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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Metro Should Scrap Visioning and Long-Range Planning
Description: Metro will soon be revising its 1995 Regional Framework Plan, also known as the 2040 plan. The vision of 2040 advocates was for the Portland region to “build up,not out” by maintaining a tight urban growth boundary, mandating the construction of apartments rather than single family homes, stopping any more highway building, and spending billions of tax dollars on transit. They assumedthat this would lead to a better quality of life, but they were wrong.Housing is now unaffordable due to land scarcity and the high construction cost of building high rises. High priced housing has doubled the homeless popu...