.jpg/:/cr=t:0%25,l:0%25,w:100%25,h:100%25/rs=w:1209,cg:true)
Hillside park re-development starts maybe this Winter 2024
Hillside Park is just on the other (west) side of 32nd Avenue from Providence Milwaukie Hospital
There is three planned phases for Hillside Park - currently (pre-redevelopment) there are 100 small modular homes for section 8 housing vouchers comprising Hillside Park complex. Hillside is owned by Clackamas County government, Housing Authority. Above diagram highlights phase 1 of Hillside Parks redevelopment. Looks like the first phase consists of five or so four story high apartment buildings with some mixed use. Something like 200 plus housing units.
The first phase development at the south end of Hillside Park (Phase one in the diagram above here) will make units available to those displaced when the existing small modular homes are demolished and removed.
The Master Plan is rather high end like for public housing. I guess from a neighbor's perspective this might be a good thing, just remembering the public housing debacles back in the 70s with very high and concentrated public housing towers. Hopefully, services offered at this new complex don't attract behaviorally challenged homeless persons. We shall see.
Altogether, 500 new housing units will be constructed by the end of the third phase of the Hillside Park re-development project. It is said that some of the new buildings and housing units may be sold off into private property status. If so, there might be an increase in property tax revenue proceeds flowing to both Milwaukie and Clackamas County governments. You see publicly owned property is exempt from property taxes - while private property incurs property taxes.
Construction may last well into the year 2025 for Phase 1 Hillside Park re-development. Probably will negatively impact north-to-south traffic, at times, on 32nd street between Harvey and Harrison streets.
(posted by Elvis Clark on November 16, 2023)
Hillside Park before milw. planning Commission (3/23/21)
The Clackamas Housing Authority proposes 400 new housing units for Hillside Park (32nd & Meek)
The key for me is to keep Hillside Park from having a vehicle connection to the neighborhood road to the north of Hillside Park, that being 29th Avenue is currently a low volume road which fosters walking by both young and older folks.
(posted by Elvis Clark on March 21, 2021)
The Public has til 01/27/21 to comment on this development
Hillside Park and Manor are across the street from Milwaukie Providence Hospital - 32nd & Meek St.
The old Vanport-Flood-relocated-housing-modules pictured to the left above, are to be replaced with newly constructed units and bunched into one area of the 16 acre Complex.
Elsewhere on the Hillside Park grounds, 400 new additional housing units in apartments and multiplexes and some Mixed-use residential-above-retail buildings will be constructed in phases, spanning as many as 7 years.
Hillside Manor pictured to the right above is being renovated, and remaining at 100 housing units.
There may be some private or non-public charity backed/owned housing units among the 400 new and 100 replacement housing units on Hillside Park grounds, per this proposal application.
The Transportation impact assessment for this expansion supports keeping Hillside's connection to 29th Avenue, north of it, bicycle and pedestrian connection only (with exception for emergency vehicle access).
I plan to ask the City of Milwaukie if they would have the owner and developer, the Housing Authority of Clackamas County, give another public presentation, at least to the Ardenwald Neighborhood Association, before the permits are approved and public comments closed.
It's been at least a year since this project is presented to the public as a master plan.
(posted by Elvis Clark on January 17, 2021)
Council & Commission meet on hillside 10/8/19 6 pm
This Milwaukie City Hall meeting is at Milwaukie Center, North Clackamas Park- 5440 se Kellogg Creek
Here's my written testimony to City Council and Clackamas Commissioners - my seeking to improve the planned re-development of the Hillside Park public housing complex (Public comment will be taken on Hillside re-development at sometime after 6:30 pm at this 10/8 meeting):
Hello, Mayor Gamba, Council Prez Falconer, Councilors Batey, Parks, and Hyzy; and Clackamas County Chair Bernard, Commissioners Savas, Schrader, Humberston, and Fischer
I oppose at least one particular aspect of the re-development of Hillside Park (also in conjunction with Hillside Manor rehabilitation): The Re-developed Hillside Complex should not have a vehicular (auto & truck) connection onto 29th Avenue. Hillside’s direct connection to 29th should be limited to a bicycle and walking connection.
29th is considered a green way, and the Milwaukie Planning Commission seeks to eventually tie the Monroe Street greenway and 29th greenway together. Currently, 29th just north of Hillside Park is a low key road where folks take walking strolls, and is also a low impact transportation corridor for bicycling and walking to and from the Orange line station at Tacoma Station (via Spring Water Trail).
This is my most important objective in reforming the current Hillside redevelopment plan. A number of my neighbors and myself also believe the total number of housing units in Hillside should be limited to 500, and not the 600 units or so currently contemplated by plan.
I know the current discussion is on time lines, but I take this opportunity to re-iterate neighbors and my concerns about Hillside in general.
Sincerely,
Elvis Clark
Resident of Ardenwald neighborhood (wife, dog and me live a few blocks northeast of Hillside)
Active in Ardenwald Neighborhood Association and in various City issues
(posted by Elvis Clark 10/6/19)
Existing Hillside Park complex just below & below it, new Plan re-development of this public housing site. (post by Elvis on 8/13/19)
New Master Plan for Hillside Park re-do
Hillside Park public Housing re-development plan (5/30/19)
Hillside Park is located right across from Providence Hospital on 32d in Milwaukie.
Clackamas County Housing Authority is wanting to demolish the 100 existing small houses at this location, and replace them with 500 apartment like units (triplexes and four story apartments), and maybe it's more like 600 units.
The Ardenwald Neighborhood Association is originally told the total amount of units is 400, not 500 or 600.
The County wants to also add commercial office space, which might offer public assistance programs. To me this is an especially red flag. Nearby, the City of Portland like many big cities has taken to offering in ever larger amounts public assistance to homeless; and the actual net result of such programs is increased taxes for residents of these cities but also seeing the number homeless people moving to these cities increase. Property crime goes up, and safety for existing neighbors goes down.
Most of the current folks residing in these small homes at Hillside Park are said to be against the County's plan for demolishing their current homes and placing them in these larger apartment buildings.
Another thing neighbors have been told originally is this would be a multi-year plan so existing residents would only gradually be dislocated and placed in the new housing units. Looking at the County's plan from last night, I don't see this would be very economical...and the County is likely just to bull dose the site all at once...this would be my guess.
There is an on-line Clackamas County Housing Authority survey folks can take...but it is mostly rigged as you only get to select what shape of buildings and where on site you place two housing types. You don't get to choose number of total units in the new plan, or other options like more small houses.
If you factor in the McMurphy site which is a large lot of unused land just on the south of Hillside and also planned development of the McFarland site at 37th and Monroe, we could have between 1 and 2 thousand new residents located in and around 32d and Harrison. In fact, Milwaukie is projecting an overload of Harrison at Highway 224 intersection within the next 5 to 10 years.
Clackamas' online survey of Hillside Plans: https://hillside.participate.online/
(posted by Elvis Clark 5/31/19)