In Any Case, I Very Much Appreciate the Fact That the City Will Revisit the Residential Code
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187832 In any case, I very much appreciate the factthat the City will revisit the residential code. It is hugely important and as I have said we on the Eastmoreland Land Use Committee will do all that we can to be supportive and to be of assistance. Meg On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Stockton, Mmty <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Meg, The PowerPoint presentation has been posted to the meeting recap webpage, please go to the documents and presentations link: httos://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/529238 Also, according to my colleague that staffs the PSC, assuming the second part of the video uploads in a reasonable time, that part should be available later this afternoon (she'll add the link after the Part 1 link). Finally, there were four area discussed/shared in the presentation yesterday, but all ten were analyzed using the methodology we shared with you all a couple meetings ago. Deborah will follow up with maps of all the areas reviewed by staff. We will also have a final memo to the PSC that includes these ten areas. On a personal note, I am also still processing my thoughts about yesterday's work session. I knew the PSC discussion was going to be close. It was painful for me as I have worked with you all on the Eastmoreland request for a year now. I too would have liked a more analytical, thoughtful and sensitive discussion around their recommendation. With kind regards, Marty Marty Stockton I Southeast District Liaison Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability 1900 SW 4th Avenue J Suite 7100 I Portland, OR 97201 p: 503.823 2041 f: 503.823 5884 e: marty [email protected] w: www portlandoregon.goy/bps To help ensure equal access to City programs, services and activities, the City of Portland will provide translation, reasonably modify policies/procedures and provide auxiliary aids/services/alternative formats to persons with disabilities. For accommodations, translations, complaints, and additional information, contact me, call 503-823-2041. City TIY 503-823-6868. or use Oregon Relay Service: 711. From: Meg Merrick [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 5:00 PM To: Stein, Deborah; Stockton, Marty; Rod Merrick; Clark Nelson Subject: Slideshow from today's BPS Commission meeting Hi Deborah and Matty, Could you please send me a copy of the slides that you presented today to the BPS Commission regarding the RS to R 7 request? I am particularly interesting in seeing maps of 187832 From: Stein Deborah To: Meg Merrick; Stockton, Marty Subject: RE: Slideshow from today"s BPS Commission meeting Date: Friday, May 15, 2015 6:20:04 PM Hi Meg, I apologize that I haven't yet sent the full set of maps I referenced in the PSC meeting the other day. The folks who developed the maps are not in the office, and I need their help to sort through a number of maps in the GIS folder to find the correct ones. So, when staff are back on Monday I'll ask for help! And as Marty says below, I plan to forward the full set of maps to the PSC as well, since they didn't have the benefit of viewing the details for all of the study areas I referenced. Thanks for your patience. Also, I wanted to thank you for the note below and for your efforts and advocacy. Deborah Deborah Stein I Principal Planner I Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability 1900 SW 4th Avenue I Suite 7100 I Portland, OR 97201 I 503.823.6991 deborah.stein@portlandoregon gov www.portlandoregon.gov/bps To help ensure equal access to City programs, services.and activities, the City of Portland will provide translation, reasonably modify policies/procedures and provide auxiliary aids/services/alternative formats to persons with disabilities. For accommodations, translations, complaints, and additional information, contact me at 503,823-6991, City TTY 503-823-6868, or use Oregon Relay Service: 711. From: Meg Merrick [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 11:11 AM To: Stockton, Marty Cc: Stein, Deborah; Rod Merrick; Clark Nelson Subject: Re: Slideshow from today's BPS Commission meeting Thanks, Marty! As you may have seen, I have responded to the overall neighborhood email discussion about yesterday's meeting that we need.to move on and we need to move forward. And what that means is that we support the mayor's residential zone initiative in any way that we can. Our request for the zone change came in large patt with the understanding that the residential zones no longer had any real meaning and that the only way to protect ourselves, given the current code, was to acquire the minimum lot size of the current R7 zone (4,200 sq ft) - in other words, given the actual density of the neighborhood, which to us is characteristic of the cmTent meaning of the R7 zone, and playing