Changes to credit and debit card processing fees

Starting June 3, 2025, customers who use a credit or debit card to pay their sewer, stormwater, and water bill will pay a 2.95% processing fee. To avoid this fee, customers can make an electronic payment directly from their bank account. Learn more.

Portland is a Sanctuary City

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Portland in the Streets

Program

Portland in the Streets program at the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) covering all the ways community members and businesses can activate public space. Permits for block parties, outdoor dining, special events, food trucks, vending carts, banners over the street, and so much more.

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Image shows the words, "Block Parties" surrounded by games and flowers

Apply for a Block Party permit

Canopies line a street on a partly cloudy day. Lots of people are sitting, standing, and walking among the booths.

Apply for a Community Event Permit

Cover page of annual report, children playing with text overlayed.

2024 Portland in the Streets Community Use Permitting Annual Report

People using street seating part of outdoor dining

Guide to Outdoor Dining Permits (Healthy Businesses, Street Seats, Sidewalk Café)

A group of children play in a sprinkler in the street on a sunny day.

Learn about the Play Streets program

Group of runners dressed in athletic clothes are starting their Shamrock Run. Lots of runners are seen under the Start Banner.

Apply for a Special Event Permit

Aerial view of a large group of attending First Thursday Street Gallery

Upcoming Community Events

Four people standing on the sidewalk near a parked orange food truck. There are trees and flowers visible in the building landscape. It is set in downtown Portland.

Request a Food Truck Location

Male sitting on an artistic chair in a parking spot for parking day.

Apply for a PARK(ing) Day Permit

Banner spanning from one side of a city street to the other side.

Apply for a permit to hang a Cross-Street Banner

Group of people planting ferns

Apply To Be an Adopt-a-Landscape Community Partner

Vending cart

Apply for a vending cart permit in the right-of-way

Contact

PBOT Portland in the Streets team

portlandinthestreets@portlandoregon.gov

711Oregon Relay Service

PBOT Customer Service (by PDX 311)

311@portlandoregon.gov

311Information and Customer Service

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Related offices, programs, and projects

Street closure

Transportation Permitting

Community event and dancing in a colorfully painted street plaza.

Street Plaza Program

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