A public university as city planner and developer: Experience in the “capital of gfood planning”

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Quote from official website of the State of Oregon's Land Conservation and Development Commission, www.lcd.state.or.us/LCD/goals. 2. www.parks.ci.portland.or.us/Parks/SouthParkBlocks.htm. 3. American zoning ordinances typically establish zoning districts within which various land uses are either allowed 'by right' or prohibited. A 'conditional use' is a use which is neither allowed by right nor prohibited; rather it is a use which may be prohibited or allowed depending on the merits of the case—as is the case with virtually all proposed developments under the British planning system. 4. It is important to note that the mixed-use requirement applied to all development, including university buildings. Thus, all new university buildings in the University District must include commercial uses on the ground floor. 5. The aim of integrating PSU into the University District was achieved in part by incorporating commercial uses into the ground floors of new university buildings, in accordance with the City's zoning ordinance. The aim of integrating the University with its community was also achieved by undertaking scattered site, as opposed to contiguous, university development. 6. One other factor that readers should be aware of that helps assure that local governments and public agencies in Oregon act in accordance with statewide goals and adopted plans is the existence of 1000 Friends of Oregon, an independent, non-profit organisation that was instrumental in achieving passage of Oregon's planning system in 1973. 1000 Friends of Oregon continues to serve a 'watchdog function' to make sure that public agencies fulfill their responsibilities and act in accordance with adopted plans. In cases when governments and public agencies have not acted in accordance with adopted plans and state policies, 1000 Friends has not hesitated to file suit in court to force compliance. 7. For example, Trinity College, Union College, Clark University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University have invested millions of dollars in projects and activities intended to improve conditions in their host communities.