Conservationists find eager sellers in new real estate market
The Oregonian
by Matthew Preusch, The OregonianIf while hiking through Portland's new woods at Clatsop Butte Park you pause among the cedars with their brightly budding conelets, thank the recession for this moment of Zen.
Two years ago the 27 acres in Southeast Portland were platted for 65
homes: the Waterleaf subdivision. The patch of cedars might be
Southeast Aston Street by now had the housing market not collapsed and
the developer decided to sell his still unbuilt parcel to the Trust for
Public Land, which conveyed it to the city for a park.
It's what Owen Wozniak, who managed the Clatsop
Butte project for the trust, calls a "green lining" -- bad times for
builders mean more opportunities for conservation.
