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P O RTLAND M ETRO POLITAN R EGION O VERVIEW Tom Kloster, AICP Transportation Planning Manager Metro | Portland, Oregon P ORTLAND S E CONOMY W HAT IS M ETRO ? Elected Regional Government Manages growth, transportation, regional parks,

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POLITAN R

OVERVIEW

RTLAND

METRO

EGION

Tom Kloster, AICP Transportation Planning Manager Metro | Portland, Oregon

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PORTLAND’S ECONOMY

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WHAT IS

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  • Elected Regional Government
  • Manages growth, transportation,

regional parks, solid waste, regional facilities

  • Serves as MPO for Portland region
  • Allocates federal transportation

funds to 25 cities and counties

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METRO COUNCIL DISTRICTS

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METRO'S ORGANIZATION

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PORTLAND BEFORE WWII

Portland achieved much of its vision, with a multi‐modal system of transportation serving a thriving city

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POST­WAR HIGHWAYS

  • The National Defense Highway System is

launched after World War I, and transforms the

  • rtland landscape

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  • Farm towns across the

region suddenly be­come bedroom communities when new high­ways link them t Portland

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PORTLAND’S BACKLASH

A Portland backlash forms against a plan for massive freeway building that is beginning to destroy urban neighborhoods

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1972 DOWNTOWN PLAN

Mayor Neil Goldschmidt leads

reform movement, and development of Portland’s innov n: ative downtown pla

  • mphasis on transit‐

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  • riented development
  • 24‐hour downtown with

more housing and street retail

Mayor Neil Goldschmidt

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SENATE BILL 100

  • Legislature adopts pioneering 1973 statewide

lanning program to limit sprawl and protect forest nd farms p a

  • Legislation requires local plans to meet statewide

goals; creates LCDC

  • Urbanization now focused inside urban growth

boundaries

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ONE MORE

ATTLE . . .

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1989 bypass freeway proposed in rapidly growing Washington County

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THE LUTRAQ STUDY

  • The Western Bypass proposal frames a new

debate on egional growth anagement r m

  • 1000 Friends of

Oregon proposes LUTRAQ lternative to tatus quo a s

  • Linking land use

and transportation planning becomes new mandate for regional plans

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2040 CONCEPTS

2040 Growth Concept Adopted in 1995

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2040 GROWTH CONCEPT

  • 50­year vision for

anaging region’s rowth m g

  • Incorporates best

parts of “Concepts for Growth options

  • Builds on lessons

learned from Portland’s downtown plan

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VMT: OUR BOTTOM LINE

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UGB VS. TRAVELSHED

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METRO

www.oregonmetro.gov Tom Kloster, AICP Transportation Planning Manager tom.kloster@oregonmetro.gov