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Comprehensive Planning

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City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget Community & Economic Development > Bureau of Planning & Sustainability > Comprehensive Planning Comprehensive Planning Budget Revenues by Fund 2023-24 Actuals 2024-25 Actuals 2025-26 Revised Budget 2026-27 Proposed External Revenues ($1,330) ($25,149) $264,300 $702,489 Grants Fund ($1,330) ($25,149) $264,300 $702,489 Internal Revenues $918,326 $949,368 $1,158,475 $850,728 General Fund $948,822 $949,368 $1,158,475 $850,728 Grants Fund ($30,496) $0 $0 $0 Grand Total $916,996 $924,219 $1,422,775 $1,553,217 Program Expenses by Major Object Program expenses only include personnel, internal materials and services, external materials and services, and capital. 2023-24 Actuals 2024-25 Actuals 2025-26 Revised Budget 2026-27 Proposed External Materials and $13,024 $115,790 $47,597 $53,200 Services Internal Materials and $14,665 $12,288 $2,000 $0 Services Personnel $1,047,521 $965,139 $1,395,328 $1,500,017 Grand Total $1,075,210 $1,093,217 $1,444,925 $1,553,217 Program Description and Goals The Comprehensive Plan, required by Oregon law, is the City's tool for managing growth, development, and transportation systems to meet long-range goals. This program shapes Portland's growth by maintaining the City's Comprehensive Plan, which strives to create a city where most households live in complete neighborhoods — places where people have safe and convenient access to what they need to be healthy and successful. This means acting, often with other bureaus and agencies, to implement City policy, plans, codes, investments, and programs to grow vibrant centers and corridors in more neighborhoods; increase the supply, variety, and affordability of housing; support commercial development to grow jobs and an equitable low-carbon economy; and protect natural resources. 283

City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget The work falls into two areas:

  • Comprehensive Planning: This work includes maintaining and updating the Comprehensive Plan and Citywide Systems Plan; managing annexations; coordinating the Urban Service Boundary and growth projections with schools, neighboring jurisdictions, and Metro. The team works with infrastructure agencies to coordinate infrastructure plans and participates in citywide asset management coordination. This team conducts research and analysis that helps prioritize where future area planning should be conducted and supports policy development.
  • Transportation and Transit Coordination: This work includes land use and equitable development planning in tandem with major transportation projects with PBOT, Prosper, PHB, TriMet, and Metro. Recent projects included land use support for the several major transportation projects (Interstate Bridge Replacement, TriMet's Red Line improvements, the 82nd Avenue Transit Project) and the multi-year effort to prepare the Montgomery Park Area Plan with land use changes and a planned streetcar line extension, which concluded with City Council adoption in late 2024. Services Comprehensive Plan update and maintenance and implementation through geographic area planning; Land use and infrastructure planning and coordination; Annexations and Urban Service Boundary maintenance; Tracking development and demographic trends; Planning performance metrics. Equity Impacts The 2035 Comprehensive Plan includes equity and anti-displacement policies that provide direction to reduce disparities, increase access to opportunity, and mitigate burdens. The Plan controls the distribution of growth and changes and can have a significant impact on who benefits and who is burdened. Zoning has historically been used to reinforce segregation and protect privileged communities from change while directing change to communities with fewer resources – often communities of color. This group works closely with community-based organizations to understand local needs and is expanding partnerships to ensure that major investments maximize benefits and avoid burdens on vulnerable communities, including renters. The program is working to reverse harm by promoting land use changes that increase housing access and choice in high-income communities and developing new tools to expand opportunities for housing and jobs in high-opportunity areas of the city and to prevent displacement in more vulnerable areas of the city. Changes to Program This team has been reduced in size over the last decade due to incremental budget cuts and currently has limited capacity with only 3.25 FTE funded by the General Fund. This program has 4.0 FTE; with budget cuts from FY25-26 carried over, .75 FTE is being supported by one-time funding from grants and interagency agreements. The staff of this program have been working on the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub Policy Project, which has been a community and City Council priority. This team is also scoping and will undertake the Inner East Rezoning Project, anticipated to be an intensive, multi-year planning process that is both a community and City Council priority and an implementation action of the city's adopted Housing Production Strategy. City staff have pursued grant funding from several sources (the federal Pro-Housing Grant and the State DLCD Housing Assistance Grant) to support this effort. Both projects are high-priority, high-profile projects. 284

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