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This summer, the 40-year-old beleaguered downtown Portland cart pod will boast 28 carts and more than 300 seats wrapped around a central bar cart. ....
City Council votes stymie police responses and alternatives May 19 2021 Next year s budget will be reviewed on June 17 and take effect on July 1, the start of the next fiscal year. Even though shootings and visible homelessness are increasing in Portland, the City Council rebuffed pleas from both the Portland police union and police critics when it tentatively approved a $5.7 billion budget for the next fiscal year on Thursday, May 13. As a result, city residents will not immediately see a beefed-up response to gun violence or alternatives to police responses to 9-1-1 calls. Before the unanimous vote on the total budget, Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner urged the council to increase funding for the Portland Police Bureau and to reinstate the Gun Violence Reduction Team that was abolished last year. In a morning press release, he blamed the record increase in shootings and killings on the team being abolished. ....
Portland City Council approves funding to give displaced food carts new home in downtown Updated 1:02 PM; Today 1:02 PM Renderings of a new food cart pod set to open by July 4, 2021 on Southwest Ankeny Street, Southwest 8th Avenue and Southwest Park Avenue. Facebook Share Two years after 55 food carts were forced out of their longtime site at Southwest Alder Street to make way for the construction of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the city of Portland is setting aside funds to give them a new home. The Portland City Council voted unanimously Thursday to enact Mayor Ted Wheeler’s $5.7 billion budget, which includes $269,000 to help food cart vendors that were displaced by the Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2019 relocate to Ankeny Square in the North Park Blocks. ....