{"id":2298,"date":"2011-03-20T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/urban-growth-boundary-portland.html"},"modified":"2011-03-20T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:23:00","slug":"urban-growth-boundary-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/urban-growth-boundary-portland.html","title":{"rendered":"Urban growth boundary &#8211;Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"Prof. Dorfman of UGA already explained to us that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/sprawl-to-ruin-or-dense-with-green-space-for-quality-of-life.html\">\nin Georgia<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nLocal governments must ensure balanced growth, as sprawling residential\ngrowth is a certain ticket to fiscal ruin*\n<br>\n* Or at least big tax increases.\n<\/blockquote>\nHere&#8217;s a place that does something about it:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=avNmiHnSXns\">\nPortland, Oregon.<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/avNmiHnSXns\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>Thanks to Matthew Richard for pointing out this documentary.<\/small>\n<p>\nAs the documentary says, the key to Portland&#8217;s way is:\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;&#8230;an urban growth boundary.\nA 260 mile line drawn around the city.\nOutside of this line, residential and industrial development\nis severely restricted.&#8221;\n<p>\n&#8220;Inside the boundary we have a city;\nthat&#8217;s where we want development, we want growth, we want investment.\nOutside of it we have land needed for other things, for ranching,\nfor forestry, for natural resources.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonline.com\/bps\/index.cfm?c=34020\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonline.com\/shared\/cfm\/image.cfm?id=231948\"><\/a>\n<p>\nThere are other things than development and growth.\nAnd you can see how serious Portland is about this boundary\nby looking at a satellite map; you can see the boundary from space:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=45.515971,-122.577209&amp;spn=0.336798,0.583649&amp;z=10&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=45.515971,-122.577209&amp;spn=0.336798,0.583649&amp;z=10&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small>\n<p>\nThe documentary also says people there are:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;&#8230;Passionate about the place&#8230;&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nYou know, that used to be the defining feature of the South:\na sense of place.\nPiney woods, farms, friendly people, community:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/lsupress\/bookPages\/9780807130537.html\">\nthese used to be important:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nFor generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with\na concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a\nstrong attachment to geography, or a &#8220;sense of place.&#8221; In the 1930s, the\nAgrarians accorded special meaning to rural life, particularly the farm,\nin their definitions of southern identity. For them, the South seemed an\norganic and rooted region in contrast to the North, where real estate\ndevelopment and urban sprawl evoked a faceless, raw capitalism. By the\nend of the twentieth century, however, economic and social forces had\nconverged to create a modernized South.\n<\/blockquote>\nIs &#8220;maximizing our value&#8221; more important than &#8220;an organic and rooted region&#8221;?\n<p>\nHow about maximizing the value of the community for the benefit of all of us?\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof. Dorfman of UGA already explained to us that in Georgia Local governments must ensure balanced growth, as sprawling residential growth is a certain ticket to fiscal ruin* * Or at least big tax increases. Here&#8217;s a place that does something about it: Portland, Oregon. Thanks to Matthew Richard for pointing out this documentary. 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