Tigard, Oregon sucks because it is a poorly-planned, poorly-designed, out of control, highway interchange in burban Oregon. If you live in Tigard and think you are living in a tree-lined, shady, quiet, brat-friendly burban of greenie-loving, tree-hugging Portland, Oregon you are....GULLIBLE.
1. Portland, Oregon is bike-loving, wine-sipping, foodie-haven, etc. etc. only in small sections.
2. Burbans like Tigard, Oregon are not included in those small sections. Tigard, Oregon has a biker bar and ugly strip malls.
3. Tigard, Oregon went straight from rural, mud-soaked, backwater, podunk, no-account town to a tacky, mud-soaked, backwater, podunk, no-account burban.
Wow, what a trajectory.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Tigard Oregon Still Sucks
Noise pollution's deleterious effects, from Wikipedia:
Noise health effects are both health and behavioral in nature. The disliked sound is called sound noise. This unwanted sound can damage physiological and psychological health. Noise pollution can cause annoyance and aggression, hypertension, high stress levels, tinnitus, hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and other harmful effects.[4][5][6] Furthermore, stress and hypertension are the leading causes to health problems, whereas tinnitus can lead to forgetfulness, severe depression and at times panic attacks.[5][7]
Chronic exposure to noise may cause noise-induced hearing loss. Older males exposed to significant occupational noise demonstrate significantly reduced hearing sensitivity than their non-exposed peers, though differences in hearing sensitivity decrease with time and the two groups are indistinguishable by age 79.[8] A comparison of Maaban tribesmen, who were insignificantly exposed to transportation or industrial noise, to a typical U.S. population showed that chronic exposure to moderately high levels of environmental noise contributes to hearing loss.[4]
High noise levels can contribute to cardiovascular effects and exposure to moderately high levels during a single eight hour period causes a statistical rise in blood pressure of five to ten points and an increase in stress[9] and vasoconstriction leading to the increased blood pressure noted above as well as to increased incidence of coronary artery disease.
Noise pollution is also a cause of annoyance. A 2005 study by Spanish researchers found that in urban areas households are willing to pay approximately four Euros per decibel per year for noise reduction.[10]
Tigard, Oregon is the definition of suburban NOISE POLLUTION. The noise pollution in Tigard, Oregon is terrible. Tigard, Oregon did not bother to plan city streets, traffic patterns and housing location and density in order to mitigate noise pollution from the desired growth.
All Tigard, Oregon cares about are a few neighborhoods on Bull Mountain. Aside from those, Tigard, Oregon will leave those living (and paying property taxes) in other areas to fend for themselves.
Try building a wall when the traffic in your area (in the area of your bedroom, your kitchen, your living room, your yard, etc.) doubles, triples, quadruples to a 24/7 constant, high decibel, incessant high-level noise. Tigard has no management whatsoever. It is out of control.
Friday, August 22, 2008
What is going on in Tigard, Oregon: City Sued
Has anything been done to fix the problem and, you know, express sorry at the taking of a young life? Anyone? Anyone?
The standard Tigard, Oregon reply: it isn't OUR fault. Wow, what a Christian sentiment.
by Dana Tims, The Oregonian
Lukus Glenn
The standard Tigard, Oregon reply: it isn't OUR fault. Wow, what a Christian sentiment.
Tigard teen's family sues for millions in fatal police shooting
by Dana Tims, The Oregonian Wednesday August 13, 2008, 10:55 PM
Lukus GlennThe family of an 18-year-old Tigard man shot to death by police during a family dispute in 2006 filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday against the county, city and officers involved.
» Read earlier coverage from The Oregonian
» Lawsuit asks for millions (PDF)
Hope and Brad Glenn, the parents of Lukus Glenn, filed the suit against Washington County, the two deputies who shot their son, the city of Tigard and a Tigard police officer.
"We were forced to go ahead and file this to shed light on the events of that night,'' Hope Glenn said. "It's all been very hard and it just gets worse, not better."
There are two claims for relief in the lawsuit. Each seeks more than $7 million.
Police and prosecutors were not immediately available to comment on the lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed by Lake Oswego attorney Lawrence K. Peterson, says official accounts of the Sept. 16, 2006, shooting contained "glaring inconsistencies and self-contradictions that were never resolved."
