Portland General Electric is requesting approval to conduct utility improvements within their existing utility easement in Forest Park. These improvements include shifting the location of one power pole and rewiring a segment of existing transmission line to that new pole and installing two new poles to support a new, 1,400-foot-long segment of transmission lines. The proposed transmission line activities will result in significant impacts to 4.7 acres of natural resources within Forest Park including the removal of 376 living trees and 21 dead trees, permanent fill of two existing wetlands and impacts to two streams.
An appeal will be filed by March 21st.
After the appeal is filed, the city will schedule a public hearing at least 21 days after the filing. Written and verbal comments will be accepted at that point. We will provide key talking points for that testimony, but it will be developed after March 21st.
People should not send comments to city council until that comment period opens.