Category: Southwest Corridor

  • The proposed Metro UGB expansion into South Cooper Mountain

    In this month’s open thread, it was noted that Metro was considering an expansion of the urban growth boundary, which will be voted on at Thursday’s council meeting. Metro staff proposed a recommendation containing a list of ten sites (three industrial, and seven residential/commercial); of these ten, three were initially endorsed by the acting Chief…

  • SW Corridor public outreach

    For those interested in the SW corridor project, Metro now has a series of public events scheduled as part of the agency’s public outreach on the project. These events, scheduled during the months of September and October, include an open house, numerous presentations at various local farmers’ markets and other agricultural festivals, and a pair…

  • SW Corridor now has a “fact sheet”

    The public process of the Southwest Corridor project is moving along, with publication of a project fact sheet, and the designation of committee stakeholders. The fact sheet is the more interesting bit, given that it comes with this map showing the corridor area (map courtesy Metro): As you can see, in addition to the “obvious”…

  • Southwest Corridor project starting up, wins $2 million FTA grant

    The next rapid transit corridor to be extensively studied in the Portland Metro area, what many in the media (including us) have been calling the “Barbur Boulevard” corridor, has a new (and more generic) name (The Southwest Corridor) and a $2 million grant from the FTA.