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PO  POLITAN ROVERVIEW 

RTLANDMETRO EGION 

Tom Kloster, AICP

Transportation Planning Manager

Metro | Portland, Oregon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PORTLAND’S ECONOMY  

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WHAT IS  ETRO? M 

 • 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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POST­WARHIGHWAYS   

• The National Defense Highway System is launched after World  War I, and transforms the ortland landscape  IP 

• Farm towns across the region suddenly be­come bedroom communities when new high­ways link them t  Portland o

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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‐eoriented 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 pa 

• Legislation requires local plans to meet statewide goals; creates LCDC 

 

• Urbanization now focused inside urban growth boundaries 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ONE MORE  ATTLE . . . B  

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  

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• 1000 Friends of Oregon proposes LUTRAQ lternative to tatus quo as 

• 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 mg 

• 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 

[email protected]