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He brought a lot of background knowledge and specific examples into his responses, especially around City Projects. He spoke about not just making sure that the Franklin Street redesign happens but specifically prioritizing housing, connectivity, and safer, greener streets. Pious voted for all of our proposals to comply with the spirit of LD2003 to allow for more housing in Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6785ae9c1257bb3461430579/cb3fe7c1-260e-4b70-b215-238e167e0808/aborne.webp Policy - 2025 Portland Local Election Guide - Sam Aborne Sam Aborne is new to public office in Portland. We like his focus on data, comprehensive planning, and removing barriers to housing. However, we felt there was a lack of specific goals, policies, and background in his responses. His support for prioritizing walking, biking, and transit is also somewhat mixed and it is unclear if he supports crucial city projects like the Franklin Street Redesign or the Amtrak Station relocation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6785ae9c1257bb3461430579/37c62b9c-2aee-414b-a70f-7744caf43cf9/phillips.jpg Policy - 2025 Portland Local Election Guide - Regina Phillips Councilor Regina Phillips is currently in her first term as the District 3 City Councilor. She is running unopposed so we don’t have an analysis of her responses. During her term Councilor Phillips voted for housing by voting for most of our amendments to comply with the spirit of LD2003 and allow for more housing in Portland. We look forward to her next term as District 3 City Councilor! https://www.urbanistportland.me/policy/2025-local-candidate-platform monthly 0.5 2025-08-23 https://www.urbanistportland.me/policy/balancing-jetport-parking-expansion-with-sustainable-transportation monthly 0.5 2025-03-04 https://www.urbanistportland.me/policy/recode monthly 0.5 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6785ae9c1257bb3461430579/10c5fa0e-20d9-49f9-9773-c96aad6f8df8/transit.jpg Policy - ReCode Recommendations (Some Adoption) - Transit To get bus routes with frequencies of 15 minutes or less we need the density to support it. Developing dense housing near transit lines, often called Transit Oriented Development, will give us the ridership and tax revenue we need to get high quality transit for all of Portland. Portland's Comprehensive Plan and One Climate Future Plan identify key corridors that have transit today and were identified as places for Transit Oriented Development. Unfortunately, the newly proposed Transit Oriented Development zone category from the city staff's current ReCode proposal are not applied to these corridors at all. Instead, they are applied to just three specific properties in the whole city. This is spot zoning for specific projects, it is not in line with the comprehensive plan, and it is not nearly enough Transit Oriented Development to give Portland the high quality, frequent public transit it needs. We are advocating for applying the new Transit Oriented Development Zone category to all of the corridors that the City has already identified in Portland's Comprehensive Plan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6785ae9c1257bb3461430579/df5f8821-1805-4b49-bfdd-ae14fd5a369d/middle-dense-housing.jpg Policy - ReCode Recommendations (Some Adoption) - Housing Portland made significant progress in allowing for more housing options by implementing state law LD2003. This allows for up to four units on all lots on the mainland. However, barriers to building denser walkable neighborhoods are still in place: Bonuses to height and setback minimums for affordable housing do not apply in residential zones Setbacks, minimum lot sizes, density limits, and height limits make it difficult to build middle-density housing The height per story used to calculate height limits doesn't allow for the insulation needed for modern, green buildings We are advocating for relaxing some of these barriers to bring off-peninsula neighborhoods in line with some of the standards of on-peninsula residential neighborhoods like Munjoy Hill, Parkside, and the West End https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6785ae9c1257bb3461430579/fd3f452e-24c7-4ebf-b105-8c520f3a89bc/Rosefoods.JPG Policy - ReCode Recommendations (Some Adoption) - Complete Neighborhoods To build walkable neighborhoods where residents "have access to the basic necessities of daily life - high quality and affordable housing, schools and other civic functions, food, open space, other amenities and services - within a walkable, bikeable distance" we need to allow for neighborhood-scale mixture of uses within residential areas. Building these sorts of neighborhoods is a goal of Portland's Comprehensive Plan, which is quoted above. It is also a part of Portland's One Climate Future Plan and a goal of ReCode. Unfortunately, the city staff's current ReCode proposal does very little to expand neighborhood mixed use. The currently proposed changes will only effect a small handful of properties the majority of which are mixed-use already. We are advocating for allowing small-scale, low-impact uses like shops, restaurants, and places of assembly to be allowed in all residential zones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6785ae9c1257bb3461430579/356bc880-8363-413e-9489-c6be5846aa20/tdm.jpg Policy - ReCode Recommendations (Some Adoption) - Simplicity To build more housing we need to ensure that our city's approval process can keep up. Under city staff's current ReCode proposal only buildings with four units or fewer can go through the faster, minor site plan review process. 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