A Washington County district attorney's office investigation into the shooting called the incident "tragic" but "legally justified."
"The material facts surrounding the shooting are not in dispute," wrote Rob Bletko, the county's chief deputy district attorney, in a letter to Washington County Sheriff Rob Gordon. "There is no good reason to believe that the deputies committed a crime, and therefore a grand jury review in this case is not warranted."
Wiki Nonsense
This is what passes for truth on Wikipedia. This is NONSENSE and also BORING and Wikipedia should be ashamed of itself for doing the useless thing. This isn't TRUTH, this is NONSENSE. Where is the truth about actually living in Tigard, Oregon?
A place to call home? For what, dullards and liars? What about: Tigard, Oregon, a place to call home for those who hate life. How about: Tigard, Oregon, a place to call home for slugs, mud and assorted incompetents.
Wilson Tigard
A place to call home? For what, dullards and liars? What about: Tigard, Oregon, a place to call home for those who hate life. How about: Tigard, Oregon, a place to call home for slugs, mud and assorted incompetents.
Tigard, Oregon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Tigard, Oregon | |
| Motto: A Place to Call Home | |
 | |
| Coordinates: 45°25′40″N 122°46′44″W / 45.42778, -122.77889 | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Washington |
| Incorporated | 1961 |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Craig Dirksen |
| Area | |
| - Total | 10.9 sq mi (28.2 km²) |
| - Land | 10.9 sq mi (28.1 km²) |
| - Water | 0 sq mi (0.1 km²) |
| Elevation | 300 ft (91 m) |
| Population (2006) | |
| - Total | 46,300 |
| - Density | 3,795.3/sq mi (1,465.6/km²) |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| - Summer (DST) | Pacific (UTC-7) |
| ZIP codes | 97223, 97224, 97281 |
| Area code(s) | 503 |
| FIPS code | 41-73650[1] |
| GNIS feature ID | 1128092[2] |
| Website: http://www.tigard-or.gov | |
Tigard (pronounced /ˈtaɪgərd/) is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The population was 41,223 at the 2000 census. The 2006 estimate is 46,300 residents.[3] According to the 2003 Oregon Blue Book, Tigard is the state's 11th largest city.[4] Located south of Beaverton and north of Tualatin, it is part of the Portland metropolitan area.
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[edit] History
Like many towns in the Willamette Valley, Tigard was originally settled by several families, the most noteworthy of which was the Tigard family, headed by Wilson M. Tigard. Arriving in the area known as "East Butte" in 1852, the family settled and became involved in organizing and building the East Butte School, a general store (which starting in 1886 housed the area's post office) and a meeting hall, and renamed East Butte to "Tigardville". The Evangelical organization built the Emanuel Evangelical Church at the foot of Bull Mountain, south of the Tigard store in 1886. A blacksmith shop was opened in the 1890s by John Gaarde across from the Tigard Store, and in 1896 a new E. Butte school was opened to handle the growth the community was experiencing from an incoming wave of German settlers.
The period between 1907 and 1910 marked a rapid acceleration in growth as Main Street blossomed with the construction of several new commercial buildings, Germania Hall (a two-story building featuring a restaurant, grocery store, dance hall, and rooms to rent), a shop/post office, and a livery stable. Limited telephone service began in 1908.
In 1910, the arrival of the Oregon Electric Railway triggered the development of Main Street and pushed Tigardville from being merely a small farming community into a period of growth which would lead to its incorporation as a city in 1961. The town was renamed Tigard by the railroad to greater distinguish it from the nearby Wilsonville, and the focus of the town reoriented northeast towards the new rail stop as growth accelerated.
1911 marked the introduction of electricity, as the Tualatin Valley Electric company joined Tigard to a service grid with Sherwood and Tualatin. William Ariss built a blacksmith shop on Main Street in 1912 that eventually evolved into a modern service station. In the 1930s the streets and walks of Main Street were finally paved, and another school established to accommodate growth.
The city was the respondent in (and eventual loser of) the landmark property rights case, Dolan v. City of Tigard, decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1994. The case established the "rough proportionality" test that is now applied throughout the United States when a local government evaluates a land use application and determines the exactions to require of the recipient of a land use approval.[5]
In the 2004 general elections, the city of Tigard won approval from its voters to annex the unincorporated suburbs on Bull Mountain, a hill to the west of Tigard. However, residents in that area have rejected annexation and are currently fighting in court various moves by the city.
