This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. Portlanders will soon find ballots for the November general election in their mailboxes. One important question they’ll see is ballot measure 26-228, which if voters approve … Read more
Takeaways Troutdale, a suburban city five miles east of Portland, requires each new home to come with at least 2 parking spaces. Car counts at similar projects nearby suggest residents will probably average about 1.1 cars per home. The affordable housing provider proposed 130 spaces: 1.4 per home. Last month, Troutdale’s planning commission rejected that. … Read more
For Immediate Release: October 3, 2022 Media Contacts: Jay Lee, Democracy Researcher jay@sightline.org, @jaylee_tx Michael Andersen, Senior Housing Researcher michael@sightline.org, @andersem The Downsides of Single-winner Districts Research shows that single-winner districts invite gerrymandering and worsen housing shortages Portland, OR – This afternoon, Councilor Mingus Mapps released an alternate proposal to Measure 26-228, which has been … Read more
This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. Author’s note: Based on our research into the proposal’s effects, Sightline Institute has endorsed ballot measure 26-228. Read on for some details about the measure and … Read more
Housing growth drops 20 percent, on average, in cities making the sort of switch proposed by Portland’s Commissioner Mapps.
For about $10,000, you can own it. It can turn parking lots to villages, then back again. It can go anywhere with you. But our laws almost always ban the simple home on wheels.
This article is part of the series Parking? Lots! On Thursday, Oregon approved the largest rollback to parking mandates in modern US history. The unanimous vote by the state’s land use commission came through an unusual channel: an administrative action, ordered by the governor, that breathed new ambition into the broadly written land use laws … Read more
Finally, homes for people will no longer be conditional on car parking.
This article is part of the series Parking? Lots! Update, July 21: Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission unanimously approved these rules on a permanent basis. The first round of parking reforms, removing mandates near transit, for smaller homes, and for regulated-affordable homes, are set to take effect Jan. 1, 2023, in the state’s eight … Read more
This article is part of the series Parking? Lots! Update, July 21: Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission unanimously approved these rules on a permanent basis. The first round of parking reforms, removing mandates near transit, for smaller homes, and for regulated-affordable homes, are set to take effect Jan. 1, 2023, in the state’s eight … Read more