[CPEO-BIF] Portland, Oregon industrial land use debate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Debate arises over Portland industrial land use

by Nick Bjork
Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce
August 30, 2010
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New environmental overlay zoning along the Columbia Slough has the 
Columbia Corridor Association concerned that the city of Portland is 
making industrial land in the city unusable. While Metro is looking at 
possibly adding more land into the urban growth boundaries, the CCA 
wants Metro to focus inward toward these underutilized lots already in 
the UGB. (Photo by Dan Carter/DJC)

Creating industrial jobs in the Portland-metro area starts with making 
land available where business can locate. On that, local commercial 
real-estate groups can agree.

But where two of Portland’s most notable commercial real-estate 
organizations can’t agree is how that land should become available.

The Metro Council for regional government Metro will make a decision by 
the end on the year whether to expand the urban growth boundaries in 
Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. And while Metro staff has 
noted a glaring deficit of large-lot industrial land - lots more than 50 
acres - in the current UGB, not everyone is convinced that adding more 
land to the UGB is the key to creating jobs.

...

Also, the group believes that the city’s many brownfield sites - 
contaminated lots that would be usable if cleaned up - could be used for 
industrial land if a more consistent remediation method could be created.

...

For the entire article, see
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/08/30/debate-arises-over-portland-industrial-land-use/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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