The Sacramento City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to declare a 102-acre former highway patrol test track in Meadowview surplus property and solicit private development proposals, four years after buying it for more than $12 million with plans that included a homeless “safe ground,” a youth sports complex and a cemetery. Development project manager Ginger Weagraff told the council any development would need at least $50 million in roads, utilities and basic infrastructure the city cannot afford. Under state law the parcel must first be considered for affordable housing; the city also said it may use a small portion for a new animal shelter.
Any eventual project returns to the council for approval.
The Pierce County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to award about $11.4 million from the county’s 0.1% housing sales tax to five projects, including $4.9 million for the 113-unit Fairway at DuPont and $3.5 million for the Low Income Housing Institute’s 73-unit Lincoln Family Housing in Tacoma, which sets aside 18 units for homeless households. Eleven applications had sought $35.8 million; unfunded proposals included LIHI’s Aspen Court conversion of a former Comfort Inn into permanent supportive housing. The county said 1,545 affordable homes have been built or preserved since the tax took effect.
The 0.1% sales tax was passed in 2023; the county has projected it needs more than 100,000 new units by 2044, about 77,000 of them for low-income households.
The Phoenix City Council voted Wednesday, September 23, to begin building private partnerships for a $5 million master leasing pilot in which the city leases apartments from landlords and subleases them to people leaving the shelter system who would fail credit or eviction screening. The program would start with at least 50 units and is funded through a combination of federal funds and the city's Office of Homeless Solutions. The nonprofit A New Leaf said it would help identify shelter residents who are employed and stable but blocked by rental history.
The Bangor City Council voted unanimously Monday night not to fund a local version of Portland, Maine's Project HOPE, which would have hired a coordinator and three housing navigators through three local shelters to move people from encampments into apartments. MaineHousing had offered to cover 70% of the cost, leaving the city to contribute $126,000; councilors said they could not agree on a funding source among opioid settlement funds, the unassigned fund balance, or a community development block grant. Councilor Susan Faloon said the vote meant saying no to $300,000 in state funding.
A motion to postpone failed 3-5, with Deane, Faloon and Leonard in favor.
Portland Mercury · on the Zenith–ISQ franchise transfer, approved on a 6–6 tie
On September 23 the council voted 7–5 to reconsider the Zenith franchise transfer that had failed 5–6 with one absence on September 16; Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos and Kanal opposed reconsidering, and Council President Dunphy joined Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney and Ryan to reopen it. The revote tied 6–6, with all six progressive-caucus members including Dunphy voting no, and Mayor Keith Wilson broke the tie to approve the transfer to ISQ Springer Holdings, his second tie-breaking vote since taking office. Dunphy told Willamette Week he voted to reconsider because he "hoped that there could be some negotiations to find mutually agreeable conditions," and the paper reported no such agreement was reached; Morillo posted that she voted no "because I believe accountability is not optional."
The Green–Morillo citizen-enforcement amendment to the same ordinance failed 6–6 on September 9, and Zenith sued the city in U.S. District Court in July over the delay.
KOIN · on the CEI Hub fuel-storage reduction ordinances and the Green-led amendment
On September 24 the council held a first hearing on two Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub ordinances (2026-311 and 2026-312) that would require the hub's 11 bulk fuel terminals to cut storage capacity by at least 20% by December 1, 2036, then closed the oral record and continued both items to October 1. Councilor Green, with co-sponsors Pirtle-Guiney, Kanal, Clark and Koyama Lane, filed an amendment directing the city administrator to report alternative reduction approaches by September 1, 2027, deleting the aviation-fuel exemption, and moving to annual reporting; Councilor Novick filed three amendments of his own. KOIN reported a McCullough Research paper describing the risks from wildfire, flood and a Cascadia earthquake as "grave."
The written record closes October 1 at noon and the hearing resumes at 2 p.m. that day, time certain.
KPTV · on the Green, Pirtle-Guiney, Morillo and Koyama Lane psychedelics ordinance
The council on September 23 passed to second reading, as amended, an ordinance introduced by Councilors Green, Pirtle-Guiney, Morillo and Koyama Lane that would make personal, non-commercial use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants and fungi one of the city's lowest police priorities and create a Portland Psychedelics Advisory Commission, according to the council record. Green, an Army veteran, told the chamber "I share the PTSD that many of you have for my service, and I think that's why I chose to throw my support behind this ordinance." City officials said the financial impact would be minimal and paid from existing budgets; police would still investigate sales and impaired driving.
