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New Look Exercises
Friday was the infamous first New Look Regional Forum, which opened with an apology for the $30 registration fee. Hopefully that’s the last to be said of that issue. I was there for about 2/3rds of the forum (sadly I had to leave for a City Club Forum on one of my favorite subjects). I…
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First They Charge, Then They Offer to Pay…
Last week I railed about the fact that Metro was charging admission to the New Look Regional Forum coming up next Friday. Apparently pre-registration is strong – approaching 300 (no word on how many of those have requested scholarships as I urged). So, Metro is now looking for additional facilitators for the small-group sessions that…
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Time for Some Civil Disobedience
Update: 13 June – The issue is covered in today’s Oregonian: “Talk to Metro, but skip the fee”, including a URL for this blog. Speaking of the Regional Transportation Plan Update and Metro’s New Look, Metro has scheduled a Regional Forum on Friday, June 23rd to help gather ideas for the simultaneous updates of our…
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Thinking Big Thoughts
The Future of our Transportation – Big Ideas and Outcomes We’ve been hearing from Metro that the Regional Transportation Plan Update just getting underway is going to be different. (See Council President Bragdon’s remarks (PDF, 31K) and Councilor Burkholder’s comments (PDF, 31K) from the April 20th stakeholder forum.) They say the new RTP is going…
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First Major Public Event in RTP Process
The “New Look” process, the update of both our regional land use plan and our Regional Transportation Plan, calls for a wide variety of public outreach methods. Included are three major “regional forums.” The first has been scheduled: New Look at Region Choices Regional Forum 2006 Save the Date 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday,…