Homestead Neighborhood Association

Homestead Neighborhood Association

Homestead Neighborhood Association Celebrates Its 30th Year!

The Homestead Neighborhood Association has been recognized by the City of Portland in more or less its current configuration since the inception of the citywide neighborhood system in 1974.

Please go to

http://www.homesteadna.org/

to view our official web-site and to learn more

about our neighborhood.

We have beautiful residential neighborhoods, large institutional and residential facilities such as OHSU, The VA Hospital, and Terwilliger Plaza, and hundreds of acres of undeveloped forests and parks, all just a couple minutes from downtown.

The Homestead Neighborhood Association is comprised of board members and committee chairs. Together, we monitor issues large and small that affect our community. While we are a diverse group, what unites us is that we all care deeply about where our neighborhood is going.

In our 30 years, Homestead N.A. has done much to preserve and enhance the livability of our wonderful neighborhood. We have worked to preserve natural areas, get trails built, limit OHSU expansion, reduce the impacts of OHSU and the VA Hospital, participated in the creation of the Terwilliger Parkway Study and Plan, and developed a Neighborhood Master Plan, and much more. Over the last 3 years we have taken a very active role in the Marquam Hill Plan, the Aerial Tram project, and are closely tracking the development of several new OHSU buildings to assure that their impact on our parks and residences is minimized.

The most exciting recent success has been the preservation of nearly 100 acres of undeveloped forest land between Terwilliger Parkway and Marquam Nature Park, adjacent to OHSU. Homestead N.A. lobbied for preservation of these lands during the Marquam Hill Plan process, which in conjunction with Terwilliger and Marquam Park forms a continuous “green-belt” around the intensely developed Marquam Hill and which will contain its growth.