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Metro Unveils High-Density Growth Plan
Metro’s vision of how the Portland area will accommodate a million more people during the next 20 years emerged Tuesday: Pack them in.
How? Through redevelopment of old buildings and once-polluted industrial sites. By infill and increased density within existing city centers. By building up, not out. With a tight hold on the urban growth boundary and less reliance on cars. With smarter spending on the pipes, streets, wires and other public facilities that make life go.
That’s the viewpoint of the Metro’s chief operating officer, according to this article in the Oregonian.
Portland is famous nationally for it’s stand on limiting sprawl through the use of an Urban Growth Boundary. Metro reports that although 20,000 acres have been added to the UGB in recent years, that 95% of housing has been built inside the original UGB defined in 1979.
If the region makes wise land-use, infrastructure and transportation choices, the current UGB holds enough land to handle nearly all of the population and job growth projected by 2030, according to Metro’s projections, he concluded.
Not everyone agrees. What do you think?
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futility:
There will not be 1 million new people in the metro within 20 years. The numbers from the past don’t justify the claim. Who comes up with these predictions?
I’d like to know where the jobs to support the 1M estimate are going to come from.
What is ignored here is with this rate of growth, per capita emissions will need to be reduced to unrealistic levels. Population growth must be addressed at the local, national and international level. If a groundbreaking city like Portland can’t or won’t address the fact that continued growth is unsustainable, the nation never will.