Active Projects: Metro/Hood River

Humboldt School Project

The goal of this project is to ensure that efforts in housing, community development, and education are coordinated, creative, and positive for the neighborhood and Humboldt School. This Oregon Solutions project will leverage resources to create positive differences in the Humboldt Neighborhood and at tile Humboldt School.

North Portland Diesel Emissions Reduction

This project is the first in a series of highway and transit projects that are planned for the I-5 Corridor between Portland and Vancouver. A Community Enhancement Fund is being created to benefit the communities affected by transportation projects on I-5.

Completed Projects: Metro/Hood River

Zenger Farm

Zenger Farm is a unique urban resource in outer Southeast Portland, encompassing both farm and wetland. The Friends of Zenger farm is proposing to develop the Center for Food and Environment on the site in order to integrate many existing efforts around food and the environment.

University Park Community Center

The University Park Community Center project convenes private, public, and non-profit stakeholders to develop learning programs and outreach strategies that will connect low-income residents of North Portland to the opportunities of the Information Age.

Metro Carbon Offsets

This project provides an opportunity for individual motorists and businesses in the Portland area to voluntarily contribute to a fund that would purchase transportation-related carbon offsets in amounts sufficient to offset the CO2 emissions from the vehicles they own or operate.

Division Street Revitalization

Oregon Solutions assisted a neighborhood coalition of businesses, residents, and community-based organizations and the City of Portland in reaching agreement on the scope of a transportation and land use plan for Division Street in Southeast Portland.

  • Declaration of Cooperation: Division Street Revitalization [pdf]

Farmer's Irrigation District Fish Screen

Centered in the Hood River Valley, this project involves developing, prototyping, and putting into production fish-friendly screens for the irrigation district that will help provide long-term sustainability for the orchard industry in Hood River.

 
Portland, Oregon skyline..
A barn near Hood River..

 

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