by the nonsensical rules of the Alice in Wonderland world of the current code would get us closer to the minimum lot size of 5,000 sq ft - the typical meaning ofR5. But as you know, once we understood the craziness of the current code, we have always advocated for a serious review of the code and its impacts on the city as a whole. Part of what has been so frustrating about this whole process is that BPS can't even model the code's real impacts given the data and resources that it has. I would note that comments by BPS staff relating to the actual impacts of the code on neighborhood were incorrect in that the impacts of the underlying lots in the historic Eastmoreland section of the neighborhood have not been analyzed. Rod and I went through that exercise for a p01tion of the no 1th west pa1t of the neighborhood and came up with a large number of possible new lots. 187832 City of Portland EOA / Comprehensive Plan Amendments WWC Issue Matrix -, Issue WW C's Position PSC Recommendation WWC's Response I. Cargo Forecast. Should the City assume a Yes. No. PSC adopted a low cargo forecast due to land The City Council should adopt a medium-growth forecast for medium-growth cargo forecast for harbor-related • A low-growth cargo forecast is not supported by substantial evidence in supply challenges. harbor-related tonnage across all cargo types . tonnage across all cargo types? the record. • A low forecast overlooks historical trends, recent infrastructure improvements and it sends the wrong message to Oregon businesses and the public. • A low cargo forecast is _inconsistent with region's forecast assumptions 2. Brownfield Redevelopment. Should the City No. Yes :PSC assumed 60% brownfield re- The City Council should assume a more modest amount of assume that a large amount of brownfield • Brownfield re-development to industrial is difficult due to time and cost development in Portland harbor, which is 20% brownfield redevelopment along the harbor during the 20 year redevelopment to industrial uses will occur in the associated with addressing contamination, ownership issues and the higher than what they assumed in the 2012 adopted planning period, until brownfield redevelopment returns a harbor during the 20 year planning period? market constraints on industrial property (industrial attracts only $5-7 EOA. reasonable amount ofland to the industrial supply along the /foot, regardless of what it costs to bring it to market readiness). harbor. 3. Unfunded Transl)ortation lmQrovements. Should No. Yes. PSC adopted the TSP with 78% ofcity The City Council should not assume that improvements to the the City assume that unfunded transportation • The city should not take credit for the additional through-put that could resources targeted to active transpmiation projects transportation system will create more cargo efficiency and improvements will create more cargo efficiency and result from transpmiation investments and the elimination of bottlenecks instead of improvements to road and rail to support increase industrial land capacity until such improvements are 1crease industrial land capacity along the harbor? if there isn't certainty (funding or other commitments) around specific harbor businesses. funded. rail and road projects that support harbor businesses. 4. Office Job Relocation. Should the City assume No. Yes. PSC low forecast assumes a share of harbor The City Council should not assume that office jobs associated that office jobs associated with harbor businesses • The admin ftmctions for the harbor businesses are limited and intended to businesses' administration functions move to free with harbor businesses will relocate and increase industrial land will move elsewhere and increase industrial land serve the business operations. Moving that function would both affect up more industrial land in the harbor. capacity along the harbor, until there is substantial evidence over capacity along the harbor? the efficiency of the operation and add cost. a period of time that job movement is occurring and land capacity is increasing as a result. 5. Middle hlcome Jobs. Should the City support Yes No. PSC low forecast assumes 1% or less of annual The city council should assume a more robust harbor forecast additional middle income job growth in the Portland • The harbor employs more than 31,000 men and women and supports growth in the harbor-limiting job opportunities consistent with data and trends and provide support in the harbor1 29,000 more employees that are largely paid middle income wages. This and procurements of supplies, raw materials and Comprehensive Plan for middle income jobs growth by is a place ofjob diversity and predominantly middle wages. Job growth services from local businesses. • Targeting investment and polices to support harbor here is what our City needs to ensure future work force diversity and business expansion wages to afford a reasonable standard of living in Portland.