LO Review’s Corey Buchanan summarizes a major contention with the proposed Clackamas County Stafford Improvement project’s design impacts on charter- and deed- protected Stevens Meadow. You can read Corey’s…
As the Lake Oswego community celebrates Earth Day, we also celebrate the passage of the voter-ratified city charter land use regulations that ensure all development within 15 nature preserves…
Chris Durkee thanks the Lake Oswego City Council “for taking such a strong stand in explaining to the county engineers that the Charter’s recent amendment is not a matter…
We celebrate Earth day as a reminder to be better stewards of the natural environment and strive to lessen our impact on all living things that call it home….
At this week’s City Council Meeting, Council and the public heard from Clackamas County on the Stafford Improvement Project. Not only has the public been left in the dark,…
Lake Oswego City Council Meeting – April 16, 2024 RE: Clackamas County’s Stafford | Childs Intersection Improvements and Stevens Meadows Nature Preserve City Council: The Lake Oswego community executed…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – March 7, 2024 – LoveLOParks issues the following statement regarding Clackamas County Circuit Court’s ruling in case 24CV03746 confirming Lake Oswego City…
Lake Oswego Review’s Cory Buchanon provides an update on the a land use application conflict that Lake Forest NA, LoveLOParks, and LO residents say is in violation of the…
The DRC held the second meeting on the proposed development for a sewer line through Waluga Park – West, a protected Nature Preserve in our City Charter Chapter X….
Lake Oswego Review’s Cory Buchanon reports on the a land use application conflict that Lake Forest NA, LoveLOParks, and LO residents say is in violation of the City’s Charter,…
A public hearing for LU 23-0002 before the Development Review Commission was held on November 20, 2023. The Deputy City Attorney expressed to the DRC that City staff believes…
Michael Louailler shares a joint statement from the the LoveLOParks Steering Committee and Lake Forest NA with the Lake Oswego community on a land use application that violates voter-ratified…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 10, 2023 – LoveLOParks Steering Committee and Lake Forest Neighborhood Association (Lake Forest NA) issue a joint statement strongly condemning the…
Lake Oswego Parks & Recreation is updating its long-range Parks, Recreation, and Natural Areas System Plan for the year 2040. The current Plan (“Parks Plan 2025”) was adopted in…
At the December 20, 2022, City council meeting (agenda and video), Lake Oswego City Council adopted Resolution 20-32: Natural Areas Habitat Management Plan. Per the Natural Areas Management Plan:…
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 – 4:00pm to 6:00pmMaintenance Center, 17601 Pilkington Road With support and review from key stakeholders in our restoration community, City Parks staff and members of…
Our city’s natural resources continue to dominate Lake Oswego dialog with citizens seeking a balance between preservation and development. Lake Oswego voters have an opportunity to consider 6 candidates…
Mayor Buck opened yesterday’s City Council meeting with a statement regarding Measure 3-568. While not a formal apology for City Council’s incendiary comments, Mayor Buck vowed to “not bring…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – January 15, 2022 – LoveLOParks Steering Committee issues statements condemning Lake Oswego City Council’s rebuke of Lake Oswego voters for ratifying citizen-initiated…
With the passage of the citizens’ Measure 3-568, Lake Oswego voters have chosen to leave an everlasting legacy of wilderness to future generations. They have chosen to help in…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 2, 2021 – LoveLOParks announces Citizen-initiated Measure 3-568 passes to enact legal safeguards to limit development in Lake Oswego natural parks….
On behalf of every volunteer, donor, and 4,800+ petition signers, the LoveLOParks Steering Committee hopes you’ll join us and vote YES on citizen-initiated Measure 3-568 — the only natural…
Springbrook Park, Canal Acres, Bryant Woods, Cooks Butte, and Stevens Meadows are examples of natural habitats within our neighborhoods resulting from grantors’ foresight to convey development restrictions and/or decades…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – September 4, 2021 – LoveLOParks is pleased to announce that, after careful review of Lake Oswego’s two competing natural park measures on…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – August 24, 2021 – LoveLOParks is pleased to announce that Oregon Wild has endorsed citizen-initiated Measure 3-568. Founded in 1974, Oregon Wild’s…
After negotiations with seller and encouragement from the community, city bought 2-acre parcel for $1.65 million. READ THE ARTICLE
Updated: August 1, 2021 On June 23, 2023, the Clackamas County Elections Office certified that our citizen initiative petition, 2020IN-1, exceeded the 4,365 signatures required thereby qualifying our citizen…
Citizens from all across Lake Oswego have signed our citizen initiative petition, 2020IN-1, to protect our natural parks from development that’s inconsistent with maintaining them as natural habitats. Not…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – July 7, 2021 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is pleased to announce that citizen initiative petition 2020IN-1 has obtained enough signatures…
Lake Oswego residents held a rally on Monday, September 21, 2020, to save Hallinan Woods. Rally goers brought awareness and urgency to preserving the 2-acre Yates property adjacent to…
The Coalition for Hallinan Woods Nature Park is raising awareness of an opportunity to increase the footprint of Hallinan Woods, a 3.8-acre natural area, by ~53% (bringing it to…
Shocking photos of Woodmont Natural Park, located in the Forest Highlands Neighborhood, shared by a neighbor who is disappointed at the destruction of natural habitat. Woodmont’s 6.8 acre of…
(What mysteries await us at the top?) Just on the other side of Stafford Hamlet… In this episode of Around the Neighborhood, a show about the quest for fun,…
Scott Handley, Chief Petitioner, introduced the community’s prospective petition initiative, 2020IN-1, to City Council. After Scott’s comments, several Councilors asked questions about the initiative. Watch and read below. Subject:…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – December 12, 2019 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is pleased to announce that citizen initiative petition 2020IN-1 has received approval to…
Today at the City Council meeting, Scott Handley spoke during Citizen Comment to bring closure for everyone who supported the Save Cooks Butte effort. Below is the City Council…
LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 14, 2019 – Love Lake Oswego Parks Committee is pleased to announce that Lake Oswego’s Elections Officer, Ann-Marie Simpson, has confirmed that our Prospective…
The grassroots movement led by passionate Lake Oswego community members to preserve Cooks Butte Park in its most natural state earned a victory this week… READ THE ARTICLE Citizen’s…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LAKE OSWEGO, Oregon – November 6, 2019 – Save Cooks Butte announced two major developments at our Protect LO Natural Parks Open House at the Lake…
Residents, City at odds over communications tower at Cooks Butte On September 18, Clara Howell, a reporter for the Lake Oswego Review, visited Cooks Butte accompanied by several concerned…