[edit] Government
[edit] Past mayors
These people have served as mayor of the city.[citation needed]
- 1971-1978: Wilbur Bishop
- 1984: Ken Scheckla [P]
- 1984-1986: John Cook
- 1987-1988: Tom Brian
- 1989-1994: Gerald Edwards
- 1994: Jack Schwab
- 1994-2000: Jim Nicoli [D]
- 2001-2003: Jim Griffith [A][D]
- From 2003: Craig Dirksen [A]
[A] Appointed to fill out term
[D] Died in office
[P] Mayor Protem
[edit] Geography
Tigard is located at 45°25′40″N, 122°46′44″W (45.42764, -122.77897)[6].
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.9 square miles (28.2 km²), of which, 10.9 square miles (28.1 km²) of it is land and 0.09% is water.
[edit] Demographics
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 41,223 people, 16,507 households, and 10,746 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,795.3 people per square mile (1,465.6/km²). There were 17,369 housing units at an average density of 1,599.1/sq mi (617.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 85.38% White, 5.57% Asian, 1.14% African American, 0.61% Native American, 0.53% Pacific Islander, 3.76% from other races, and 3.00% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.94% of the population.
There were 16,507 households out of which 33.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.0% were married couples living together, 9.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% were non-families. 26.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 3.03.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.5% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 34.1% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 96.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.8 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $51,581, and the median income for a family was $61,656. Males had a median income of $44,597 versus $31,351 for females. The per capita income for the city was $25,110. About 5.0% of families and 6.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.8% of those under age 18 and 3.6% of those age 65 or over.
North of McDonald street, Tigard, along with Metzger and the unincorporated Bull Mountain area, uses the 97223 ZIP code for incoming mail, while the southern half of the city uses 97224, as does the nearby city of King City and the community of Durham. All mail for both ZIP codes are processed in Portland. The Tigard Post Office on Main street has a ZIP code of 97281, which is used only for post office boxes. Local phone numbers may be within the 503 or 971 area codes.
[edit] Local attractions
The John Tigard House, constructed by the son of Wilson M. Tigard in 1880 at the corner of SW Pacific Hwy and SW Gaarde St, remains, having been saved from demolition in the 1970s by the Tigard Area Historical and Preservation Association. It became registered as a National Historic Place in 1979, and now resides at the corner of SW Canterbury Lane and SW 103rd.
During the Portland Rose Festival every summer, the Tigard Festival of Balloons is held at Cook Park near Tigard High School. The tallest building in the county is a 12-story building at Lincoln Center.[7]
[edit] Education
The city of Tigard falls mostly under the jurisdiction of the Tigard-Tualatin School District, however some of the northwestern most part of the city falls under the jurisdiction of the Beaverton School District. The Tigard-Tualatin School District contains 10 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, and 2 high schools. Tigard is home to Tigard High School, Fowler Middle School, Twality Middle School, Alberta Rider Elementary, CF Tigard Elementary, Durham Elementary, Mary Woodward Elementary and Templeton Elementary.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey (2007-10-25). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ PSU:Population Research Center
- ^ Oregon Blue Book
- ^ Dolan v. Tigard
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990". United States Census Bureau (2005-05-03). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
- ^ Allen, Martha. Tigard celebrates year of great growth, development. The Oregonian, December 29, 1987, West Zoner, p. C8.
[edit] External links
Tigard, Oregon is at coordinates 45°25′40″N 122°46′44″W / 45.42764, -122.778974Thursday, August 21, 2008
Tigard, Oregon continues to suck
Hello, knock, knock, knock is anyone home?
Obviously, no one in Tigard is home. The lights are out and no one is there.
It is muggy, it is alternately overcast and hot and generally miserable. Surprise! This is the best weather Tigard will produce this year. It is all downhill and misery from here on out.
Aren't you glad you do not live in Tigard?
Obviously, no one in Tigard is home. The lights are out and no one is there.
It is muggy, it is alternately overcast and hot and generally miserable. Surprise! This is the best weather Tigard will produce this year. It is all downhill and misery from here on out.
