Portland was a little late getting into the whole condo thing, but thanks to Homer Williams and a pliant set of civic...oh, gag, now - "leaders", we've got the Pearl and the South Waterfront, with more condos on the horizon. One little problem with that whole "progressive" scenario: it's already dead.
Isn't that just the way it always seems to be with the City of Portland, the Metropolitan Service District, and all of their legions of "planners"? Nothing ever seems to pan out as they "planned".
Maybe it's just time to take government and their agencies out of the "planning" business entirely.
Your tax dollars are paying for roughly 600 "planners" between just these two agencies. At a hundred thousand dollars or so a pop (counting benefits), it's a hell of a lot of money to pay for "plans" that never work.
