City of Portland Studies a Corridor District Plan
23 August 2005
With the goal of bringing a variety of land use regulations under one umbrella, the City of Portland is studying the possibility of a Columbia Corridor District Plan. The City's River Renaissance Plan, adopted by the City Council in November 2004, anticipated a new approach to balancing industrial development and natural resource preservation in the Corridor. It called for a "scoping process", a series of interviews with stakeholders, to learn if a new approach is needed and, if so, what that approach might look like and what it would accomplish.
Given the uniqueness of the Columbia Corridor's status as an Industrial Sanctuary and urban watershed with natural resources worth protecting and enhancing, all recognize it is important to have existing regulations mesh in a way that is easy to follow and implement for new development.
There is no presumption that a Corridor District Plan will be created. Interviews are currently being conducted with Corridor stakeholders to determine the potential advantages and disadvantages. The current scoping phase will end with a consultant report to the City summarizing the pros and cons and providing suggestions for future options to address the identified issues in the corridor.
CCA members invited to be interviewed as part of various stakeholder groups include Stark Ackerman, Debbie Deetz-Silva, Corky Collier, Chuck Harrison, Bob Eaton, Dick Shafer, Don Ossey, Mike Wells and Tim Warren.