Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and Portland Bureau of Transportation staff went before the Planning Commission today for an update on the land use and zoning work done to support the Montgomery Park streetcar extension.
"[Streetcar] has a proven track record of spurring dense, walkable development and affordable housing development," PBOT Planner Shawn Canny told planning commissioners. "It can help us achieve our equity goals and our climate goals, as well as our mode shift goals."
The planning work, which was funded by a transit-oriented development planning grant from the Federal Transit Administration, kicked off in 2019 and included jobs and housing analysis, public engagement, equity analysis and pre-development work on major opportunity sites.
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability staff intend to return to the Planning Commission in the next few months for a public hearing on proposed land use changes.
The Montgomery Park Redevelopment and Transit Project is a planned extension of the Portland Streetcar NS Line along NW 23rd and NW Roosevelt/Wilson with a terminus at Montgomery Park, including the potential for 3,000+ new housing units in a new district north of NW Vaughn Street.