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The following message is from Metro's Long Range Planning Staff (August, 2004):
Metro is pleased to announce a new interactive web site for viewing the map layers used in the Regionally Significant Fish and Wildlife Habitat inventory. This site can be reached by typing the URL: mazama.metro-region.org/goal5 into a web browser.
The web site allows local jurisdictions, stakeholders, and other interested parties to directly view the map layers used in habitat modeling. The site provides access to inventory information in a clearer and timelier manner. It will allow users to view resource layers including wetlands, vegetation, streams and recent air photos.
Here is a list of features currently available on the site:MAP LAYERSThe new mapping site should empower users to explore the full range of available information and provide a common means of communicating with the staff on map revisions. We are still making changes to the maps to keep them current and handle any factual errors.WEB SITE CAPABILITIES
- Tax lots, UGB, Metro Boundary, County Boundaries, City Areas, Parks, places
- 2002 Air Photos
- Metro Streams
- Clean Water Services Modified Streams
- Water Bodies
- Modified 1996 Flood Inundation
- Modified 100 Year Flood Plain
- Steeply Sloped Ravines
- Simple Vegetated Land Cover 2002
- Metro Wetlands (compiled from local input and national wetlands inventory)
- ESEE Resource Classes
- Habitats of Concern
- Search and zoom to address, intersection or tax lot
- Pan and zoom by interacting with the map display
- Identify additional information about features by clicking on them
- Add or remove layers from the map
- Draw legend depicting visible layers
- Create a printable layout with a map title
If you have suggestions on improving the site or questions about the Regionally Significant Fish and Wildlife Habitat inventory, please call Justin Houk at (503) 797-1664.
On Dec. 5, 2002, the Metro Council updated regional growth policies to protect existing neighborhoods and additional industrial land, and to improve community centers and main streets. The Council approved the expansion of the region's urban growth boundary by 16,300 acres for future housing and by 2,400 acres for employment purposes.
The UGB, in place since 1979, marks the separation between rural and urban areas in the urban portions of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. State law requires Metro to maintain a 20-year land supply within the boundary. The UGB already contained 236,000 acres before the Council's latest actions.
The boundary expansion includes the following areas:In other UBG decisions, the Metro Council finished work on the following areas:
- Damascus/Gresham - 13,000 acres surrounding the unincorporated town of Damascus, stopping short of the community of Boring. Also, 377 acres southeast of Gresham for industrial purposes.
- Rosemont/West Linn - 373 acres next to the West Linn civic center and Rosemont Middle School, bounded on the west by South Wisteria Road.
- Forest Park - an area between Thompson and Northwest Laidlaw roads at the east end of Bethany and 517 acres northeast of Northwest Skyline Road, currently within city of Portland boundary.
- Tualatin/Wilsonville - 183 acres north of Southwest Boeckman Road located northeast of Wilsonville; 62 acres north of Southwest Tonquin Road, between Tualatin and Wilsonville; 216 acres generally north of Southwest Clutter Road northwest of Wilsonville and a small area (15 acres) south of Highway 99W west of Tualatin.
- Sherwood - 85 acres east of Southwest Elwert Road and 231 acres south of Sherwood, bounded on the south the Southwest Brookman Road.
- Cornelius - 16 acres for employment south of Tualatin Valley Highway on the east end of the city.
- Oregon City - 703 acres from four areas: east of Highway 213 to serve as part of a connector between South Holcomb Boulevard and South Redland Road, area west of South Beavercreek Road and south of South Thayer Road and two areas on the southwest corner of the city, served by South End Road.
- Beaverton/Tigard - two areas totaling 520 acres west of Bull Mountain in Tigard along Southwest Roy Rogers Road and west of Southwest 150th. Another 507 acres west of Beaverton and south of Southwest Gassner Road and additional 384 acres west of Southwest 209th Avenue.
- Hillsboro - 88 acres south of Tualatin Valley Highway, adjacent to an earlier UGB expansion area (55 west) currently being planned by the city.
The Council also preliminarily approved a number of additional areas, pending the completion of legal findings to support the decisions.
- Beaverton school site - a specific land-use request for a 10-acre school site for the Beaverton School District in Bethany.
- Shute Road and Evergreen Parkway - the Council included 200 acres on Shute Road and Evergreen Parkway inside the UGB, including an extensive list of stringent conditions. The land can only be used for parcels 50 acres or larger and only to support high-tech industry with special needs.
The Council will finish work on the UGB recommendation on Thursday, Dec. 12. The final area to be addressed will be near Tualatin, comprised of parcels owned by Tigard Sand and Gravel Co. If approved, the site will bring in an additional 225 acres for employment.
- Bethany town center - 1,400 acres in the Bethany area, including the Beaverton school site.
- Forest Grove - a swap of environmentally constrained areas out of the UGB for a similar size site of developable land north of Forest Grove.
- Sherwood - 23 acres near Sherwood for a connector road involving Tualatin-Sherwood Road and Highway 99W.
A map is available on Metro's web site at www.metro-region.org. For more information, call John Donovan, (503) 797-1942.
Metro's has published three handbooks that provide step-by-step methods for better street design. "Creating Livable Streets" is the second edition of Metro's guide to building safer, more livable, multi-modal streets. Two new handbooks were published last spring as part of Metro's Green Streets program. "Green Streets - Innovative Solutions for Stormwater and Stream Crossings" provides design tools for reducing water runoff and making streets more environmentally friendly. A companion book, "Trees for Green Streets," is an illustrated guide to West Coast temperate climate species that are adapted to urban conditions and offer stormwater benefits.
Single copies of each handbook are available free to residents and local governments in the metro region. They are for sale to residents outside the metro region. To purchase copies online, visit the "store" www.metro-region.org or place an order by e-mail to 2040@metro-region.org or call Metro at (503) 797-1839.
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