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Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League (SMILE) in Portland OR is a special place... not many neighborhoods in the US can claim history dating back to the 1800's!

Sellwood-Moreland is located three miles "up-river" from downtown Portland, and the history of the neighborhood stretches back to the late 1840's, before Oregon was a state, when the area was part of four donation land claims.

One of those first claimants, Henderson Luelling, brought nursery stock with him via the Oregon Trail, and established the first commercial fruit nursery in what was then simply the Oregon Country.

The neighborhood had no name until 1882, when 321 acres were purchased and subdivided for house lots by the Sellwood Real Estate Company.

The independent City of Sellwood, named after early civic leader Reverend Sellwood, was incorporated in 1887, and had its own city council and sheriff until 1893, when it became a part of the growing City of Portland.

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Code Compliance

Marlborough Mesa in Mesa, Arizona has done a great job of using all the tools that Neighborhood Link provides. They recently asked us to create a separate website so that Neighbors could report violations of city code. The Mesa City manager in turn has pledged to monitor the site and investigate all of the reported code violations.

On their current website, they just created a link to the discussion forum on the new code violation website thus making it easy for neighbors to report code violation. Very cool!

If your HOA or Neighborhood Association would like to to do something similar for code violations or some other pressing issue in your community just email us