Positive action on this petition will allow an historical corner to thrive, continuing and building its lasting contribution to a seriously gentrifying neighborhood.  The Sons of Haiti Masonic Lodge of Masons and Eastern Stars has been home to valued community activities. In recent years it is also home to the last soul food enterprise in the neighborhood – Ella's Kitchen – a mobile food unit on the Lodge's parking lot. Ella's sits next to King Burrito, one of Portland's oldest and best loved mobile food units. The City unfairly demands the destruction of their shared steel canopy as well as other long-used built amenities presently enjoyed. The City is imposing thousands of dollars in fines against the Lodge and has demanded that the existing hillside perimeter of natural grasses and edible berries (blueberries, Marion berries, salmon berries, and others) be destroyed and replaced by commercial hedging and ground cover. The lodge's parking lot was until now paved by environmentally appropriate soaker trenches, drain rock, and fine crush-rock finish. But the City's intervention now imposes installation of impervious asphalt and construction/excavation of a storm-water well, despite the absence of any present storm-water runoff concern. As no other similar parking area in Portland faces such demands, many consider the demands of the City against the Sons of Haiti to be wrongly, unfairly motivated. While the rhetoric of the City and neighbors support diversity, the actions of the City seem destined to eliminate the last remnant of Afro-American institutional presence on Mississippi Avenue. Please join us and say NO. For more story see front page, Portland Observer, May 27/