the website of the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association

Dear Neighbors:

Welcome to the Eastmoreland web site.  We are midway through a dramatic change in the way neighbors communicate.  Given the pace of modern jobs and family, few of us have the time for meeting on a day to day basis.  Mail, though still good, is often clogged with ads and appeals. 

Almost all of us are now on the internet, so with the invaluable help of the webmaster, Bert Sperling, we are edging towards email and web communications.  Please do sign up on the new web site and use it or email to check in with us.  We are very interested in your concerns – so interested that we have been known to place newcomers at the front of the parade and ask them to lead!

A great deal is happening at the moment:

1. The city has reduced city services across the board – police, park, and transportation are the areas of the most importance.  We have stepped up to save the trees along Reed College Place as well as maintaining the beautiful Bybee park.  We are actively involved with a vastly more political city hall than any in our city’s recent history and we need all the help and encouragement we can find.
2. Union Pacific has continued a hundred year long fight to extend rail operations through Eastmoreland and Sellwood and on to Tacoma in the south.  They plan to both extend the geographic scale of their operations and to increase tonnage by a factor of three.  Most of the tonnage will involve additional truck traffic and emissions along 99E and will directly affect us.  We are currently opposing this in federal court.
3. TriMet and Metro have plans to rebuild the Bybee Bridge in order to facilitate light rail next to the golf course.  They are not including parking, nor have they considered all of the traffic and safety issues.  We are also highly involved in this issue.
4. Our first annual appeal has started very well and we are working to expand it.  If you haven’t already contributed, please do.
5. And, as always, we are inoculating trees, running the garage sales, the 4^thof July parade, and many other projects.

Feel free to email, call, or just plain visit with me and the other board members.  You can reach me at Robert@mresearch.com, 503-771-5090, and a knock on the door at 6123 S.E. Reed College Place works as well . . .

Robert McCullough

President
Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association