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The City of Portland ordains:

Section 1. The Council finds:

1. The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) are co-sponsoring a Transportation and Growth Management (TGM) Program, which provides resources to help communities to prepare transportation and land use plans to respond to pressing transportation, land use, and growth management issues.
    
2. The mission of the TGM program is to support community efforts to provide transportation infrastructure that supports planned land uses, including reducing development costs related to housing development.
    
3. The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has existing programs aimed at implementing the State Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) and Portland’s Transportation System Plan (TSP), to reduce traffic congestion, improve air quality, improve safety, increase multi-modal transportation opportunities, and improve livability and economic vitality for City residents.
    
4. PBOT has identified a grant proposal to help update and implement the TSP by updating the master street plan and developing new right-of-way standards to guide redevelopment requirements in the Cathedral Park neighborhood, which includes a portion of the St Johns Town Center identified in the Portland Comprehensive Plan.
    
5. Local match in the amount of $35,000 will be provided by funds from General Transportation Revenues in the form of salary, benefits, and materials and services in the FY 2024-2025 and FY 2025-2026 budgets of PBOT.
    
6. PBOT will submit the following grant application:
   1. The Cathedral Park Neighborhood Street Plan will develop an updated master street plan for the Cathedral Park neighborhood that will clarify the intended future design and use of the undeveloped and underdeveloped rights-of-way throughout the area and provide context-sensitive policy guidance for development review and capital projects in the future. The plan will also develop right-of-way standards for the area to specify the appropriate level of roadway improvements to be required as a condition of redevelopment, with the goal of providing the most critical transportation facility needs while reducing the high costs and barriers to housing development currently experienced given steep topography, small block sizes, and stormwater management challenges.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:

1. The Commissioner-in-Charge is hereby authorized to make application to the ODOT/DLCD Transportation and Growth Management Program for one grant in the amount of up to $250,000.
2. The Commissioner-in-Charge is authorized to provide such information and assurances as are required for the grant period.
3. The OMF Grants Office is authorized to perform all administrative matters in relation to the grant application, grant agreement or amendments, requests for reimbursement from the grantor, and to submit required online grant documents on the Commissioner-in-Charge’s behalf.

Section 2. The Council declares that an emergency exists because the grant application is due to ODOT/DLCD by July 27, 2023; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council.