I hate to say it, but I agree with CorbinWarrick's comment. I wish the city would focus on the most urgent priorities.
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The plan has been in the city’s pipeline since the spring of 2019 and will officially come before city council on July 7.
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2019. That's infuriating. In 2019, the homeless problem was escalating out of control and had been for years... so of course that means it was the right time to focus on making parks prettier.
What the hell is wrong with city hall?!?
Businesses are boarded up. So many have left. The ones that remain are struggling. The homeless crisis is an epidemic, and by the way, most of them aren't wearing masks and I doubt they've been vaccinated. So, yeah, let's plant some freaking trees.
Please, dear god, please... please, can we find real candidates for Mayor by 2024?!? We've got some clowns on city council that need to go too, but Wheeler needs to go most of all. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but dear lord is he inept. Sarah would have been worse, but that just proves how serious of a problem we have with recruiting decent candidates. Recruit is the correct word. Nobody worth even a bucket of spit seems to want the job. The only hope is that Portlanders get so fed up that we recruit somebody to run for the job.
I'm feeling particularly frustrated by the Arts Tax this year too. I can't even open my windows at night due to the homeless, but here's $35 for art. Art.
Thank god the city wants to plant some trees. That will solve everything.
Considering how little rain we've had this spring, the city should be saving as much of the parks budget as they can for saving our parks once the wildfires come, because we should expect an even more brutal fire season this summer. I'm sure the city will think about that when it's too late.
I love Portland so much. The sheer lack of leadership in this town over the past decade has been heartbreaking.