POTF Land Use & Transportation – Materials and Contacts
Individuals Consulted
Eileen Argentina Portland Office of Transportation
Constance Beaumont Department of Land Conservation and Development
Rob Bertini Portland State University
Dan Bower Portland Office of Transportation
Rex Burkholder Metro
Roland Chlapowski Commissioner Adams’ Office
Stuart Cowan Autopoiesis
Michael Dennis Willamette Pedestrian Coalition
Steve Dotterrer Portland Bureau of Planning
Damon Fordham Oregon Department of Transportation
Roger Geller Portland Office of Transportation
Lavinia Gordon Portland Office of Transportation
Bob Hillier Portland Office of Transportation
Peter Hurley Portland Office of Transportation
Jim Karlock Citizen
John Kaufmann Oregon Department of Energy
Susie Lahsene Port of Portland
Beth Meredith Living Spaces Design
Jim Newcomer Confluence Point Consulting
Pam Peck Metro
Deena Platman Metro
Bob Robison Pedestrian Advisory Commission
Julie Rodwell Oregon Department of Transportation
Peter Schoonmaker Illahee
Phil Selinger TriMet
Eric Storm Living Spaces Design
Bridget Wieghart Metro
Materials Reviewed
architecture2030.org – online documents from www.architecture2030.org/current_situation/current5.html
“U.S. Energy Consumption” data and “2030 Challenge Targets”
Berkowitz, Edward. Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies. Columbia U. Press, NY: 2006.
Sightline Institute – Cascadia Scorecard 2006 Focus on Sprawl & Health
City of Portland Bureau of Planning – online documents from
http://www.portlandonline.com/planning/index.cfm?c=42773
“Comp Plan Context: 1980 to Today”, Chapters 1-8
“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”
“Funding Peak Oil and Climate Change Preparedness and Schools” by Eli Lamb – source unknown
American Trucking Associations – FHWA Talking Freight Seminar Series: Energy Issues and the Impacts on Freight Transportation by Richard Moskowitz, May 17, 2006 (copy of a presentation)
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. – Effect of Fuel Prices on Professional Truckers by Todd Spender, OOIDA Exec. VP, August 23, 2006 (copy of a presentation)
Global Insight – Global Economic Trends and Trade Patterns by Paul Bingham, October 12, 2005 (copy of presentation)
Jim Karlock – “A Comparison of Energy Consumption of Cars, Transit Buses, Rail, and Air” based on data found in The Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 25-2006
Metro – New Look at Regional Choices February 2006
Cambridge Systematics, Inc. – Oregon Transportation Plan Policy Analysis 3.0 Sensitivity Scenarios
Oregon Transportation Plan (in particular, Pages C-50 – C-52)
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP/docs/ortransplanupdate/05otpVol1jul.pdf
ODOT – Transportation Key Facts 2006. http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/COMM/docs/key_facts/04KeyFacts_final.pdf
Pew Research Center – History Repeats Itself: As the Price of Gas Goes Up, The Nation’s Odometer Slows Down
“The Cost of Congestion to the Economy of the Portland Region.” http://www.portlandalliance.com/pdf/Congestion_Report.pdf
Portland Office of Transportation – one page outline on bicycles and walking statistics
Portland Office of Transportation – summary of Transportations Options program
Metro – Regional Transportation Options 2004-05 Program Evaluation, Final Report, July 12, 2006
TriMet – “Notes on Transit Responsiveness to a Peak Oil Shift” by Phil Selinger, August 28, 2006
October 16, 2006
Proposed Recommendations on Accessible Development Patterns
Overarching Recommendations:
I. Foster a land use pattern and transportation system that will make it easier for people to shift trips to walking, biking and transit when oil prices stimulate changes in travel behavior.
II. Prioritize investments in improvements to the city’s network of pedestrian and bicycle facilities, especially in areas of low accessibility.
Specific Recommendations
The city should:
1. Rate each Portland neighborhood on its degree of “accessibility”: the degree to which retail, profession and civic services (such as grocery stores, schools, doctors’ offices, libraries, transit stops, day-care centers, cafes and restaurants, dry cleaners, hardware stores, parks, banks) lie within convenient walking and bicycle distance from households within the neighborhoods.
2. Map those portions of Portland neighborhoods that do NOT lie within ½-mile of a grocery store of neighborhood size (15,000 to 35,000) or larger.
3. Develop an action plan of measures to improve neighborhood accessibility, such as improved pedestrian and bicycle facilities; more flexible zoning to allow neighborhood-scale retail, professional and civic services, or to allow additional dwelling units to create a market for such uses.
4. Implement Metro’s Corridor Study: designate Corridor stretches (portions of 82nd Avenue, e.g.) for revitalization (residential/retail/office), supported by frequent transit service.
5. Develop “location-efficient mortgage” programs in neighborhoods with a high degree of accessibility.
6. Encourage Metro to refine its modeling capabilities to enable it to evaluate the effects of combustion engine fuel increases on land use patterns and travel behaviors.
7. Encourage Metro to minimize expansion of the urban growth boundary (UGB).
8. Encourage Metro to provide permanent protection to prime farmland close to the UGB.
9. Place parking meters in well-developed retail districts (Hawthorne; NW 23rd; Gateway); earmark a portion of parking revenues for pedestrian/bicycle improvements within district.
10. Enhance “individual marketing” in those neigh