The ordinance (2026-186) is scheduled for second reading and final vote on September 30.
Worcester city councilors on Tuesday rejected City Manager Eric Batista's proposed encampment ordinance, which would have fined homeless people $25 per infraction for camping in tents, sleeping on streets or sidewalks, or living in vehicles parked 24 consecutive hours in public lots. Councilor Gary Rosen filed a motion, supported by most councilors, sending the broader homelessness strategy back to Batista with instructions to remove the ordinance. Councilor Khrystian King called the measure a "homeless incarceration act" and said the city failed to consult social service experts.
This year's point-in-time count identified 1,187 unhoused people in Worcester County, down from 2,862 last year, against a supply of 197 permanent shelter beds across four shelters.
Rochester City Council postponed its expected Tuesday vote on a plan to spend $1.15 million from the city's opioid compensation fund to reopen Peace Village, the city's only sanctioned homeless encampment, until a special meeting October 6. The legislation would authorize an agreement with City Roots Community Land Trust to operate 19 shelters on Industrial Street for adults 18 and older, with an on-site case management team, funded through the 2026-2027 fiscal year. Council members Mary Lupien, Stanley Martin and Kim Smith have proposed a "no barrier" model with no armed security and no personal information shared with police.
Rochester's homeless population has increased by 345 people over the last six years, a nearly 34% rise, according to this year's report from the city council president.
The Jefferson City Council voted 6-3 Monday, with one abstention, to reject a rezoning proposal that would have allowed the seasonal shelter Room at the Inn to relocate and expand to 107 Adams St. The shelter currently operates 20 beds out of First Baptist Church during winter months; the new location would have housed 30 people a night and added a daytime resource center. Board president Scott Johnston said the group will continue searching for a location.
The Jefferson City Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-3 in June against recommending the rezoning.
The Modesto City Council approved $591,000 on Tuesday as a consent item to sustain The Salvation Army's homeless services on South Ninth Street, comprising $491,000 from the state's Permanent Local Housing Allocation program and $100,000 from the city's Cannabis Community Benefit fund. The vote was 6-0, with Councilman Jeremiah Williams recused. A city staff report said the money covers staffing, program administration and facility costs at the shelter campus.
Stanislaus County supervisors had earlier approved an amendment with The Salvation Army, which operates the shelter, extending operations only through September.
The Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday passed Councilmember Dan Strauss's package of bills that would ban RVs without permits from parking overnight on most streets. The program requires people living in RVs to park in designated areas and discuss shelter options with service providers; those who do not participate could lose their vehicles after a few warnings. Strauss said the package would encourage people to move into more stable housing.
The legislation next goes to the full City Council for a vote.
Westside Current · on the Homes for LA Round 2 affordable-housing funding round
The Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 Tuesday to authorize the Los Angeles Housing Department, subject to mayoral approval, to release the Homes for LA Round 2 regulations and open a $466.6 million affordable-housing funding round, led by $324.1 million from Measure ULA revenue. Housing Committee chair Imelda Padilla spoke in support of new quarterly oversight requirements attached to the round.
The $466.6 million round opens only after mayoral approval of the released regulations; no money is awarded by the vote itself.
The Jacksonville City Council approved a $2 billion budget Tuesday by an 18-1 vote, reversing the Finance Committee's August move to strike a new $4.9 million affordable housing trust fund; Council member Matt Carlucci's restoration amendment passed 12-7. The trust fund includes $2 million for down payment assistance, $1.4 million for capital stack funding and $1.5 million for attainable housing utility tap fees. An amendment to restore $500,000 held back from United Way eviction diversion failed, leaving that program at half its city funding.
If Florida voters approve the Amendment 3 homestead property tax cut on November 3, the held-back contingency money goes to reserves against a projected $300 million revenue shortfall by 2028.
Portland City Council record · on the failed Zenith–ISQ franchise transfer ordinance
The council failed to pass consent to transfer the Zenith Energy fuels franchise to ISQ Springer Holdings on second reading, 5 aye to 6 nay with Loretta Smith absent: Novick, Clark, Zimmerman, Pirtle-Guiney, and Ryan voted aye; Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, Kanal, and Dunphy voted nay. A Green–Morillo amendment that would have let affected residents ask the courts to enforce the franchise had failed 6–6 at the September 9 first reading. A motion to reconsider is pending after the council voted 8–4 to postpone it to the September 23 session.
