It's hard to reconcile how the City of Portland could consider reducing the environmental protections on west Hayden Island to develop a marine terminal, touching the Columbia River and Oregon Slough, with its regulation of this business two miles to the southeast, on Columbia Slough. The business, Hanset Stainless, has a compressor installed within 50 feet of the slough, and says that according to the city's proposed environmental regulations, it can't replace the compressor in the same place because it would be too close to the slough. I noted with interest in the article that the City proposed to implement the regulations only as far west as NE 13th Avenue. These regulations, if applied to west Hayden Island's waterfront, would effectively kill the Port's proposal. But then maybe environmental damage is treated differently if it's created by the government.
ADDITION: I wrote this yesterday for posting today. In the meantime Professor Bogdanski has noticed the same absurdity in the City's commitment to protecting the marine environment, here.