The Portland Public Safety Service Area Strategic Plan outlines four overarching goals for the service area.

In 2024, Portland voters will use ranked-choice voting and districts to elect their representatives. Learn more about these new election methods, Portland’s changing form of government, and the implementation of voter-approved charter changes.

The City of Portland is phasing out its commission form of government. This means a change in roles and responsibilities for elected officials and city organization reporting structure that require upgrades to council chambers and offices as well as code, budget, staffing and process updates.

This project will facilitate needed improvements to public infrastructure and allow for management of trees, vegetation, and other natural resources in publicly owned and maintained natural areas.

RICAP 10 is part of an ongoing series of minor technical updates, clarifications, and refinements to Portland’s zoning regulations. Amendments were grouped into three themes: housing production, economic development, and regulatory reduction. RICAP 10 amendments took effect on Oct. 1, 2024.

RICAP 11 is part of an ongoing series of projects that make minor updates to Portland’s zoning regulations to remove barriers to development. The RICAP 11 proposed amendments are grouped into three themes: parking, exterior areas, and regulatory improvement.

The City and its partners are exploring the opportunities and challenges to the future of the Portland'5 Centers for the Arts, including Keller Auditorium, and other large-scale performing arts venues in Downtown. This work will ensure premier productions can continue long into Portland’s future.

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.

RIP2 was unanimously approved by City Council and expanded housing opportunities in Portland’s very low density R10 and R20 zones, added allowances for attached houses and cottage clusters across all neighborhoods, and increased options for homeownership. RIP2 became effective on June 30, 2022.

This project amends the City Sign Code, Title 32, to provide greater sign allowances and flexibility for signs within a mapped designated area called the Rose Quarter Entertainment subdistrict. On Nov. 13, 2024, City Council approved the amendments, which became effective on March 1, 2025.

Environmental Services is making the largest investment in its North Portland wastewater treatment plant in 50 years. The Secondary Treatment Expansion Program (STEP) will expand, upgrade, and replace equipment and buildings that have been in service since the 1970s.

Part 1 of this project, which took effect in 2021, expanded the housing and shelter options for individuals and households with extremely low incomes. Part 2 of the project proposed several refinements based on the initially implemented code language and was adopted in February 2023.

The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and Portland Bureau of Transportation are working with community members to develop transportation and land use plans in South Portland, featuring a Naito Main Street Plan. This planning project is on indefinite hiatus pending transportation funding.

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is currently working to implement Southwest in Motion plan recommendations to improve walking and biking in Southwest Portland.

The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is developing a permanent program for public street plazas. Plazas bring vibrancy to city streets, returning space to pedestrians and offering areas for outdoor seating, events, and community activities open to all.

The City of Portland is working to protect and reinforce all human rights in the development, use, and governance of surveillance and emergent technology and ensure equal respect for and enforcement of all human rights online and offline.