DMA MISSION, VISION, AND EQUITY STATEMENTS

Dear DMA community,

Division Midway Alliance is pleased to share our new mission, vision, and values. Our new "brand" reflects our perception of a prosperous and equitable community and a future where Division street becomes the model for all other neighborhoods! Our new mission statement is "a place-based nonprofit creating social resiliency and economic prosperity for residents and businesses. We work to achieve equity – in resources, opportunity, and quality of life for diverse communities". 

In the coming days, DMA staff and board members will be hard at work in implementing strategies, providing grants, and conducting community outreach in ensuring that we achieve equity not only as a community organization, but also as a key feature of community success!

You can find our statements here @ http://divisionmidway.org/about/ 

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY DIALOGUE ON DISPLACEMENT, RELOCATION, & PLACEMAKING

              

When: Friday, October 16 & Monday, October 19th 
From: 2:00pm to 4:30pm

Our goal is to create a space in which community members can come together and share their lived experiences and/or learn more about displacement, relocation, and placemaking. We will have guest speakers from the Bureau of Sustainability and the Portland Housing Bureau. Participants will also have the opportunity to brainstorm different forms in which placemaking can be made possible in SE Portland with the different infrastructure projects occurring in the area.

We are currently looking for 15 community members who want to participate in the dialogue. They must be able to attend both virtual meetings. Participants will receive a $50 gift card. 

REIMAGINING PUBLIC SAFETY: TRIMET SURVEY

The project is about ensuring safety for transit users and creating policies by reducing existing Transit Police contracts by six positions and redirecting an additional $1.8 million of our security budget to community-based public safety. DMA collaborated with TRIMET and conducted 50 interviews (30 non-English and 20 English) and 2 Focus Groups (1 in English and 1 in Karen language)

Trimet general surveys can be found here.


SLOW STREETS INITIATIVE

INITIATION OF PORTLAND'S PHASE 2 ROLLOUT OF SLOW STREETS 

Background. In response to COVID and the need for physical distancing, PBOT initiated a Slow Streets program as part of our Safe Streets Initiative. This initiative represents one important focus of the agency in responding to the COVID-19 public health crisis. The Safe Streets initiative turns sections of our neighborhood greenway streets into “local access only.” The intent is to help limit traffic to essential trips (including emergency access) and deliveries. It will make these streets more accessible for everyone and providing more space to get outside for fresh air as we are practicing social distancing. 
 

Phase 1. The implementation installs orange construction barrels, A-boards, and signs at the key intersection to encourage people driving to “Go Slow” and treat the streets as local access, only. The initial installation (“Phase 1”), targeted the existing 103 miles of neighborhood greenways. A typical installation is shown in Figure 1.

Phase 2. The Phase 1 installation left uncovered areas of the city without existing neighborhood greenways, identified by the circled areas in Figure 2. Phase 2 will treat another 32 miles of roadways that are future neighborhood greenways that have either been funded or identified in the recently adopted Southwest in Motion (SWIM) Plan. Seventy-nine (79) intersections are targeted for installation in Phase 2 and are shown as green dots in Figure 2. We intend to order enough materials for an additional, twenty (20) as-yet unidentified intersections in order to respond to community requests. 

PBOT’s contractor, Axiom Event Productions, manages the Phase 1 installations and are ready to proceed with Phase 2. PBOT will send a mailer to all residences along or adjacent to the targeted corridors to provide notice and describe the treatment. Once Phase 2 installations are approved, it will take approximately two weeks to begin work.


     















To find out more about the implementation of the Slow Streets Initiative, please visit PBOT's website @ https://www.portland.gov/transportation/safestreetspdx  or you can go to @ https://www.portland.gov/eudaly/news/2020/5/1/slow-streets-safe-streets-neighborhood-greenway-map