Category Archives: Brooklyn Action Corps

Brooklyn Action Corps, Transportation

Land Use and Transportation

The Brooklyn Land Use & Transportation committee (BLUTC) is a subcommittee of the Brooklyn Action Corps. The BLUTC reviews, advocates, and makes recommendations on land use and transportation issues which affect our neighborhood and surrounding area.

Ways to get involved

Meetings

Land Use & Transportation Committee Meetings are held monthly on the 3rd Tuesday of each month (except December) at Rose City Coffee, 3370 SE Milwaukie Ave, starting at 6:30 PM. On some occasions, the date is adjusted to better align with Southeast Uplift’s Land Use & Transportation Committee meetings (typically held on the 3rd Monday of the month).

Current committee members

  • Josh Hetrick (chair)
  • Don Stephens
  • Melaney Dittler
  • Lily Gilbert
Brooklyn Action Corps

Diesel townhall forum held last Wednesday

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This past Wednesday, September 26, Brooklyn neighborhood hosted a citywide townhall forum on diesel pollution, at which several subject matter experts spoke and attendees got to hear from a panel of local electeds and candidates for public office about the problem. Our neighborhood worked with a coalition of other Portland neighborhoods to organize the event, with the goal of raising public awareness about a serious health threat to residents of our region.

We learned about important and potentially pivotal opportunities in the near future to make a life saving difference, by convincing local and state officials in the coming months to begin to adopt clean air standards that phase out dirty diesel engines. (The city and county, for example, are considering adopting a precedent setting ordinance on the subject in December, but the public must show up to ensure that the ordinance really serves the goals it purports to stand for.)  Brooklyn neighborhood board members intend to continue to work with neighbors across Portland to bring about these changes.

See this link for a program of the evening’s event, and watch a streaming video of the entire event .

Brooklyn Action Corps, diesel-pollution-mitigation, Newsletter

Diesel pollution townhall forum

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On September 26, BAC is hosting a citywide townhall forum on a problem that especially affects our neighborhood, diesel pollution. All of Portland is affected, though, and we are working with neighbors throughout the metro area to organize the event. (see the Brooklyn neighborhood calendar). This is an important opportunity to learn about the problem and ask our local elected leaders and candidates for office what they plan to do to protect our health.