Aren't you glad you do not live in Tigard?
Living in Tigard will take years off of your life
That isn't a statistical certainty but what is these days?
The stress of living in a traffic circle instead of a residential area will take years off of one's life of that I am quite sure even though it is hardly worth (nothing in Tigard is worth much) taking the time to tease out the numbers. Let us review the life-shortening problems in Tigard, Oregon:
1. Stress of ever increasing overpopulation and all the problems that come with it. These would include but not be limited to noise pollution, traffic congestion, declining civility, increasing vandalism and declining green space.
2. Stress of having to deal with the City of Tigard and its inability to do anything except build a skate park for a tiny fraction of citizens. Who uses a skate park? How about spending that money on a REAL CITY PLAN for a change. How about hiring some professionals instead of these amateurs.
3. Stress of being furious everyday about 1 and 2.
I am 100% sure that living in Tigard, Oregon will cut 5 years off of your life but I can't prove it and who cares anyway. Living those extra years in Tigard isn't a benefit but a punishment.
The stress of living in a traffic circle instead of a residential area will take years off of one's life of that I am quite sure even though it is hardly worth (nothing in Tigard is worth much) taking the time to tease out the numbers. Let us review the life-shortening problems in Tigard, Oregon:
1. Stress of ever increasing overpopulation and all the problems that come with it. These would include but not be limited to noise pollution, traffic congestion, declining civility, increasing vandalism and declining green space.
2. Stress of having to deal with the City of Tigard and its inability to do anything except build a skate park for a tiny fraction of citizens. Who uses a skate park? How about spending that money on a REAL CITY PLAN for a change. How about hiring some professionals instead of these amateurs.
3. Stress of being furious everyday about 1 and 2.
I am 100% sure that living in Tigard, Oregon will cut 5 years off of your life but I can't prove it and who cares anyway. Living those extra years in Tigard isn't a benefit but a punishment.
Skate and Annoy Tigard Skateboard Park for Whom?
http://skateandannoy.com/2007/09/02/tigard-progress/
What is the point of this very expensive amusement park for a very tiny segment of the population? Did they bother to put a roof on it because it rains pretty much every single month in Tigard.
Tigard, Oregon cannot be bothered to fix traffic congestion or do any kind of a decent job with MAIN STREET but it will waste money on frivolous amusements for a tiny segment of the population. This will serve a handful of Tigard residents and property tax payers but it does draw freeloaders from around the area.
This is typical Tigard, Oregon city lack-of-planning-and-rationality disaster.
What is the point of this very expensive amusement park for a very tiny segment of the population? Did they bother to put a roof on it because it rains pretty much every single month in Tigard.
Tigard, Oregon cannot be bothered to fix traffic congestion or do any kind of a decent job with MAIN STREET but it will waste money on frivolous amusements for a tiny segment of the population. This will serve a handful of Tigard residents and property tax payers but it does draw freeloaders from around the area.
This is typical Tigard, Oregon city lack-of-planning-and-rationality disaster.
Tigard, Oregon Really Sucks
Why does Tigard, Oregon really suck?
Tigard has devolved from a rural, hick outback into the biggest traffic interchange in the State of Oregon. Tigard, aside from the strip mall Washington Square, has minimal business interests and cheek-to-jowl housing disasters. It is now, unofficially but in reality, nothing more than a traffic interchange between Hwy 5, Hwy 217, 99W, Portland, Beaverton, Lake Oswego and Tualatin.
How did Tigard, Oregon come to this disasterous conclusion? Tigard, Oregon has zero competent city planning.
Tigard, Oregon city plans:
1. Build housing
2. Build ugly housing
3. Build crowded housing
4. Do not provide sufficient services including, you know, unnecessary things like roads to service said housing.
5. Build townhouses.
6. Decrease size of lots to postage stamps.
7. Increase population density to equal downtown LA (no kidding, oh the ambition of hick Oregonians!)
8. Refuse to do anything to improve the quality of life.
9. Ignore all of the above and...build more housing with no attendant roads, services, trees, etc.
Tigard is a NIGHTMARE of a town. It is a small, rather uninteresting suburb of Portland but it dares to advertise its sorry self as a family-friendly, tree-friendly town.
