Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air

Quality Connection in Portland, Oregon, USA

Andy CotugnoMetro Policy Advisor

June 2010

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection

The Pacific Northwest


Metro Council Districts


Metro region


Urban Growth Boundary & Framework

Plan

Light-Rail

Public Private Partnerships

Natural Areas


Freeways focusing growth in suburbs

Downtown buildings razed to construct more parking lots

Urban renewal replaces vibrant neighborhoods with sterile high-rise apartments

Downtown in Decline


Highway Revolt Harbor Freeway

removed in 1976 to make way for Tom McCall Waterfront Park

Mount Hood Freeway withdrawn in favor of light rail transit along the Banfield

Shift freeway money to multi-modal projects


The Oregon Story"There is a shameless threat to our environment and to the whole quality of life: unfettered despoiling of the land. Sagebrush subdivisions, coastal 'condomania’...

Governor Tom McCall


The Oregon Story“...and the ravenous rampage of suburbia in the Willamette Valley all threaten to mock Oregon's status as the environmental model for the nation.”

Tom McCall’s address to the Legislature, January 8, 1973


Senate Bill 100 Legislature adopts pioneering 1973

statewide planning program to limit sprawl and protect forest and farms

Legislation requires local plans to meet statewide goals; creates LCDC

Urbanization now focusedinside urbangrowth boun-daries

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection Oregon Land Use Program

State Goals & Regulations

Goal 1 – Citizen InvolvementGoal 2 – Planning ProcessGoal 3 – Agricultural LandsGoal 4 – Forest LandsGoal 5 – Natural ResourcesGoal 6 – Air/Water QualityGoal 7 – Natural Disasters & HazardsGoal 8 – RecreationGoal 9 – Economic DevelopmentGoal 10 – HousingGoal 11 – Public FacilitiesGoal 12 – TransportationGoal 13 – Energy ConservationGoal 14 – Urban Growth BoundaryGoal 15 – Willamette River GreenwayGoal 16 – Estuarine ResourcesGoal 17 – Coastal ShorelandsGoal 18 – Beaches and DunesGoal 19 – Ocean Resources

Metro

Regional Framework Plan2040 Growth ConceptUrban Growth BoundaryRegional Transportation PlanRiparian Setback Regulations

Local Comprehensive Plan Compliance

Cities and Counties

Comprehensive Land use Plans

Building Permits


Concept B

Base Case Concept A

Concept C

2040 Concept

2040 Concepts

2040 Growth Concept adopted in 1995


2040 Growth Concept 50-year vision for

managing region’s growth

Incorporates best parts of “Concepts for Growth” options

Kicks off a major effort to enact the new regional vision through local plans


2040 Theme:Growth in Centers

Compact urban centers built to human scale

Mixed housing and commerce served with good transit

Focus of civic activities andpublic services

Parking ratios established


2040 Theme:Protect Industry

Preserve Industrial Lands

Maintain freight mobility on highways

Ensure quality freight access to ports and industrial areas from region’s highway and rail network


2040 Theme:Protect Rural Areas

Adopt 50-year Rural Reserves

Create Green Corridors along rural state highways

Mitigate urban overflow on rural routes

Maintain rural separation between Metro region and neighbor cities


2040 Theme:Nature in the City

Network of parks, trails and open spaces

Protections for streams and upland natural areas

Green Streets - designs that minimize runoff

Employ regulatory and acquisition approaches to preservation and enhancement


Two Tracks for Transportation

2035 RTP Investment Strategy

Track 1:Mobility Corridors

Track 2:Community

Building

Focused on place making

Centered on major travel corridors

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection Light Rail &

Transit


To date:

• 50 miles Light-Rail, 7.3 planned

• 4 miles Streetcar, 8 miles planned

• 14.7 miles Commuter Rail

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection Future High Capacity Transit

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection Natural Areas

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection Preservation of

Natural Areas

1995 measure• $136 million

2006 measure• $227 million

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection Preservation of

Natural Areas

• nearly 11,000 acres preserved

To date:

•more than 90 miles of rivers and streams protected

•more than one million trees planted


Within the UGB

22,000 acres of Metro’s Bond Acquisitions. Public Parks, and public Open Spaces have been protected


Within the UGB Title 13 (through regulation) protects 27,300 acres of Riparian Habitat outside of our Public parks and open spaces


22,000 acres of Bond Acquisitions, Public Parks, Public Open space

27,300 acres of regulated Riparian Habitat

49,300 acres = 19% of the 255,600 acre UGB

Making the Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality Connection Public Private Partnerships


VMT per capitaU.S. and Portland

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Portland Only Portland-Vancouver U.S. National Average


Andrew C. CotugnoMetro

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www.oregonmetro.gov

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