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Committee votes to send design review reform resolution to full council with 120-day study
Summary
The Climate Resilience and Land Use Committee referred a resolution co-sponsored by Councilor Zimmerman directing the city administrator to analyze and recommend reforms to Portland's design review process, including a 120-day timeline for proposals and options for temporary exemptions where legally feasible.
The Climate Resilience and Land Use Committee voted Nov. 13 to refer a resolution to full council that directs the city administrator to prepare a report with recommendations to reform Portland's design review process.
Councilor Zimmerman, the resolution's co-sponsor, told the committee the measure is intended to catalog types of design review (discretionary and nondiscretionary), present a two-track process and associated fee structures, analyze five years of recent project timelines and economic impacts and present options to temporarily excuse some design review requirements where legally feasible. The resolution asks the administration to return…
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