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Portland has a long and successful tradition of
shaping its future through thoughtful planning and
deliberative action. Today, Portland is regarded
by its residents and visitors as a highly livable
and vital city, a place which has built upon its
distinct character and personality to attract and
manage new energy and growth.
Our core plans no longer give adequate guidance
to implementers about how and where to make the
next round of significant new investments in infrastructure
and programs. There are significant new challenges—and
opportunities—facing Portland in the coming decades
that our most important plans did not contemplate,
such as growth in population and employment, global
climate change, the changing make up of Portland’s
people, present and growing social and economic
inequalities and decreasing public sector resources
and faith in government.
Grounded in the values and findings of visonPDX,
the Portland Plan will serve to guide the growth
and development of Portland over the next 30 years.
It will serve as Portland’s updated Comprehensive
Plan and include updates to the city’s Central City
Plan, City-wide Economic Development Strategy, and
Sustainability/Global Warming policies. It will
make use of the broad outreach and engagement generation
in the visionPDX process and will continue to involve
the public around policy choices and strategies.
The Portland tradition has been to wrestle with
the most important issues of the day and create
a future by intentional thought and action, drawing
on many stakeholders in to plan collectively and
forming needed partnerships to take these plans
into action. The Portland Plan will do just that
for our generation, drawing together the community,
business and agency partners, elected leaders and
bureaus in short and long term actions. Together,
we will address the most pressing issues facing
our community today, articulate the fundamental
aspirations of our residents about the future and
set out actions to be taken to realize our dreams
and meet our challenges.
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