Live/Work is a slippery slope. I previously lived in NYC and SF before moving to Portland. I am a native born Oregonian. And I am a fine artist. Live/Work zoning in NYC forced most artists out of their SOHO, Chelsea, and East Village spaces and will soon do the same in Brooklyn and Harlem. In San Francisco Live/Work zoning litteraly changed the face of the SOMA and 3rd street corridor and I have yet to know an artist who lives in a Live/Work unless they were wealthy and an artist second. It seems to me as though the Live/Work is used as a loophole by developers and the wealthy to return to the urban corridor with the results being gentrefication and a removal of the diverse community and the artists who were living there in the first place. If any city could pull off a Live/Work zoning that benifited artists, the community, as well as commerece. I have faith that it could be Portland. However I do become nervous when I hear the phrase Live/Work thrown around without a clear vision or clarification.
re: What works in Work/Live?
Live/Work is a slippery slope. I previously lived in NYC and SF before moving to Portland. I am a native born Oregonian. And I am a fine artist. Live/Work zoning in NYC forced most artists out of their SOHO, Chelsea, and East Village spaces and will soon do the same in Brooklyn and Harlem. In San Francisco Live/Work zoning litteraly changed the face of the SOMA and 3rd street corridor and I have yet to know an artist who lives in a Live/Work unless they were wealthy and an artist second. It seems to me as though the Live/Work is used as a loophole by developers and the wealthy to return to the urban corridor with the results being gentrefication and a removal of the diverse community and the artists who were living there in the first place. If any city could pull off a Live/Work zoning that benifited artists, the community, as well as commerece. I have faith that it could be Portland. However I do become nervous when I hear the phrase Live/Work thrown around without a clear vision or clarification.