento Café, Taste of Jakarta, Olé! Olé! were either empty or closed at that same hour. This does not bode well for their longevity. Only the West Café on 12th & Jefferson had any patrons. Perhaps SW 13th Street gets too much noise and exhaust pollution from the I-405 freeway to attract many patrons to businesses close to it. We need to keep alive the vision of capping the freeway–even during this era of contraction. Once that takes place, we could build more middle income housing nearby. And that would, in turn, help businesses there.
“Buy local” needs to be promoted amongst downtown residents and businesses too. My downtown chiropractor sent me over to Lloyd Center to a shoe repair shop for arch support inserts when they are probably available from downtown shoe repair shops as well. Preserving existing businesses may also mean preserving the structures they currently occupy.
I’d also like to see several co-housing projects as co-housing is an excellent way to both encourage workforce housing and create a sense of community. Co-housing projects are designed, built and owned by the members who plan to live there. They usually have more community spaces and events than the typical multifamily building and they often utilize the latest green and self-sufficiency technologies—from renewable energy/energy efficiency to organic gardening. Eli Spivak of Orange Splot, LLC (http://www.orangesplot.net/) is a co-housing developer who might help us attract such projects. A relationship with him should be cultivated. Since Spivak usually works with lower density projects than we would require downtown, we might consult with cohousing developers who have experience with denser projects such as ECO (http://www.ecohousing.net/eco.htm). The Courtyard Housing designs that Portland held a design competition to develop could also serve to bring in more families if such housing could be kept reasonably priced.
While the medical racket industry reform debate (aka healthcare reform) rages on, no attention seems to have been paid to the truly less expensive, more effective, more preventative, more holistic and most caring part of the healthcare industry–those involved in alternative treatment modalities such as Naturopathic, Homeopathic, Chiropractic and Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and other forms of energy medicine. In downtown Portland, we are lucky to have several teaching clinics for these modalities that also offer inexpensive care: National College of Natural Medicine at 049 SW Porter St., Outside-In Clinic at 1132 SW 13th Ave and Mercy & Wisdom Clinic just outside our borders at 2 NW 3rd Ave. We also have a host of practitioner offices, several of which offer multi-modal treatment such as the Clearwater Clinic at 1201 SW 12th Ave. Because these are in downtown office buildings, these are less visible than many of their counterparts in more suburban parts of Portland where stand-alone clinics are better able to advertise their services. My vision sees all of these institutions given more visibility at least equal to what we already afford to the medical racket industry. In fact, I would love to see an insurance plan–perhaps a co-op–developed around these modalities that would cover the alternative labs they use and prescribed supplements as well.
(I say all this as a small business owner whose medical racket insurance rate went from $289/mo to $522/mo over the course of 15 months and one whose only foray into the MD world resulted in three bills of at least $255 to my “insurance” company from physicians who saw me for 15 minutes or less. The general practitioner and specialist sent me for an unnecessary CT scan that resulted in another huge bill that also cost me and my insurance company dearly.)
Lincoln High School offers one of the greatest opportunities for creating and displaying Downtown’s new paradigm shift. It could and should go to at least four stories in height and welcome another school or two to join its campus. There are already models in the public school system for a greatly revised and multi-functional landscape: Glencoe is probably the best as other schools have too many non-natives in their stormwater planters. A wildlife garden in the area of the three Black Walnuts fronting on 14th Ave could benefit the trees and be a far better use of the space than the turf grass and temp buildings that are there now.
Invasive species hinder biodiversity and ecosystem services and the Lincoln High School campus is full of them. There are many other hotspots for them throughout the study area as well. They need to be inventoried and a plan developed to deal with them.
Today’s paradigm, as it was in 2009, seems to accept shrinking public sector budgets and hinder our ability to think big and envision a brighter future. I recognize that this vision is going against that grain. But, having just read The Nature Principle by Richard Louv has given me new hope that there are enough of us out there who still see nature as integral to our health, prosperity and our very survival. I hope to promote these ideas in the Portland Central City 2035 Plan for the SW Quadrant and into the City’s new Comprehensive Plan. And then I’ll work to implement them. I hope that you will too!
