Update...Did the anonymous complaint come from Lake Oswego?

Here is a review of our on going coverage of the exclusive story we call
Clown House in Crisis City of Portland storm 05
The Clown House started 8 years ago, at the end of a circus tour. We had a child and decided to focus on having a place to raise our kiddo, get involved in a community, build bikes for people who need them, provide a place for weary travelers to land when on tour themselves and, of course,to have a good time.
We have had some really nasty scrapes with greedy contractors and developers over the years. Especially in the Mississippi neighborhood, the common tactic to rid the neighborhood of black folks and other undesirables is to use the city as a weapon. They call in complaints anonymously about yard infractions, the city then bugs the landlord with threats of fines until they decide to toss the tenants, and/or sell off.
This is once again happening on Alberta street. As new buildings come up,so does the rent all around, and the unscrupulous puddin head developers, riding around in gargantuan SUVs that are empty of cargo and clean from not being used for the actual heavy duty work they were designed for, protect their investments and set up new ones by crawling the streets looking for opportunity.
Our landlord (nice guy, likes kids)called about a vague letter from the city about our yard here being full of trash and debris and said it all had to go or he will face a $2000 fine and turn it over to us.
Define trash and debris. It's all relative to the person looking at it. It may have been in a dumpster when we found it, but when it's painted and in our yard, an old wooden spool becomes a fabulous circus prop that, in the hands of clowns, has entertained hundreds of people on Alberta street.
The irony is, when they go to sell the properties they have swooped on, they always say "Arts District," or if it's a property near the clown house they say "In the heart of the Alberta Arts."
Most neighborhoods that experience big economic booms lose the soul that made them appealing in the first place. NW 21st & 23rd are a classic example. Also, "cleaning up" doesn't mean that the urban blight goes away. NW still holds the dubious honor of having the highest rate of drug overdoses.
Strong communities require economic & ethnic diversity to survive. As a Clown-American, I sincerely hope that this kind of economic harassment doesn't remove the soul, or my family, from NE ALberta.
We had to get rid of all the bikes, they were in a row behind the house and were used to build funny bikes, provide transpo for folks who couldn't afford a bike, teaching welding, and for inventing things (I wonder if Orville and Wilbur had this problem?). The dead bike row also was the only means the bike shop had for helping to pay its rent. We sold parts and gear to other bike people for cheap, and used the money to help pay for power and or rent.
If the bike shop paid our living expenses, then we would have time to manage the thing in an orderly way, but we are relying on mostly anarchists and clowns for our management team. We didn't decide to have a public bike shop in a board room; it evolved, rather autonomously, because anarchists, clowns, & other folks WANTED it to happen. And people still want it. But who will keep it looking neat and pretty for the developers?
It seems that no matter what we do, the high property values make some folks ruthless.
I'm gonna keep cleaning and getting rid of props and materials and hopefully we can find a use for an empty yard.
This has been on going coverage of the exclusive story
Clown House in Crisis City of Portland storm 05
and now back to our regularly scheduled clownarchy
Every stick of our furnature came from dumpsters I relate to this.

I dont know how I feel about this

Extremo the clown

Extremos car and the only automobile that I have ever respected ever.