![]() ![]() Then the pandemic hit and Katz - along with the 80 or so members of the Facebook group - decided to pivot.Ī busy section of Hawthorne via Google Streetview. “We’re going to design plans to make Hawthorne (from SE 32nd to Cesar Chavez) a beautiful, car-free promenade with bus-only lanes.” Katz found lots of local support for the idea, enlisted an illustrator to design some mock-ups, and was building the proposal. “Hawthorne deserves so much better,” he wrote on Hawthorne Promenade Facebook page on February 29th. Katz, an entrepreneur famous for being that, “ 23-Year-Old Dude in Portland Making a Living Selling Framed Tweets,” saw an opportunity. A repaving project cannot do everything, but it provides an opportunity to consider changes to improve safety, comfort, and function for people and businesses.” Even so, a PBOT spokesperson told us back in January, “We know how important Hawthorne is in our road network and we think this is an opportunity to do something big and bold.” And open house materials shared in March offered even more teasing words, “After the repave we will have a new, blank pavement surface. Given Hawthorne’s prominence and planning history, the agency isn’t eager to bump the hornet’s nest prematurely. PBOT was coy about the project, as they often are before they’ve had the requisite open houses and committee meetings. One of the initial ideas on the table was to change the cross-section from four standard lanes to three lanes and a center turn lane. As we covered in January, PBOT was set to launch the outreach process to redesign Hawthorne’s bustling commercial corridor between SE 24th and 50th. It was his response to the Portland Bureau of Transportation “Paint and Pave” project. Portlander Zach Katz started a grassroots campaign on Facebook back in February to build what he called the “Hawthorne Promenade”. “If enough people ask for it, it’s very likely that the project will get done… I’m extremely optimistic we can make this happen!” ![]()
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