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PROCESS OBJECTIVES
1. To provide an independent, community-based
design and planning process to inform UGB expansion deliberations and
provide a positive model for growth for other parts of the region, the
state, and the west.
2. To illustrate the results of applying community design best practices
that satisfy local, regional, state and national policies and laws intended
to protect land, water, species at risk and air resources.
3. To ensure the incorporation of local knowledge into design proposals.
4. To use the integrated process of a design workshop to maximize interaction
and communication between government, citizens, and community design professionals,
and other interested groups.
5. To create opportunities for interchange between Portland area community
advocates and design professionals, and their peers from across the west
and from other parts of North America.
6. To disseminate the results of the design workshop to as wide as an
audience as possible.
DESIGN OBJECTIVES
The following design objectives are derived from existing local and regional, state, and national planning and policy documents. Deriving design objectives from this previously adjudicated policy base insures that the products emerging form the workshop will conform to the public will. We have organized these objectives into four linked categories: transportation, community design, natural systems restoration, and economic development.
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1. Provide transportation choices for residents,
including transit, bike, foot, and auto - choices for those who own a
car and for those who don't.
2. Integrate land use and transportation design in order to decrease average
trip length and vehicle miles traveled.
3. Ensure that job sites, schools, shopping, recreation, have efficient
connections to the new communities as well as to the rest of the region.
4. Develop an interconnected local street and pathway system that makes
it easy to get around but respects the character, identity and landscape
of the Damasus area.
5. Design a regional transportation system that accommodates freight and
recreational traffic and that respects the visual/aural quality and ecological
integrity of the Damascus area. .
6. Ensure that the transportation system is compatible with and/or strengthens
local and regional economic development and other design objectives.
7. Ensure that every neighborhood includes well-designed,
energy efficient homes for people of all income levels, meeting or exceeding
Damascus area target for affordable housing. Suggest ways to insure that
those communities remain mixed-income over the long term.
8. Preserve, to the maximum extent possible, at least an equal number
of housing types and tenures to those presently existing, particularly
affordable homes, seeking ways to grow the new community incrementally.
9. Ensure that there is a balance of jobs to housing in the area such
that sufficient housing opportunities are available to households of all
income levels that have a family member working in the area.
10. Ensure that housing units at each range of cost are integrated into
all neighborhoods in the area (to minimize exaggerated concentrations
of poverty and wealth).
11. Create designs that lend themselves to ownership and financing strategies
that will protect the affordability of the housing created for low and
moderate-income people in perpetuity, ensuring that the area will include
a full range of housing choices over the long term. Suggest policy tools
to insure this.
12. Create complete communities where homes, businesses, industries, schools,
public facilities, agricultural and natural areas are designed together
to magnify and reinforce community quality, identity, and value.
13. Incorporate recreation, stormwater management, and environmental and
cultural education into public spaces.
14. Layer multiple public uses into community spaces and facilities (such
as schools).
15. Foster local economic development and community activities that regenerate
and support natural systems, strengthen the local economy, enrich neighborhood
development patterns, prevent residential displacement, support the regional
food system, and ensure access by all community members.
16. Identify, preserve and celebrate local historical, cultural and archeological
heritage.
17. Provide an efficient distribution of services throughout the area.
18. Suggest creative, economically feasible phasing and financing strategies
for public service and facilities, including schools.
20. Identify and ensure that natural areas and
fish and wildlife habitat are protected, restored, and enhanced.
21. Support biological diversity by protecting and restoring ecological
processes and functions that sustain them.
22. Preserve, create, maintain, and link the publicly owned parks, natural
areas, farmland and open spaces that are recreational assets and natural
resource treasures.
23. Preserve and restore natural stream systems to achieve clean water,
natural flows and healthy watershed function.
24. Conserve a network of natural patches and corridors, and suggest sustainable
development and land management strategies for these areas that will support
and enhance native fish, wildlife, and plant communities over time.
25. Provide ecological links for habitat and recreation movement both
within the Damascus area and between the Damascus area and the wider region.
26. Restrict urban development on all natural hazard areas (for example,
earthquake, floodplain, steep slopes and debris flow).
27. Suggest acquisition and long-term maintenance strategies that use
an integrated "systems" approach to achieve fairness among landowners.
28. Use the best available science for sustainable development; suggest
strategies for environmental monitoring to advance our understanding of
best sustainable development practices and adaptive management strategies
for the Damascus area and elsewhere.
29. Restore urban forests in developed areas.
30. Protect important views, trees and key cultural heritage resources.
31. Design natural areas to promote environmental education.
32. Promote taking action today to preserve opportunities to meet the
above objectives now and into the future.
32. Devise regionally fair and realistic funding
approaches to providing and maintaining parks, schools, affordable housing,
roads and other public facilities.
33. Ensure that plans and designs are feasible, marketable, and that public
investments and amenities also lead or encourage market development of
the type desired by the community.
34. Explore ways of reducing the immediate and life-cycle costs of roads
and other infrastructure improvements.
35. Encourage compact growth through appropriate financing strategies,
ensuring that this development pattern supports small, local business.
36. Provide the area with its fair share of living wage jobs balanced
to affordable housing stock.
37. Encourage a land ownership pattern that maximizes opportunities for
small scale and locally owned enterprise, including agriculture.