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Land Use & Transportation Committee (LUTC)
3rd Monday of the Month
7-8:30 pm on ZOOM
Virtual Meeting Agenda
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.If you have questions about zoom, feel free to reach out in advance of the meeting to: leahf@seuplift.org
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Welcome, Introductions, and Project Announcements, Leah Fisher, SE Uplift
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Historic Resources Code Project, Brandon Spencer-Hartle, BPS
Background: Historic resources provide tangible and meaningful connections to Portland’s past. The Historic Resources Code Project (HRCP) will update and improve the processes, regulations, and incentives that apply to the city’s most significant historic places. The LUTC has heard about this project in the past, however, with the new recommendations coming out, it's a good time to check in and see where the policy proposal is headed. Learn more about the project here.
Purpose: Tonight we will get and update on the Recommended Draft for this project understand project, next steps, and opportunities to weigh in.
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Residential Infill Project (part 2), JP McNeil, City Planning, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS)
Background: City Council adopted RIP, including the deeper affordability bonus and the historic resource demolition disincentive amendments, on Aug. 12, 2020. Most changes — including rezones, new overlay zones, increased options for housing, and limits on building scale — went into effect on Aug. 1, 2021.
The Residential Infill Project – Part 2 (RIP2) follows up on the work of the first Residential Infill Project (RIP1), which was adopted in August 2020. This project will extend the housing options of RIP1 to all single dwelling zones by adding middle housing types in the low density R10 and R20 zones and will bring us into compliance with the State of Oregon’s middle housing rules by adding provisions for cottage clusters and townhouses in all the single dwelling zones. It will also bring the City into compliance with the State’s new middle housing land division rules by creating a new, streamlined procedure for dividing the housing units onto their own lot.
The major changes include:
- Adding duplexes as outright allowed on all lots where homes are allowed – new to R10 and R20
- Adding triplexes, fourplexes on lots outside the ‘z’ overlay and on maintained streets – R10 and R20
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Adding 2nd ADU’s and ADU with a duplex on lots outside the ‘z’ overlay and on maintained streets – R10 and R20
- Adding new density and lot size standards for attached houses outside the ‘z’ overlay – R2.5 through R20
- Adding a new “cottage cluster” housing type on lots outside the ‘z’ overlay and on maintained streets – R2.5 through R10
- Changing the constrained sites ‘z’ overlay zone to include R10 and R20, modify natural resource data, and add wildfire risk
- Creating a new expedited land division review chapter and procedure chapter
Purpose: Understand the newest major changes to RIP, have an opportunity to ask questions, and share opportunities to provide feedback.
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Trees for Life Oregon, Kyna Rubin and Catherine Mushel
Background: Large-form trees—those that grow more than 50 feet tall at maturity and live more than 75 years—give us the most bang for the buck when it comes to health and environmental benefits. Think Douglas-firs or oaks or lindens. Science shows that big trees cool our homes and sidewalks, clean our air, manage our stormwater, reduce noise and crime, and enhance our mental and physical well-being in specific ways such as by lowering our stress levels. Small ornamental trees are pretty, but their limited leaf volume and relatively short lifespans do not offer the same level of benefits that large trees do. At a time when the city has declared a climate emergency, large-species trees matter more than ever.
Portland is losing its big trees to development and tree advocates hope that revising the City’s tree code, Title 11, which City Council is scheduled to do in 2024-2025, will address some of the loopholes that allow tree removal in development situations. But larger issues such as building and street design and how different City bureaus interact around decisions affecting trees also have a large impact on our private and public right-of-way trees.
Purpose: Trees for Life Oregon is a group of neighborhood tree team leaders and tree stewards whose mission is to preserve large-species trees and space for new ones to be planted will introduce themselves, share information about big trees and more about what they do.
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Meeting Concludes: If we have time, we can take project updates and other announcements from the floor.
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Did you miss SE Uplift's monthly Newsletter?
SE Uplift's latest E-news contains a number of updates, resources, virtual events and more.
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Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) Project Updates
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Get in Touch Today!
Leah Fisher
(503) 232 0010
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