B-A-L-O-N-E-Y
Tigard mows down trees and vegetation to build, you guessed it, the ugliest housing around. Unlike its neighbor Lake Oswego, Tigard has zero aesthetic sense. Just check out the difference between:
Tigard' main fare the world's ugliest road 99W:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=99w+tigard+oregon&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=45.428546,-122.777742&spn=0.004525,0.011373&z=17&layer=c&cbll=45.427276,-122.777799&panoid=nkdLloZzeci7ao_PAnzuPA&cbp=1,202.20932619374315,,0,4.496574291633835
Tigard's main street which sits underneath 99W:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=main+street+tigard+oregon&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=45.434178,-122.770951&spn=0.00905,0.022745&z=16&layer=c&cbll=45.430742,-122.770962&panoid=hueCnh9OzJg3eVh7ltXD6w&cbp=1,0,,0,5
Lake Oswego's Kruse way:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kruse%20way%20lake%20oswego&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl
Lake Oswego's main street:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=main+street+lake+oswego&sll=45.425745,-122.732005&sspn=0.018102,0.04549&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=45.434223,-122.770951&spn=0.00905,0.022745&z=16&iwloc=addr&cbll=45.430742,-122.770962&panoid=5G_NuqE3jskXgnqW9aD-wA
Tigard is right next to Lake Oswego but it may as well live on the far side of the moon. The two look as if Lake Oswego dumps its garbage (it does dump its traffic) into Tigard and Tigard just eats it up and says thank you. Bend over Tigard, that is the role you choose to have in this world.
Tigard is a disaster.
Tigard has devolved from a rural, hick outback into the biggest traffic interchange in the State of Oregon. Tigard, aside from the strip mall Washington Square, has minimal business interests and cheek-to-jowl housing disasters. It is now, unofficially but in reality, nothing more than a traffic interchange between Hwy 5, Hwy 217, 99W, Portland, Beaverton, Lake Oswego and Tualatin.
How did Tigard, Oregon come to this disasterous conclusion? Tigard, Oregon has zero competent city planning.
Tigard, Oregon city plans:
1. Build housing
2. Build ugly housing
3. Build crowded housing
4. Do not provide sufficient services including, you know, unnecessary things like roads to service said housing.
5. Build townhouses.
6. Decrease size of lots to postage stamps.
7. Increase population density to equal downtown LA (no kidding, oh the ambition of hick Oregonians!)
8. Refuse to do anything to improve the quality of life.
9. Ignore all of the above and...build more housing with no attendant roads, services, trees, etc.
Tigard is a NIGHTMARE of a town. It is a small, rather uninteresting suburb of Portland but it dares to advertise its sorry self as a family-friendly, tree-friendly town.
B-A-L-O-N-E-Y
Tigard mows down trees and vegetation to build, you guessed it, the ugliest housing around. Unlike its neighbor Lake Oswego, Tigard has zero aesthetic sense. Just check out the difference between:
Tigard' main fare the world's ugliest road 99W:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=99w+tigard+oregon&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=45.428546,-122.777742&spn=0.004525,0.011373&z=17&layer=c&cbll=45.427276,-122.777799&panoid=nkdLloZzeci7ao_PAnzuPA&cbp=1,202.20932619374315,,0,4.496574291633835
Tigard's main street which sits underneath 99W:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=main+street+tigard+oregon&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=45.434178,-122.770951&spn=0.00905,0.022745&z=16&layer=c&cbll=45.430742,-122.770962&panoid=hueCnh9OzJg3eVh7ltXD6w&cbp=1,0,,0,5
Lake Oswego's Kruse way:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kruse%20way%20lake%20oswego&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl
Lake Oswego's main street:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=main+street+lake+oswego&sll=45.425745,-122.732005&sspn=0.018102,0.04549&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=45.434223,-122.770951&spn=0.00905,0.022745&z=16&iwloc=addr&cbll=45.430742,-122.770962&panoid=5G_NuqE3jskXgnqW9aD-wA
Tigard is right next to Lake Oswego but it may as well live on the far side of the moon. The two look as if Lake Oswego dumps its garbage (it does dump its traffic) into Tigard and Tigard just eats it up and says thank you. Bend over Tigard, that is the role you choose to have in this world.
Tigard is a disaster.
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