How valuable is this wildlife habitat?
- The majority of the site is within a designated environmental overlay, an area the city recognizes has “highly significant resources and functional values.”
- The site is bordered on three sides by waterways and wetlands including the Columbia Slough, the Catkin Marsh Wetlands, and a Port of Portland environmental mitigation site. This parcel contains more than a full mile of riparian habitat! Destroying this site will not only eliminate important habitat. It will leave the surrounding habitat isolated and fragmented, cutting the heart out of one of the most important wildlife complexes on the slough.
- The site is full of massive trees including many large giant sequoias like the ones that the community fought to save in SE Portland.
- 11 at-risk bird species and the state listed sensitive Western Painted Turtles have been identified in this habitat complex.
- The entire site ranks as “high value” on the regional natural resources inventory.
This amendment is about greed—the owners of Broadmoor already stood to make millions of dollars in profit based on a prior proposal by the City to upzone significant acreage at the front of the golf course along Columbia Blvd for industrial use. The original proposal was bad—this new proposal makes it much, much worse. Adding these additional 57 acres of valuable wildlife habitat will add millions more to the owners’ profit, but at the expense of wildlife, habitat, and Open Space. This amendment undermines the public process. The conversion of the 57 acres to industrial use was never proposed during the multi-year comprehensive plan public process. In fact, it was proposed to be permanently protected as Open Space and natural area every step of the way and was only shifted to industrial use at the very end of the process at the behest of the landowner.
Please help us save wildlife habitat, wetlands and giant trees at Broadmoor. The owner has no legitimate expectation that this land will be upzoned. City Council is putting the property owner ahead of the public interest.
Please let Council know that you want them to protect Broadmoor Golf Course as Open Space and Natural Area, not convert it to industrial use.
How you can help:
1) Attend a Hearing
April 14, 6 – 9 p.m., Portland Building 1120 SW 5th Ave
April 20, 2 – 5 p.m., Council Chamber, 1221 SW 4th Ave
2) Call or Send an Email
Commissioner Nick Fish: 503-823-3589 | nick@portlandoregon.gov
Commissioner Steve Novick: 503-823-4682 | novick@portlandoregon.gov
Commissioner Dan Saltzman: 503-823-4151 | dan@portlandoregon.gov
Commissioner Amanda Fritz: 503-823-3008 | amanda@portlandoregon.gov
Mayor Charlie Hales: 503-823-4120 | mayorcharliehales@portlandoregon.gov
Council Clerk: CCtestimony@portlandoregon.gov