A committee motion to refer the ordinance to council with a recommendation to pass carried 7–5 on August 6, with Dunphy and Smith joining the aye side.
The Encinitas City Council voted unanimously on September 16 to end its shelter partnership with Vista's Buena Creek Navigation Center and instead contract with the San Diego Rescue Mission for up to 12 dedicated beds at its South County Lighthouse facility in National City. The Rescue Mission beds would cost $87 per occupied bed per night, with an annual maximum of $381,060; staying at Buena Creek would have cost an estimated $715,000 annually, up from $488,758 in fiscal year 2025-26.
A staff report identified potential state funding of $684,575 over five years through the Permanent Local Housing Allocation program.
The council voted unanimously Wednesday to urge city administrators not to sign nondisclosure agreements with prospective data center developers and to explore a moratorium on new data centers in the city limits. The resolution was introduced by Councilors Tiffany Koyama Lane and Mitch Green.
The adopted resolution also requests council notification for any data-center project with a current or projected power draw of 20 megawatts or greater.
The Dutchess County Legislature approved 23-2 an agreement to move forward with a homeless shelter at 26 Oakley Street in Poughkeepsie, funded by a $13 million grant from the state's Homeless Housing and Assistance Program. Lawmakers also passed resolutions creating a county homelessness action plan and adding three staff to an outreach team for chronically unhoused individuals; residents objected that shelters and services are concentrated in specific city neighborhoods.
The shelter carries an eight-year sunset period, after which it transitions to serving single women and/or families only, and the county committed not to construct more emergency shelters in the city for 35 years.
My Ballard · on Seattle's Vehicle Resident Assistance Program six-bill package
The Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee held its first briefing on Councilmember Dan Strauss's Vehicle Resident Assistance Program package, with a committee vote scheduled for September 22 and a full council vote expected in October. The legislation directs $5 million in existing city funding toward safe lots, vehicle storage, and outreach, creates permits allowing people to keep living in motorhomes or travel trailers on city streets while awaiting shelter, and limits unpermitted motorhomes and travel trailers to two hours of street parking at a time.
The Renton City Council voted Monday night to send a proposed camping ordinance back to its Committee of the Whole after roughly two hours of public testimony. The ordinance as written would prohibit camping, storing personal items and keeping shopping carts on city property, with violations of trespass orders punishable by up to 90 days in jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both. Councilmember James Alberson proposed amending the language so people are "encouraged to accept a referral" rather than required to accept services; the city attorney said the ordinance is unenforceable as written unless the council determines consequences for people who decline services.
Neighboring Tukwila's camping ban took effect July 28, and its police chief said no arrests or citations have been issued under it.
Portland City Council · on the Zenith–ISQ franchise transfer and the Green-Morillo amendment vote
The council took up consent to the franchise transfer from Zenith Energy Terminals Holdings LLC to ISQ Springer Holdings LLC (document 2026-263). The Green-Morillo 1 amendment, which Councilor Morillo said would allow affected residents to ask the courts to enforce the franchise if ISQ violates its terms and the city fails to act, failed on a 6–6 tie, with Council President Dunphy joining Koyama Lane, Morillo, Green, Avalos, and Kanal in favor. The ordinance passed to second reading, scheduled for September 16.
Morillo and Green introduced the amendment at the September 2 council meeting; the second reading is on the September 16 agenda.
The council voted 8–4 to adopt recommendations advancing a Broadway-capable performing arts venue at Portland State University while initiating planning for the Keller Auditorium's future. KPTV reported the new venue's cost is estimated at around $450 million. The left bloc split: Green and Avalos voted aye; Koyama Lane, Morillo, and Kanal voted nay, joined by Dan Ryan.
The official roll call: Aye (8) Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney, Dunphy; Nay (4) Koyama Lane, Morillo, Kanal, Ryan.
Phoenix City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a zoning change extending the special permit for the city's Safe Outdoor Space, a sanctioned camping site that opened in 2023. The 5.5-acre property at 15th Avenue and Jackson Street can hold up to 200 camp sites, with tents provided by the city under a shade structure. Vice Mayor Kesha Hodge Washington credited the city's Office of Homeless Solutions for its work with residents at the site.
The site opened in 2023 near the former "Zone" encampment, which a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ordered Phoenix to clear that year.
