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Multnomah Development: Neighbors take action



The Multnomah Neighborhood Association isn’t after a fight, chairwoman Carol McCarthy says — but the group may have found itself in the middle of one, nonetheless.

“We’re a friendly neighborhood,” she says. “We just want to preserve what we love.”

For McCarthy and many Multnomah residents, that means opposing Urban Asset Advisors’ planned four-story apartment and retail complex at the corner of Southwest 33rd Avenue and Southwest Capitol Highway in the Village.

Preliminary sketches of the building show plans for an estimated 70 market-rate residential units — 35 studio, 17 one-bedroom and 18 two-bedroom apartments; two ground-floor retail spaces — one an estimated 2,500 square feet, the other an estimated 1,600 square feet; and roughly 43 parking spaces, with the option to add up to 17 tuck-under spaces through a potential easement with the adjacent property owner on the west side of the building.

While the area’s zoning allows developers to build up to four stories high, neighbors at the forefront of a campaign to “save Multnomah Village” believe it doesn’t fit with the Village’s small-town character.

...continues at the Portland Tribune.