Land use

Proposed Air Quality Permit for Owens Corning Foam Plant

Notice of Public Hearing: Dec. 13, 2007

Information session begins at 6:30 p.m. with formal hearing to follow:

Centennial High School
Community Room
3505 S.E. 182nd Ave.
Gresham, Oregon

Complete hearing details for the proposed Owens Corning Foam Insulation plant to be located at 18456 NE Wilkes Road, Gresham Oregon (in the industrial park at NE 181st Ave and I-84) can be found here.

You are invited to make oral comments on this proposed air quality permit issuance at a public hearing. You may also comment in writing.

Proposed Air Quality Permit for Owens Corning Foam Plant

Notice of Public Hearing: Dec. 13, 2007

Information session begins at 6:30 p.m. with formal hearing to follow:

Centennial High School
Community Room
3505 S.E. 182nd Ave.
Gresham, Oregon

Complete hearing details for the proposed Owens Corning Foam Insulation plant to be located at 18456 NE Wilkes Road, Gresham Oregon (in the industrial park at NE 181st Ave and I-84) can be found here.

You are invited to make oral comments on this proposed air quality permit issuance at a public hearing.

Board meets with Owens Corning over proposed Foam Insulation plant

Board members Kris Freiermuth (WENA Chair), and Lee Dayfield (WENA Chair Land-Use), met Friday October 26, 2007 with Kimberly Howard (General Manager) Owens Corning Foam Insulation Division to discuss the proposed Owens Corning’s Foam Insulation plant located at 18456 NE Wilkes Road, Gresham Oregon; in the industrial park at NE 181st Ave and I-84.

Can I Burn? Call the daily burning information hotline: (503) 618-3083

Residents who live east of approximately 182nd Avenue are allowed to burn yard debris on specific days. Backyard burning is only allowed within the city limits of Gresham (and outside the DEQ Burn Ban Area) 10 authorized days in the Spring: March 1-June 15, and 10 authorized days in the Fall: October 1-December 15. Authorized burn days are announced on a daily burn line during the seasonal burn periods. Call the daily burning information hotline: (503) 618-3083 for details.

For complete Backyard, Agricultural, Open, and Recreational burning information click here.

November 1, 2007 - 6:30 pm Centennial High School

What: The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will hold an information meeting about an air quality permit application for the proposed Owens Corning Corporation plant that will manufacture rigid polystyrene foam insulation boards at a new plant located at 18456 NE Wilkes Road in Gresham Oregon.

On October 24, 2007 the Johnson Creek Watershed Council Land-Use Committee will host the Coalition for a Livable Future who will present a special introductory session of the Regional Equity Atlas.

Come learn about the Regional Equity Atlas and the implications for the future of East Multhnomah County.

Regional Equity Atlas: City Council presentation
Tuesday October 9, 2007
3:00pm - 3:30pm

City Hall
1333 NW Eastman Parkway
Gresham, OR 97030

Presentation to the Gresham City Council on the Regional Equity Atlas

The Equity Atlas explores equity in the Portland metropolitan region, compiling data on demographics, transportation, housing, schools, health, and access to food and natural areas.

Measure 49: Our one chance to protect what's special about Oregon

Dear Fellow Oregonian:

When you think of Oregon, what comes to mind?

• Is it rolling farmland that supports an astonishing array of agricultural products?
• Is it our majestic forests and clear, clean water?
• Is it our spectacular coastline, with beaches that belong to all of us?
• Or is it the fact that all these things combine to give us a quality of life that has disappeared from so many other places?

If these things are as important to you as they are to us, we invite you to visit the "Yes on 49" website.

Hogan Cedar Trees

HOGAN CEDAR FACTS

• It is a unique form of Thuja plicata, the western red cedar, which grows naturally only in the Gresham area.

• It has been recognized nationally as an important plant in horticulture.

• The Oregon Association of Nurserymen's publication, 1999-2000 Directory and Buyer's Guide listed 13 commercial nursery producers of the Hogan Cedar. These are sold nationally. All of these trees trace their origin to a small pocket of trees in Gresham.

Re: Proposed 3-Parcel partition located at 16701 NE Hassalo St., Portland

A meeting was held at Park Place Coffee, 1288 SE 182nd Ave., Portland at 6:30 pm on the above date.