KPTV reported the council will vote Wednesday on a resolution directing city officials to refuse non-disclosure agreements over potential data center projects and requiring staff to alert councilors when a company seeks a preliminary meeting or permit for a facility drawing 20 megawatts or more; the resolution is on the September 16 council agenda. It is sponsored by Councilors Koyama Lane, Green, Avalos, Pirtle-Guiney, and Kanal; city documents accompanying it say data centers consume 5.6% of Oregon's electricity, and Portland hosts 17 smaller data centers with no hyperscale facilities.
Hillsboro's city council enacted a 120-day moratorium on new data center developments earlier this summer.
The Jackson, Michigan City Council voted 4-3 on September 8 to approve an ordinance prohibiting tents on public property and allowing seizure of unattended property, and of attended property exceeding a 32-gallon container, following posted notice. The ordinance takes effect in 30 days. It was drafted in July after a since-removed homeless encampment developed downtown; opponents at public comment said it would make life harder for the city's homeless population.
An August second-reading vote was postponed because Vice Mayor Freddie Dancy was absent and three councilmembers said they would vote no, which would have defeated the measure.
The Portland City Council voted 12–0 Thursday to approve beginning negotiations with Albina Vision Trust, a Black-led redevelopment nonprofit, over city-owned property next to the Moda Center that currently consists of two parking lots. The trust's master plan calls for housing, commercial storefronts, public plazas and riverfront access across a 94-acre section of Lower Albina; executive director Winta Yohannes and Black business owners and developers testified in support before the vote.
The vote comes as Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon seeks nearly $600 million in public funding for a Moda Center renovation, with a binding council vote on the arena deal expected in December 2026.
Portland City Council · on the Green–Morillo amendment to the Zenith–ISQ franchise transfer
The council took up consent to the franchise transfer from Zenith Energy Terminals Holdings LLC to ISQ Springer Holdings, LLC (document 2026-263) on September 2. Councilors Mitch Green and Angelita Morillo moved amendment "Green-Morillo 1," which Morillo said would let affected residents ask the courts to enforce the franchise if ISQ violates its terms and the city fails to act. The vote was not called, and the item was continued to September 9 at 9:30 a.m.
Green wrote in a September 1 newsletter that he voted no on the transfer in committee, where it passed out of the Committee of the Whole with 7 yes votes and 5 no votes.
The Housing and Permitting Committee voted 4–0 to advance a resolution introduced by Councilors Angelita Morillo, Tiffany Koyama Lane and Mitch Green urging City Administrator Raymond C. Lee III not to enter nondisclosure agreements with data center builders. Koyama Lane submitted an amendment stating that the council "intends to pursue moratorium or zoning restriction on all hyperscale data centers at the earliest time and to consider additional approaches for large-load data centers." The resolution does not ban data centers or legally prohibit NDAs; the item was added to the September 9 council agenda.
Six Democratic state legislators proposed a statewide three-year moratorium on large-scale data centers in August, with the bill to be introduced in 2027.
Willamette Week reported that Portland water rates rose 8.1% and sewer and stormwater rates 5.15% beginning July 1, increases the Water Bureau attributed in part to Gresham and the Rockwood Water People's Utility District leaving the Bull Run customer base. The Bull Run Filtration Project is now expected to conclude by 2029 at a cost of $2.58 billion. A correction to the article states the council vote authorizing additional debt for the project was opposed by Councilors Angelita Morillo and Mitch Green and Council President Jamie Dunphy; Green posted September 3 that he voted no because household water rates "will go up about 10% for several years."
The Tualatin Valley Water District, Portland's largest wholesale customer with 166,000 residents, is next scheduled to leave the city's water system.
Denver City Council's Community Planning and Housing Committee voted Tuesday, September 1, to advance a one-year continuation of the Department of Housing Stability's housing and homelessness strategy through 2027, sending it to the full council for adoption. The 2027 targets include developing at least 930 housing units, preserving at least 490 income-restricted apartments, sheltering at least 12,000 unique households, and reducing overall homelessness by 30% compared with 2024. Committee members asked HOST for more detailed eviction, funding, racial-equity and family-homelessness data.
HOST's citywide Housing Needs Assessment is expected by December 2026, with the next long-range strategy due September 1, 2027.
The Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved the first phase of a pilot parking permit program for people living in RVs on Coyote Hill Road and Embarcadero Road, while declining to advance a companion proposal that would have designated one side of 21 residential blocks for RV parking, 13 of them in the Ventura neighborhood. The permit pilot would accommodate around three dozen RVs and cost about $400,000 for the first year and a little over $200,000 to maintain after that. Council members directed staff to continue exploring other RV parking sites locally and regionally and to collect demographic data on residents living in RVs.
The permit pilot could begin as soon as March 2027.
The Vancouver City Council on Monday approved a land disposition and development agreement with Vancouver Heights Senior Housing Partners for a 51-unit senior building in the Heights District, for residents 55 and older earning 30 to 60 percent of area median income. The project will cost $26.7 million total, roughly $524,000 per unit, with the city investing about $2.8 million including $2 million from its Affordable Housing Fund. The terms set a 99-year ground lease and require the units to stay affordable for at least 40 years, with construction to begin around July 2028 and finish around July 2030.
The council approved the companion 80-unit family building's disposition and development agreement on October 13, 2025; the two buildings total 131 affordable units on the former Tower Mall site.
The San Diego City Council on Monday repealed 2022's Measure C, which had exempted the Midway District from the city's 30-foot coastal height limit until a judge invalidated the measure on environmental-review grounds; Councilmember Jennifer Campbell said the city had to comply or face contempt fines after the California Supreme Court declined to take the case. The repeal affects Midway Rising, the plan to redevelop the 48.5-acre Sports Arena property with a new arena and 4,254 apartments, 2,000 of them affordable to low-income renters; a bill from state Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson to shield the project from future environmental lawsuits needs two-thirds majorities in both chambers by August 31.
A similar Midway height-limit measure approved by voters in 2020 was also overturned in court; in both cases judges found the city had not analyzed the environmental impacts of taller buildings.
Councilmember Dan Strauss's RV legislation package allocates $5 million — $1.5 million one-time and $3.5 million ongoing — and funds eight new positions, pairing a one-time permit program for people living in RVs with a ban on RV street parking from midnight to 6 a.m. and a two-hour daytime limit. Permit holders could decline up to six shelter or housing offers before losing the permit; the city's Unified Care Team has tallied 145 vehicles meeting the program's definition, a figure Strauss said he believes is an undercount. The package sets an April 30 deadline to stand up the permit program and parking restrictions, with enforcement beginning by July 31.
Strauss said he expects the public safety committee to discuss the package again on or before September 22; one safe-parking lot, Glassyard Commons in West Seattle, opens in November.
Shelterforce reported that the Portland City Council's April 2026 approval of an initial $17.5 million investment in social housing — part of a $56 million package drawn from previously unbudgeted housing funds — is letting the city pilot a revolving loan fund to acquire property for permanently affordable housing. The piece reports that the discovery of the unbudgeted funds raised questions about administration of the Portland Housing Bureau's roughly $244 million 2025–2026 budget.
The study ordered by an April 2025 council resolution is expected to release its final report by the end of August 2026.
Chula Vista and Imperial Beach approved a two-year agreement letting Imperial Beach place eligible unsheltered residents in Chula Vista's 62-unit Village at Otay pallet shelter, with Imperial Beach reimbursing $90.60 per night per participant. The Chula Vista council approved it 4-1 Tuesday, with the dissenter citing a lack of regional and county involvement; Imperial Beach's council followed unanimously Wednesday. Chula Vista will also administer tenant-based rental assistance of up to 24 months on Imperial Beach's behalf.
The shelter has operated since May 2023 and served 210 people, with 39 exits to housing between July 2025 and June 2026.
Mayor Keith Wilson endorsed Kellie Torres, a longtime Parks Bureau official, for a District 3 council seat, and said he plans to endorse incumbents Steve Novick, Olivia Clark and Eric Zimmerman for reelection in November. The District 3 incumbents include two Democratic Socialists of America members who have criticized Wilson's shelter expansion push and his support for the Moda Center renovation. Both council factions view the election as a chance to secure a seventh seat on the 12-member body and end its recurring 6-6 stalemates.
The council's January 2026 attempt to elect a council president failed amid repeated 6-6 votes.
