Services, Guides, and Information
22 services and resources found
Annexation
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Annexation is the process of changing municipal boundaries to bring adjacent unincorporated areas into an existing city, typically to provide urban services not presently available. Properties must be within the municipal boundary of the City of Portland to receive City services.
Contact a District Planner
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Learn about the District Planning program at the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS). Find contact information for the City Planners (also known as District Liaisons or DLs) designated for the six districts across the City.
D-overlay zone frequently used terms
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DOZA proposes changes to the design overlay zone. This section provides an orientation to frequently used terms and how they relate to each other.
Design Guideline Documents
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Design guidelines are intended to aid designers and developers in understanding Portland’s urban design expectations and to aid them in preparing for the urban design review process. The review process ensures that these expectations will be met for all proposals in Portland.
BPS’s Economic Development Planning Program supports economic equity, land use planning for business districts, economic development policy, and economic research for bureau projects.
Engage in land use planning
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Videos and resources to explain what land use planning is and how you can participate in the process of shaping the future of our city through the land use planning process.
Look up neighborhood notices or submit your project information online. Find out if a notice about work was posted for your neighborhood. If you found a development site in the City of Portland and want to know more, search for the project online.
Find Zoning Regulations and Zoning Maps
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Find zoning regulations for a site and search zoning maps.
Gentrification and Displacement Studies
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Research on the effects of land use planning and gentrification on Portland’s communities of color and other vulnerable populations.
Portland adopted its first comprehensive plan in 1980, which set forth the land use vision for the city’s long-term future.
Long-range Planning: What we do
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About the current work of the long-range planning program.
Planning Administrative Rules
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Energy efficiency, bird-safe glazing, and low-carbon building requirements in the city of Portland.
Planning document library
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Adopted plans and design guidelines, policy and code, reports and more.
Intersection of Columbia-Industrial Ezone Project, Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA) and Floodplain Resilience Plan.
Planning maps
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Find interactive and printable (full-color, 44" x 34") maps of citywide adopted plans, business associations, Comp Plan designation, FAR and maximum heights, historic resources, neighborhood associations, zoning map, annexations, urban service boundary maps, and more.
Portland's Urban Design team
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The Urban Design team works with the community and agency partners to explore citywide design issues and opportunities within the built environment.
Documents for completed Regulatory Improvement projects.
Submit a request to change City code and regulations in order to improve City building and land use zoning and rules to foster development.
Subscribe to Planning project updates and other emails from BPS
External Resource
Add your email address to the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) subscription lists and receive updates.
The Portland Plan
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The Portland Plan is an inclusive, citywide effort to guide development of Portland over the next 30 years. The plan was unanimously adopted by City Council on April 25, 2012.
Zoning and Comprehensive Plan Maps
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The Zoning Map, in an interactive format, with address search functions. Comprehensive Plan designations are also displayed when a property is selected. Also learn how the Comp Plan and Zoning maps relate to each other.
Zoning Code and Maps
External Resource
Link to Title 33 Planning and Zoning in City Code
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