Agenda 4/6

2:00-3:30 pm; 1900 SW 4th Ave, Rm 2500

Welcome

Purpose of PPAG, core goals

Preview April/May workshops

Draft Portland Plan objectives

Brainstorm questions

DIRECTIONS AND OBJECTIVES

Neighborhoods and Housing

•  This is more about housing than neighborhoods.

•  Define universal design

•  Balance incentives, regulations and costs

•  Mention 30% set aside for housing (PDC)

•  Restore/more livable housing

•  Homelessness objective is too strong

•  Is it a clear mandate or a value judgment: increasing the number of family-friends units in places like Central City?

•  Why challenge developers to provide workforce housing? Whose responsibility is it?

•  Define Metro’s housing types

•  Define transportation costs

•  How is reducing GHG emissions from homes affordable?

Equity, Quality of Life and Civic Engagement

•  Develop new methods for engagement – market research, polling, focus groups. These are more equitable because more points of view will be represented (see Boulder, CO)

•  Delivering good service value and stabilizing communities are two different things

•  Draw distinctions between the different directions and objectives

•  Add measures and hard numbers so everything isn’t qualitative.

Prosperity and Business Success

•  Need more quantifiable goals

•  The goals need to be more specific

•  Can we achieve these goals without throwing money at them?

•  Tie goals to measures

•  Jobs – focus on entry level and living wage

•  Strengthen brownfields and superfund

•  Protect industrial zones

•  The objectives seem to be in competition with each other; it should be explained that they are complementary

•  We leap to higher education without addressing secondary school and incentives to stay in school

•  Add civic ecology – build into sustainable businesses

•  How do we measure the competitiveness of Portland’s businesses in the global economy?

•  Add support for small businesses

•  Address community colleges

•  Business climate is a marketing challenge

•  Address diversity in employment sectors

•  Increase company headquarters

•  Recognize significance of schools, parks, etc. in economic development

•  Better economic development tools: which tools actually work? Do those.

Health

•  Noise is missing

•  #1 us access to healthy and affordable food

•  This topic does a good job at low investment/high-yield actions

•  The term “access to opportunity” is too vague

•  Access to community gardens is measurable

•  Add “__% aware that there is a Neighborhood response Team and crime prevention specialist and how to contact them.”

•  In the public decisions objectives, would “well-being” be more understandable and investments should benefit all populations

•  Establish a 311 systems for non-emergencies and better connect neighborhood associations and neighborhood emergency teams

•  “passive natural experience” is hard to understand

General

•  Need a costs/benefits analysis

•  Define terms

•  Merge directions into a combined statement and then break down into details

•  It is an overwhelming amount of information to read and respond to without parameters ($), since they all sound good.

•  Be careful to make sure people don’t see these as “either/or”

•  Glossary

•  All objectives need to be measurable: physically, financially...

•  Survey public every five years

•  Address what government can and can’t do

•  Provide supporting information for each objective

•  Make sure all objectives are actionable

•  Decrease techie language

•  Tension between items like increasing affordability and getting to net zero ghg emissions from homes

DISCUSSION QUESTION BRAINSTORM

Group #1

•  Which of nine Action Areas has the greatest “multiplier effect” to boost the others?

•  What are the advantages of achieving equity in the workforce?

 a. lower cost for …

 b. higher incomes

 c. improved health

 d. improved safety

•  If infrastructure improvements are needed to achieve objectives, how should we pay?

 a. Taxes

 b. LIDs

 c. public-private partnerships

 d. reallocation of existing budget resources

•  How can we best achieve sustainable business practices?

 a. tax or fee reform

 b. regulatory improvement

 c. education

 d. create markets for waste products

 e. recognition/awards

•  What is the best way to simultaneously create stable neighborhoods and excellent schools?

•  What types of services should be included in 20 min neighborhoods and what canwe do to attract the desired services?

•  How should we attract and retain a competent workforce?

 a. marketing and recruitment

 b. encourage entrepreneurship and home grown businesses

Group #2

•  If you could only spend money on one or two of these things, what would you spend your money on?

•  Yes/No to an integrated idea:

As we remake our schools, we should have housing and businesses integrated into the design.

•  To what extent does your neighborhood contribute to your health?

•  Are there ways to integrate public spaces, neighborhoods, and arts?

•  If you had access to art in your neighborhood would you walk/attend/meet neighbors. Community project hubs.

•  How do we eliminate (reduce) dependence on cars?

a.  free transit

b.  tolling/congestion pricing

c.  more jobs near homes

d.  more bike infrastructure

Group #3

•  What Action Area will require the most regional cooperation/partnership to succeed?

•  What Action Area will require the most change in the future?

•  What Action Area will require the least change in the future?

•  To what extent does your neighborhood contribute to your health?

•  What is the most unfair thing in town? What government action can help to solve?

•  What does your neighborhood need to be a 20-minute neighborhood?

•  Which Action Area has the greatest “multiplier effect” to create success in other objectives?

•  What should be the first focus to improve equity?

a.  education

b.  housing

c.  jobs

d.  health