LAist · on the removal of 41.18 anti-camping zones in LA's Council District 13
The Los Angeles City Council voted 10-3 Tuesday to erase some Municipal Code 41.18 zones — areas where unhoused people cannot sit, lie, sleep, or keep belongings — in Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez's district, covering underpasses in Silver Lake and Echo Park and 101 Freeway overpasses in Hollywood. Soto-Martinez, who introduced the motion to remove zones established by his predecessor Mitch O'Farrell, said he believed it was the first effort to have 41.18 zones removed rather than put in place. Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, voting no, said the law "was never intended to be the solution to our homeless problem" but is "about protecting public spaces."
A 2023 report from the city's lead homelessness agency concluded the 41.18 policy had not kept most areas clear of encampments and was "generally ineffective" at connecting people to housing.
Councilmember Dan Strauss's six-bill RV package was submitted to the City Council's Public Safety Committee this week, including a measure that would ban RVs more than 6 feet 8 inches wide from residential streets starting in July 2027, restricting them to permitted overnight parking in industrial zones. Strauss said unpermitted RV residents would get three warnings before towing. Critics including We Heart Seattle and the Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness questioned the balance between the punitive and support elements of the package.
The package as announced August 7 included $5 million to move people out of vehicle homelessness, and a companion bill would cap RV residency permits near 500 people.
The Portland Planning Commission voted unanimously on July 14 to send the Central City Code Amendments Project, a package of downtown zoning changes aimed at converting empty office space to housing, to City Council. Downtown office vacancy stood at 29.6% in the second quarter of 2026, according to a Kidder Mathews report. The current draft raises height limits for qualifying residential projects but contains no financial incentives.
A City Council vote on the package is expected this fall or winter.
Trail Blazers representatives agreed to meet city negotiators on Monday, Aug. 17, to discuss terms of a 20-year lease, with the city agreeing to spend nearly $400 million to renovate the Moda Center. The term sheet setting the negotiation framework passed the council 8-4, with Mitch Green, Candace Avalos, Angelita Morillo, and Tiffany Koyama Lane voting no. Councilors asked negotiators to press for additional private investment from the team, a request the Blazers previously called a "nonstarter."
A deciding council vote on the lease terms is expected Dec. 17; the state's $365 million commitment lapses if no lease is signed by year-end.
The council's five-person City Life Committee voted unanimously Aug. 11 to advance a resolution giving Albina Vision Trust the first opportunity to negotiate redevelopment of city-owned parcels next to the Moda Center — two parking garages north of the arena and a green space to its south. District 2 councilors Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Sameer Kanal and Dan Ryan introduced the proposal; Councilor Angelita Morillo raised concerns about giving sole preference to one nonprofit. The measure goes to a full council vote later this summer.
The full council approved the Moda Center renovation term sheet the next day; Albina Vision Trust's stated goal is revitalizing 94 acres of the historic Albina neighborhood.
Portland City Council voted 8-4 on August 12 to approve a nonbinding term sheet committing $120 million in city funds toward an estimated $600 million Moda Center renovation, in exchange for seeking a 20-year lease with the Trail Blazers. Councilors Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, Angelita Morillo, and Candace Avalos voted no; progressive-caucus colleague Sameer Kanal and Council President Jamie Dunphy voted yes, with Kanal saying "I believe that if council doesn't pass a term sheet today, negotiations are done." Green told the council the city was entering into the "worst deal in the country," per the Portland Mercury.
On August 6 the council advanced the unamended term sheet on a 7-5 vote after rejecting every proposed amendment.
Portland Mercury · on the amendment roll calls on the Moda Center term sheet
The council passed three amendments to the Moda Center term sheet on August 12; the Mercury reported that, except for Councilor Steve Novick's rent amendment, all were revamped versions of proposals progressive councilors introduced the prior week. Novick's amendment raising the Blazers' proposed annual rent from $2 million to $3.17 million passed 7-5. An amendment from Angelita Morillo and Sameer Kanal requiring the administration to report opportunity costs to the council 15 days before any financial vote failed on a 6-6 tie.
The prior week the council voted against all 11 proposed amendments to the term sheet.
The council's five-member City Life Committee voted unanimously on August 11 to advance a proposal giving Albina Vision Trust the first chance to redevelop city-owned parcels adjacent to the Moda Center; District 2 councilors Elana Pirtle-Guiney, Sameer Kanal, and Dan Ryan jointly introduced it. Angelita Morillo voted to advance the plan but said it gave sole preference to one nonprofit: "We can just have a harder discussion at full council, because this committee is unwilling to do some of the hard work here."
The proposal goes to a full council vote later this summer.