When we protested that we did not want to be densified as
planners intended, they told us that if we didn't let them rezone
Oak Grove now, Metro would require them to rezone us to higher
densities later. Metro is Portland's regional planning agency
and it gave population targets to Clackamas County and all of
the cities in the Portland area. Planners were required to rezone
neighborhoods to meet their population targets.
Metro's office building, shown here, is a former Sears department
store. Rather than tear the building down and build a new one,
which would have cost $15 million, Metro proved their planning
skills by recycling the old Sears building -- at a cost of $30
million.
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