In late September, neighbors noticed that all the shrubs on the pedestrian median island in front of Papaccino’s Coffee Shop, on Woodstock Boulevard between 44th and 45th Avenues, had been chopped completely down to stubs. Many people wondered, why? And who did it?”
A little history of those islands will reveal why it happened, and what might happen next.
Twenty-three years ago Daisy Lu was struck and killed by a vehicle while crossing Woodstock Boulevard between the Chinese Presbyterian Church and the Woodstock Library. At that point, already for over twelve years, the Woodstock Neighborhood Association and community members had been advocatingfor some way to make it safer to cross Woodstock Boulevard, but the City of Portland and Metro placed this need low on their list of priorities…