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The city of Portland is nearing the final phase in the very lengthy process of adopting a new . It is a particularly momentous and long anticipated event since the city has not adopted a full revision to the Comp Plan since 1980. And this for a city known internationally for its planning!

Over the last few months there have been multiple hearings and work sessions, and City Council members are working on suggested amendments for consideration in the upcoming council hearings starting April 14. For the most part the plan does a great job of capturing all of the input from Vision PDX (2004-08) and the Portland Plan (2008-12), and from the last four years of meetings throughout the plan formation process, and putting it all into a new package. Though there will be some refinements in the next few months it deserves to be adopted as soon as possible.

There are, however, major issues that the city and the region will need to address in the next couple of years that this plan has not addressed. Two of the most important are: 1, a long-range (50+ years) strategy for major infrastructure improvements (inter-city/high-speed rail, significant bridges, aging pipes, etc.) and 2, a housing strategy that addresses specifically how and where to expand the full spectrum of affordable housing types 鈥� everything from 鈥渕issing middle housing鈥� to housing the homeless. Because of the regional scale of these issues, they need parallel regional efforts to address them. The city of Portland will have a major role to play, but these issues need to be addressed by all of the regional partners comprehensively to ensure all aspects are considered, and all sources of implementation funding are tapped in a fair manner.