In seven community workshops held in February and March, Portlanders reviewed the city’s goals and policies in Part 1 of the Working Draft of the updated Comprehensive Plan City staff and about 350 Portlanders engaged in in-depth conversations about the future of the city and especially the Plans impact on [...]

The Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission heard testimony last month that proposed new parking requirements for new multi-family development was unnecessary and contrary to city goals, and also that it didn’t go far enough to solve urgent problems. After hearing two and a half hours of such testimony, the Commission [...]

  by Tim Hall Portland Water Bureau Making way for a better Kelly Butte landscape   During first three months of the year, construction vehicles were at work clearing a large section of Kelly Butte. Crews were busy removing non-native and invasive plants, dead and diseased trees, and unfortunately, a [...]

Tower planned for Burnside Bridgehead   Representatives of Key Development, and LRS and Skylab architects last month treated the Kerns Neighborhood Association to their plans for Block 67, next to the Burnside Bridge. The team plans to build a four-story podium on the vacant site, bounded by NE Second and [...]

By Don MacGillivray and Lee Perlman The one-acre private park that graced the Buckman neighborhood for 40 years is about to disappear. The St. Francis Parish is in the process of selling St. Francis Park to Catholic Charities. That institution intends to redevelop the property, bounded by SE 11th and [...]

Historic Resources Code Improvement Project makes it easier, cheaper to make minor modifications to Portland’s historic resources PORTLAND, Ore. — This morning Portland’s City Council unanimously voted to adopt code amendments that will improve the City’s historic review process and create a quicker, easier-to-understand, and more predictable review process for minor home [...]