Suburban Walgreens in St Johns?
From St. Johns neighborhood association:
A Suburban Walgreens in St. Johns? Our Neighborhood Deserves Better!
Come to the final public meeting with the developer on March 10 at 7pm at the St. Johns Community Center. (Come at 6:45pm, we're going to pack the place!)
Summit Development Corporation wants to build a low-end suburban Walgreens surrounded by a parking lot at the former Rose City Chevrolet site - the gateway to Downtown St. Johns. It's a bad idea.
This is a square peg in a round hole. The developer wants exceptions to Portland's development rules so he can build a suburban-style store in our historic neighborhood business district. Traffic's bad enough already. The main entrances would be on residential streets and the store is designed mainly for cars - it would be dangerous for pedestrians, bus riders, and bicyclists.
St. Johns planned for better. When our community wrote the St. Johns/Lombard Plan, we said we want good development that would
strengthen our neighborhood. Not this!
Posted on March 5, 2008
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