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Originally Posted by Derek
Why anybody would be against this project is beyond me.
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In a word, Renters.
Lake O is a community of wealthy sprawling single family homes. They do not want renters. The opposition is primarily using very exclusionary language and is similar to the Clackamas County "Anti-Portlandification", "Stop Portland Creep" crowd.
They see light rail users and renters as a lower class of people and are suspicious that those things bring darker skinned, poor, and crime into their area. Many have been on the record as saying that if these were expensive condos, they would not mind the project.