Housing Services:
Headwaters Apartments

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The Headwaters at Tryon Creek (PDF)

Project Overview

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The Portland Development Commission is developing a new middle-income, rental housing development called the Headwaters Apartments.

The project is located just off Southwest Barbur Boulevard at 30th Avenue, on the site of the old Eagles Lodge. The PDC project (100 units) will be part of a larger project which includes private development of 14 for-sale row houses and 56 rental units affordable to senior citizens.

Several neighborhood improvements would accompany this development:

• A buried creek running under the property and beyond, which is a headwaters to Tryon Creek, will be daylighted.
  
  
• The community would have scenic vistas to the creek and improved water quality as a result.
  
  
• The city will improve the adjacent wetlands, and enlarge and improve the traffic triangle at 30th and Dolph Street with landscaping, creek access and interpretive signage. This would help restore habitat, reduce pollution from storm water runoff and provide additional creek access.
  
  
• The city will install a 4-way stop sign at SW 30th and Dolph Street and eliminate a short cutoff west of the traffic triangle, improving traffic flow and allowing for improvements to the traffic triangle.
  
  
• The adjacent streets will be widened and improved to provide new on-street parking, landscaping and sidewalks around the property.

Neighborhood Input Helped Shape the Project

PDC and the developer (Winkler Development Company) have worked with neighbors and have incorporated their input into many elements of this project.

Why This is Important

• The development is less dense. PDC and the developer have proposed far fewer units on this property than is allowed by zoning. The commercial zoning allows for a large retail center (such as a “big box” retailer) or a housing development with nearly 400 units—more than twice as dense as what is proposed.
• More parking is provided. PDC and the developer are creating roughly 170 parking spaces, or one per bedroom. The city’s zoning code requires no minimum parking for sites located less than 500 feet from a transit street (Barbur Blvd.) with 20-minute peak hour service. (Tri-Met’s #12 bus on Barbur Blvd. has 15-minute peak service.)
• The City of Portland has earmarked the approximately $100,000 in parks fees to be paid by PDC for the project specifically for improvements to nearby Spring Garden Park. (Normally these fees become part of the overall Parks budget.)
• A traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of Barbur Blvd and SW 30th Avenue.

Project Design

The Headwaters Development master plan calls for an attractive, inter-generational, mixed-income housing development that will provide an appropriately scaled transition to the adjacent neighborhood from Barbur Blvd.

It will provide quality workforce housing at rental rates that are affordable to middle-income households.

As an environmentally sustainable development using green building practices, the development is intended to attract residents who care about the environment and neighborhood livability. These residents are expected to frequent local shops and restaurants.

The development encompasses the goals of the Multnomah Neighborhood plan, including its vision for higher-density housing along transportation corridors, water quality improvements, parking design, and street and sidewalk improvements.

Project Schedule

The Headwaters Apartments will take approximately 14 months to build and will be completed in Fall 2006.

Publications

• Headwaters Apartments Project Public Participation Plan (PDF, 284 kb)
  
  
• Headwaters—Housing Development Proposed for Multnomah Neighborhood
  (PDF, 2,780 kb)
  
  
• Concept Plan—Headwaters at Tyron Creek (PDF, 1,020 kb)
  
  
• Good Neighbor Agreements (GNA)
  
  • GNA - Construction Phase (PDF, 655 kb)
  • GNA - Occupancy Phase (PDF, 838 kb)

Contact and Feedback Information

PDC has negotiated a good neighbor agreement (GNA) with the Multnomah Neighborhood Association pertaining to the construction and operations of the project. The GNA establishes the following communications procedures:

Illegal Activity — Any illegal activity should be reported to the police.

Health and Safety Issues — Any health and safety issue should be reported to R&H Construction, the contractor for the project.

• John Moody, R&H's on-site superintendent, 503-808-9445

Construction Nuisances and Livability Issues — Any questions or concerns resulting from on-site construction activities should be directed to:

• Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc., 503-823-4592
• John Warner, PDC (contact information below)
  

PDC contact

• John Warner, PDC Senior Development Manager
  503-823-3240
  
  

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