Volunteers from the neighborhood association for Sellwood and Westmoreland – SMILE – can now legally paint yellow “no parking” curbs themselves, thanks to a novel agreement the neighborhood association has reached with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT).
As Bureau Communications Director Hannah Schafer puts it, “No other neighborhood association has made an agreement with PBOT to paint curbs in this way” – although, after seeing the Sellwood-Moreland example, the Richmond, Sunnyside, and Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood associations are now pursuing their own such agreement.
By early October, SMILE Transportation Committee members had painted a total of 11 curbs on S.E. 13th and Milwaukie Avenues…