The Portland Plan, a 162-page mission statement for guiding Portland's path to 2035, took more than two years to create. No one's put a final price on that effort. But officials with the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability are calling its completion a "watershed moment."
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Posted on March 21, 2012
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10:32 a.m.
Mar 22, '12
From my blog post "Just throw the draft Portland Plan in the trash" (here):
"The major problem with it is that, at a time of revolutionary changes in the global economy, it is just too timid, too cautious, and too dull to serve as the “vision” document for a 21st century city. It needs to be bolder, more visionary, more edgy, weirder, and more relevant to a world of exploding economic growth abroad. This document was made by endless committees. It shows. This document is not for Sam Adams’ “scrappy, international city.” This document is for a complacent, nice, provincial city trying to exist apart from the rough-and-tumble broader world. It is not a place I am excited about living in."