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		<title>Portland Tribune: City ready to replace crumbling Mt. Tabor facility</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/portland-tribune-city-ready-to-replace-crumbling-mt-tabor-facility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Council OKs plan that some think could be a candidate for Obama public works funds
BY STEVE LAW
The Portland Tribune, December 17, 2008
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Portland city commissioners agreed Wednesday to replace the decrepit central parks maintenance facility and nursery at Mt. Tabor Park.
The project, pegged to cost $63 million to $68 million, would upgrade the antiquated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=72&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City, neighbors scrap over Tabor land</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/city-neighbors-scrap-over-tabor-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neighborhood Beat • Activists allege ulterior motive in changing land-use designation
BY STEVE LAW
The Portland Tribune, December 4, 2008
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You might call this story: Pesky Mount Tabor Park Neighbors vs. City Bureaucrats, Round III.
In recent years, neighborhood activists fended off a Portland Water Bureau plan to enclose Mount Tabor Park’s open-air reservoirs. Then they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=77&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Tabor facilities need costly face-lift</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/mount-tabor-facilities-need-costly-face-lift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public invited to view design for maintenance yard, nursery revamp
BY JIM REDDEN
The Portland Tribune, November 6, 2008
Full story

Plans for an estimated $80 million overhaul of Portland Parks &#38; Recreation’s central maintenance yard and nursery at Mount Tabor Park will be presented to the public Nov. 15.

The design selected by a planning group would rebuild the yard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=79&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Architectural design concepts published on Our New Mind blog</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/architectural-design-concepts-published-on-our-new-mind-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete Forsyth has published the six architectural design concepts, recently presented by Opsis, on his web site. They&#8217;re represented in mapping software, that allows you to click around and see notes, etc. One example:
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See the rest here.
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		<title>Blog updates</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/blog-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Yelton, a longtime member of the Planning Group who used it as the subject of his Masters&#8217; thesis, has now posted his entire thesis on his blog, here: threedegrees.wordpress.com
Pete Forsyth has a new blog post as well, describing some concerns at this stage of the process, on his blog, Our New Mind.
Also, we&#8217;re holding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=53&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reader survey: Mt. Tabor is #1 favorite park</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/reader-survey-mt-tabor-is-1-favorite-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shannon L. Cheesman • KATU.com • July 29, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. &#8211; In an informal survey last week, we asked our readers to tell us which Portland park is their favorite.
Here are the top three:

Mt. Tabor Park, with its great trails for walkers, runners and cyclists, off leash areas for dogs and natural scenic beauty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=51&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections from Cascade Anderson Geller</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/reflections-from-cascade-anderson-geller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are some reflections on the Planning Group&#8217;s work to date, and remaining tasks, from Cascade Anderson Geller. Cascade has been an instrumental part of our process from the beginning, and has done much of the research that has guided our work. She asked me to post this here, as she will be away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=49&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Peak Vacation Day</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/a-peak-vacation-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Oppenheimer • The Oregonian • Saturday, July 05, 2008
Summer did its best to skewer my inner traveler.
Gas prices hit $4 a gallon, and airfares climbed. Flying to a friend&#8217;s  wedding in Louisiana would cost nearly $700, so I turned down the invitation. I  felt trapped in Portland.
Then triple-digit temperatures descended. Last weekend, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=48&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cut trees spur outrage</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/cut-trees-spur-outrage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neighbors decry tree cuts along MLK for house move
Mariah Summers • The Portland Tribune • June 30, 2008, 
Nearly three blocks of street trees were removed from Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard this weekend to move a house from Northeast Broadway to Northeast Thompson.
Neighbors were upset by the removal of the trees and confused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=47&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water: No clear answer</title>
		<link>http://protectportlandparks.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/water-no-clear-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Forsyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water: No clear answer
City might need to build another buried reservoir at Powell Butte
Jim Redden • The Portland Tribune • June 19, 2008
At city Commissioner Randy Leonard’s direction, the Portland Water Bureau is drawing up plans to comply with the newest federal clean-water rules.
Unless the bureau can circumvent the rules, the plans could require the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=protectportlandparks.wordpress.com&blog=1898238&post=45&subd=protectportlandparks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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