The community is invited to join the Goose Hollow Foothills League – Public Safety Livability, Parking Transportation Subcommittee. GHFL is extending participation to surrounding neighborhoods to join a shared meeting on topics of homelessness that pierces all our hearts. Please join the zoom call on Wednesday, January 19th @ 530-7PM AGENDA: Guest Speaker Keith Wilson will […]
Author: Joyce del Rosario
Be Heard on the Noise Review Board
The Noise Review Board is Seeking a New Member!The Noise Review Board serves as an advisory body to the Office of Community & Civic Life’s Noise Program and Portland City Council. We are seeking a new person to lend their experience and expertise to a member-at-large position! Noise Review Board Responsibilities The Noise Review Board […]
Do you have an interest in Portland’s transportation system in Portland’s Central City? Are you a problem-solver, willing to help PBOT evaluate project designs, weigh trade-offs, resolve conflicts, and move forward with implementing projects in a timely manner? If yes, please apply to serve on Central City in Motion Working Group! The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is currently recruiting applications […]
SWHRL Donation Drive 1/22-25

Donate Your Excess Clothes, Linens and Hygiene Products to Those Who Desperately Need Them SWHRL is collecting items in support of Transition Projects, an organization helping those on their journey from homelessness to housing and opening their pathways to employment, which we featured in our September panel on “Actions to End Homelessness.” What we are collecting: New or […]
Feeling Trashed, Portland?
People for Portland is considering supporting legal action regarding the failure of state and local governments to properly manage, clean up and remove garbage, dangerous human and medical waste and other debris piling up across the City of Portland and Multnomah County. If you or someone you know has a home, a business or property […]
The Planning and Sustainability Commission will hear public testimony on the RIP2 Proposed Draft on Tuesday December 14 at 5 p.m.; Portlanders invited to testify in person at the virtual hearing or in writing via the Map App. Learn more about RIP2 Over the past year, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability staff have been developing a […]
Property Tax Increase Discount Deadline
Property owners can receive a 3% discount by paying in full by Nov. 15. Taxes can be paid online using an electronic check at proptax.multco.us, by phone at 1-833-610-5715, at several 24-hour drop boxes, by mail or in-person at the county headquarters, 501 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., in Portland. Full Article: https://pamplinmedia.com/go/42-news/526980-421211-multnomah-county-property-taxes-up-8-owners-owe-22b#:~:text=Property%20owners%20should%20have%20already,the%20Nov.%2015%20due%20date.&text=Multnomah%20County%20itself%20only%20gets,according%20to%20a%20news%20release.
To a school or TriMet bus? For the dog? The excercise? Do you do so on a sidewalk? Many of your fellow SWHRL residents (and for that matter, SW Portlanders in general) do not have that basic foundation of pedestrian safety: a sidewalk, or any other travel surface separated from traffic, often rendering a simple […]
Child Tax Credit
October 23, 2021 Friends – We are reaching out with important information about the Child Tax Credit, including the upcoming deadline for non-tax filers to sign up and helpful resources for you to share with your communities. Thank you in advance for helping us spread the word about the Child Tax Credit, which is already […]
Neighbors West-Northwest also has trash grabbers and graffiti removal supplies available for loan for groups organizing their own cleanup efforts. Contact staff to reserve a time.