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Abandoned vehicles allowed to blight North Portland
According to those working at Portland Bureau of Transportation’s (PBOT) Abandoned Vehicle hotline, the staff is overwhelmed by calls and have too few employees to keep up with demand. Although one employee said the goal is removal of an abandoned vehicle within three weeks, he admitted they rarely meet that goal. He said there are…
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Blight allowed to fester (Oct. 2023)
Lombard Street, North Portland’s civic corridor, main street, and central transportation route, is plagued by several vacant buildings that create blight but fall through cracks of City of Portland code enforcement. After the Farmer’s Barn fire at N. Denver and Lombard on April 19 following a litany of complaints by neighbors citing graffiti, trash and…
