Neighborhood Association Meeting
Big news!! Homestead Neighborhood Association (HmNA) and the SW Hills Residential League (SWHRL) have agreed upon a process for resolving the boundary dispute that has soured relations between the two neighborhood groups over the last three years. That process is underway now and everyone in Homestead should have received a notice and survey in the mail about the process.
The boards of HmNA and SWHRL have proposed a tentative “discussion boundary†between the two neighborhoods that will do away completely with overlaps. The discussion boundary proposes that residences in the heights along Fairmount Blvd. and Sherwood Rd. will become part of SWHRL, and most properties below Fairmount will be part of Homestead, including the Marquam Village and OHSU area and areas further down towards Terwilliger Blvd.
Additionally, most of Marquam Nature Park will be part of SWHRL, and the recently protected open space areas south of Marquam Hill Rd. will be part of Homestead.
An open house to provide more detailed information and allow discussion of the boundary proposal will occur on December 15, 6 - 9 pm, OHSU School of Nursing in rooms 358/364. The nursing school is at 3455 SW Veterans Hospital Rd, but is more easily accessed off of Gaines St. where on-street parking is available.
Maps of both neighborhoods showing individual properties along with existing and proposed boundaries will be on display at the open house. A formal discussion of the proposal (mediated by Resolutions NW) will begin at 7 pm, with informal discussion before and after.
The purpose of the survey is to solicit responses to the boundary proposal and several other settlement provisions. Do residents in the Heights want to be part of SWHRL exclusively, and do residents and businesses in the Marquam Village area down to Terwilliger want to be part of Homestead exclusively? Your responses are critical to helping the boards of both neighborhoods decide whether to accept or change the proposal. In addition to the mailed survey, they will be available at the open house and online at “HomesteadNA.org.â€
Please participate in this survey to help us settle this issue once and for all!
Anton Vetterlein, 503-790-0719