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Urban Growth Boundary: Help Shape the Next Half Century

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	City of Tigard 13125 SW Hall Blvd. Tigard, Oregon 97223	Press Release June 12, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact:	Liz Newton, Assistant City Manager City of Tigard 503-718-2412 liz@tigard-or.gov

Urban Growth Boundary: Help Shape the Next Half Century
The public is invited to open houses to consider Urban and Rural Reserves

Residents of the Portland metro area are invited to join a conversation about how the region will adapt to growth over the next 50 years. To build a foundation for responsible growth, Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and Metro are collaborating in a planning process to determine where and how we will all live, work and play in the decades to come.

Over the next 16 months the four regional partners will cooperatively assess which areas are most suitable future growth as well as identify areas where it is more appropriate to maintain working farms, forests and natural features for the next 40-50 years. This assessment will result in the creation of Urban Reserves and Rural Reserves.

The three counties and Metro have proposed an initial broad study area - approximately five miles outside the current Metro Urban Growth Boundary - as a starting place for considering rural or urban reserve designation. At this very early phase of the planning process, citizens are asked to weigh in on whether these are the appropriate areas to study. Open houses will be held throughout the metropolitan area over the next few weeks. Providing the first opportunity for citizens to learn about urban and rural reserves and share their views.

The following open houses are scheduled in Washington County:

Monday, June 16, 5-8 p.m.
Beaverton Resource Center
12500 SW Allen Boulevard, Beaverton

Thursday, June 26, 5-8 p.m.
Forest Grove Community Auditorium
1915 Main Street, Forest Grove

Thursday, July 10, 5-8 p.m.
Tualatin High School, commons area
22300 SW Boones Ferry Road, Tualatin

Come and learn more about the reserves designation process, consider the study area and discuss this early phase with project representatives from across the region.

For More Information:
2005 - 2060 Regional Population and Employment Forecast
for the seven-county Portland-Beaverton-Vancouver OR-WA Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area