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Portland isn’t perfect but it’s doing a bit better than many places with the elimination of parking minimums and the relative ease of building ADUs.

• oooyay 3y ago
  I do love Portland, but I think within the city we're too uncritical of what goes on here; maybe it's a counter-reaction to sensational national coverage but, imo, equally unhelpful. Dense housing development is being pushed to Eastside (https://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/density/ https://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/density/) which has caused the city to remove trees to expand roads because they built it on roads that weren't ready for it, East sides tree density is 2/3 of what it used to be, single unit housing development has stalled quite a bit, and homelessness/camping enforcement downtown (https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/4c37f1c3b4d14f3599c17094a866d60d/page/Page/ https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/4c37f1c3b4d14f3599c...) is pushing the activity associated with it to Northeast and Southeast. If the tale of two Portlands wasn't already a story when I got here, it's definitely in its second chapter now.
  • NegativeLatency 3y ago
    Yeah that’s fair, I’m really looking forward to some positive changes from the new ranked choice voting but it’s going to take time for stuff to get better.
    • oooyay 3y ago
      100%, I have high hopes for ranked choice voting.