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Portland planners brief council committee on comprehensive plan, timelines for zoning and infrastructure work
Summary
City planners told the Climate Resilience and Land Use Committee that Portland's comprehensive plan guides zoning, capital projects and investments; officials discussed growth trends, implementation tools and near-term legislative items including an urban service boundary amendment and environmental zone updates.
Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability planners gave the City Council Climate Resilience and Land Use Committee a detailed overview of the city's comprehensive plan on Aug. 14, describing how the plan frames land use decisions, guides zoning and capital project findings, and will shape several legislative items coming to council over the next year.
The briefing — delivered by Patricia Diependorfer, chief planner at the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, and Ryan Singer, principal planner for long-range planning and urban design — laid out the plan's structure, legal framework, growth targets and examples of area plans that have paired zoning changes with investments such as transit and parks.
Planners told the committee the comprehensive plan is Portland’s “generational” land use document: it sets a vision, guiding principles, goals and policies and must align with Oregon statewide land use goals and the region’s functional plan administered by Metro. City staff said the comp plan is used as the baseline for required findings when the council adopts or amends zoning and for prioritizing infrastructure and funding…
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