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The Portland City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved an ordinance to re-engage as a partner in the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project. An intergovernmental agreement with the Oregon Department of Transportation moves the project forward and outlines the terms of the city staff’s planning and engineering involvement.

The agreement ensures the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project supports the city’s redevelopment goals for the area, and further advances the project.

Last fall, the Historic Albina Advisory Board advanced the 鈥淗ybrid 3鈥� option for a highway cover design concept that reconnects the east and west sides of I-5 in the historic Albina neighborhood. This design concept is a community-supported vision developed through the Independent Highway Cover Assessment work.

鈥淭his cover provides an opportunity for significant future investment in the community, and perhaps most significantly, in the people who are helping build this project,鈥� HAAB members wrote in a letter to the City Council in support of the agreement. 鈥淣ot only will the project substantially improve safety on I-5 between I-84 and I-405, but it also promises significant opportunities for jobs and economic development benefiting Black Portlanders 鈥� the community most impacted by the original construction of the interstate.鈥�

Albina Vision Trust Executive Director Winta Yohannes also testified in support of the agreement during a June 22 council hearing.

The I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project is a part of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Urban Mobility Strategy, an approach to make everyday travel safer and more efficient in the Portland metropolitan area.

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