{"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":"<p>Prof. Dorfman of UGA already explained to us that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/sprawl-to-ruin-or-dense-with-green-space-for-quality-of-life.html\"><br \/>\nin Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLocal governments must ensure balanced growth, as sprawling residential<br \/>\ngrowth is a certain ticket to fiscal ruin*<br \/>\n<br \/>\n* Or at least big tax increases.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a place that does something about it:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=avNmiHnSXns\"><br \/>\nPortland, Oregon.<\/a><\/p>\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><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small>Thanks to Matthew Richard for pointing out this documentary.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nAs the documentary says, the key to Portland&#8217;s way is:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;&#8230;an urban growth boundary.<br \/>\nA 260 mile line drawn around the city.<br \/>\nOutside of this line, residential and industrial development<br \/>\nis severely restricted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Inside the boundary we have a city;<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s where we want development, we want growth, we want investment.<br \/>\nOutside of it we have land needed for other things, for ranching,<br \/>\nfor forestry, for natural resources.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonline.com\/bps\/index.cfm?c=34020\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandonline.com\/shared\/cfm\/image.cfm?id=231948\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThere are other things than development and growth.<br \/>\nAnd you can see how serious Portland is about this boundary<br \/>\nby looking at a satellite map; you can see the boundary from space:<\/p>\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><\/p>\n<p>\nThe documentary also says people there are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;&#8230;Passionate about the place&#8230;&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, that used to be the defining feature of the South:<br \/>\na sense of place.<br \/>\nPiney woods, farms, friendly people, community:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/lsupress\/bookPages\/9780807130537.html\"><br \/>\nthese used to be important:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor generations, southern novelists and critics have grappled with<br \/>\na concept that is widely seen as a trademark of their literature: a<br \/>\nstrong attachment to geography, or a &#8220;sense of place.&#8221; In the 1930s, the<br \/>\nAgrarians accorded special meaning to rural life, particularly the farm,<br \/>\nin their definitions of southern identity. For them, the South seemed an<br \/>\norganic and rooted region in contrast to the North, where real estate<br \/>\ndevelopment and urban sprawl evoked a faceless, raw capitalism. By the<br \/>\nend of the twentieth century, however, economic and social forces had<br \/>\nconverged to create a modernized South.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is &#8220;maximizing our value&#8221; more important than &#8220;an organic and rooted region&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>\nHow about maximizing the value of the community for the benefit of all of us?<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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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