Park Place Neighborhood Association

Letter From PPNA Chair--Transportation Study Impacts Park Place

Feb 27, 2005

Dear Neighbors,

I know that we as a neighborhood are very concerned about the I-205/213 interchange. Our city Engineer Nancy Kraushaar, our Mayor, and other staff have made sure that our interests have been looked after by initiating the application process for a project titled "I-205/Highway 213 Interchange Reconnaissance Study."

Our PPNA transportation committee was asked to write a letter of support at the time Nancy Kraushaar wrote the initial application to Metro for the I-205/213 study. (Metro handles all the regional money for such projects.)

Now it is time to follow up with other PPNA support by way of e-mail to Metro (your letter must be in to Metro trans@metro.dst.or.us by Feb. 22), or in person support on Thursday, Feb 17 at the Metro council public meeting at 600 NE Grand Ave. Portland (follow 99E, and northbound it becomes Grand; building is just N. of I 84 interchange). If you choose to go to the meeting you will have three minutes to read your letter and hand it personally to the Metro Council Committee in change, which is a group called JPAC.

Here are suggested talking points, which come from our article titled PPNA's letter RE:Metro Council.

Please take the time-Thanks. (See letter from PPNA, below, for "talking points.")

I include here Metro websites that might be helpful for your own background reading.
http://www.metro-region.org/article.cfm?ArticleID=3940
http://www.metro-region.org/mtip

Lois Kiefer,Chair
rwkiefer@aol.com