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Originally Posted by pdxstreetcar
Its her way or the highway on every issue in the neighborhood and has no time for anyone who disagrees, has a condescending tone when anyone questions her ideas/decisions, skirts opposition with behind closed door meetings for neighborhood business, and speaks for everyone in the neighborhood as if it was her personal neighborhood and as if everyone agreed with her. Heights are her big issue now and has no time for anyone who thinks that there shouldn't be unlimited heights in the north end of the neighborhood. Before she was the one who insisted on the terrible couplet and scolded Safeway for standing in the way of its implementation. She definitely has made a lot of enemies in the way she conducts the neighborhood representation. I could go on.
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Wow, if you're going to post ad hominem attacks, you might as well man up and post under your real name. Patty is very outspoken about her views, but she definitely doesn't speak for everyone in the neighborhood association. For example, myself and many others are less supportive of the West Burnside-Couch couplet than she is. But she is spot-on about the need for new development to achieve the heights and densities required to make a true, transit-supportive urban neighborhood, as a natural extension of downtown. It's advantageous to do that in an area that is very centrally located yet lacks a strong historic context like the North Pearl. Often during Central City 2035 stakeholder meetings, she literally was the only member that tried to push the City to embrace a bolder vision, which the West Quadrant plan sorely lacks.
Oh, and what's so "terrible" about the Lovejoy-Northrup couplet? Do you remember how bad traffic would get eastbound in the afternoons? Reducing congestion on Lovejoy has helped improve the streetcar's reliability considerably.
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