Browsing by Author "Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability"

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    Portland : Citywide assets report (2008)
    (City of Portland (Or.), 2008-12) Portland (Or.); Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Portland (Or.). City Asset Managers Group
    This sixth report on the status and condition of the City's physical infrastructure takes a holistic approach to ensure that the City’s assets are adequate to provide desired levels of service. This report seeks to provide coordinated, integrated, fact-based information about the City of Portland’s physical assets that will enhance a ‘whole-of-city’ approach to asset management (AM). It provides an accounting of the number of assets, replacement value, condition, and unmet funding needs. Information in the report will assist the City's efforts to ensure infrastructure is in good condition and that operation, maintenance, rehabilitation, and development programs are as efficient and effective as possible. [From the document]
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    Portland : Civic planning, development, & public works, 1851-1965
    (City of Portland (Or.), 2009-03) Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Portland (Or.)
    This document provides a framework for understanding the history of urban planning and public works in the City of Portland between 1851 and 1965 and for evaluating the significance of City-owned historic resources. The historic context spans a time period of more than a century beginning in 1851, the year Portland was incorporated. [From the document]
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    Portland : Hayden Island plan
    (City of Portland (Or.), 2009-01) SERA Architects; Van Meter Williams Pollack (Firm); Marketek, Inc.; Portland (Or.); Kevin Gardiner and Associates; Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin; David Evans and Associates; Nangeroni Designs; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Parisi Associates; Zenn Associates/JLA Involve
    The Hayden Island Plan is a collaborative effort between the City of Portland and the community to improve accessibility, livability and sustainability of Hayden Island over the next 35 years. Focusing on the portion of Hayden Island within the City of Portland, the plan contains goals, objectives, comprehensive plan and zoning changes, and an implementation strategy.... [From the Plan]
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    Portland : Hillsdale Town Center phased development strategy (2009)
    (City of Portland (Or.), 2009-03-24) Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Portland (Or.)
    This document describes a series of actions to improve the function and appearance of the town center, both in the near- and long-term. Taken together, these physical changes should significantly increase access to and use of the town center. Most were designed to be implemented incrementally and much of the responsibility for implementation rests on the shoulders of the citizens of Hillsdale. [From the document]
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    Portland : Preliminary Westside Central City urban renewal study (2009)
    (Portland Development Commission, 2009-04-24) Portland (Or.); ECO Northwest, Ltd.; Portland Development Commission; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
    This report provides an analysis of the financial feasibility of a potential new urban renewal area (or areas, URAs) in the vicinity of Portland’s Westside Central City, and the ability of such a URA to contribute to implementation of ongoing City plans and processes. [From the document]
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    Portland : Seven Corners urban design strategy (2008)
    (City of Portland (Or.), 2008-12) Portland (Or.); Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Emmons Architects; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Transportation; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Environmental Services
    The goal of this Urban Design Strategy is to identify ways to enhance and support the sense of place of the Seven Corners area in order to realize its potential as a neighborhood center. It also identifies opportunities for infrastructure improvements and private development that will make the area and corridor stand out as a sustainable place in Portland. [From the document]
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    Portland : Urban design strategy (2008)
    (City of Portland (Or.), 2008-12) Emmons Architects; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Environmental Services; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Transportation; Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Portland (Or.)
    The purpose of the strategy was to resolve outstanding issues identified in the Division Green Street Main Street Plan in advance of the design process for the Division Street reconstruction project that will repave the street and provide streetscape improvements from SE 6th to SE 39th Avenue. [From the document]
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    Portland : Vegetation mapping project
    (City of Portland (Or.), 2009-01-21) Portland (Or.). Bureau of Planning and Sustainability; Portland (Or.)
    The vegetation mapping project originated in 2004 as the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability was developing a new automated GIS model to inventory landscape features that contribute to riparian and upland natural resource values and functions. The inventory will update Portland's existing significant natural resource inventories and their related programs. [From the document]