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Urban Design and Research

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City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget Community & Economic Development > Bureau of Planning & Sustainability > Urban Design and Research Urban Design and Research Budget Revenues by Fund 2023-24 Actuals 2024-25 Actuals 2025-26 Revised Budget 2026-27 Proposed External Revenues $127,785 $548,228 $426,512 $160,774 Grants Fund $127,785 $548,228 $426,512 $160,774 Internal Revenues $1,219,594 $1,359,752 $1,535,825 $1,640,830 General Fund $1,219,594 $1,359,752 $1,535,825 $1,640,830 Grand Total $1,347,379 $1,907,980 $1,962,337 $1,801,604 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 $175,724 $405,045 $106,624 $6,400 Services Internal Materials and $446 $641 $3,000 $0 Services Personnel $1,226,326 $1,603,318 $1,888,167 $1,795,204 Grand Total $1,402,496 $2,009,004 $1,997,791 $1,801,604 Program Description and Goals This program leads projects and provides expertise to the work of BPS and the City related to housing, economic development, urban design, and historic preservation. The data-driven, technical expertise provided by the program is critical to ensure land use planning decisions produce the intended results as policies interact with market forces and conditions. The program conducts BPS's work on the state-mandated updates to the Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA), Housing Needs Analysis (HNA), and the newly required Housing Production Strategy (HPS); and leads the bureau's work on anti-displacement policies and strategies. Work is divided into two teams: Housing and Economic Interventions: This team does research to develop housing and economic policies and ensure planning 302

City of Portland Fiscal Year 2026-27 Proposed Budget projects are grounded in technically sound analysis. This includes tracking real estate and development trends, employment, and displacement risk for vulnerable populations. Urban Design Studio and Historic Resources: The Urban Design Studio integrates urban design into projects to create vibrant and inclusive places for all people. They produce plans, analyses, policies, and community engagement that inform decisions on the design of new buildings and public spaces and assist on infrastructure projects such as the Broadway Corridor/USPS (led by Prosper Portland), the Central City Green Loop, the Montgomery Park Area Plan, the Interstate Bridge Replacement Project (IBR) and the Reconnecting Albina Planning Project (RAPP). Many of these efforts are integral to supporting current efforts to promote Central City recovery. Historic Resources staff supports the City's compliance with federal and state laws and the Historic Landmarks Commission on National Register of Historic Places nominations. Services

  • Housing policy and regulation; Economic development policy and regulation; Anti-displacement strategies
  • Market analysis, demographic and development trends and analysis, growth projections; Historic resource protection/historic resource nominations
  • Compliance with state and federal historic resource requirements; Urban design research, analysis, and concept development; Public engagement/graphics and visualization Equity Impacts The 2035 Comprehensive Plan includes equity and anti-displacement policies that provide explicit direction to manage growth to reduce disparities, increase access to opportunities and mitigate the burdens of land use and transportation decisions. The ADAP, the HPS, and the Legacy Business Preservation Program represent different ways the program provides recommendations on equity-centered anti-displacement and equitable development policy, coordination, and implementation. The Urban Design and Research program is actively working to reverse that historical harm by promoting land use changes that increase housing access and choice in high-opportunity communities and developing tools to implement anti-displacement policies to mitigate or reduce displacement risks for lower-income communities. The historic resources staff focuses on the preservation of historic/cultural resources of African American and other underrepresented communities. Changes to Program In FY 2024-25, the Housing and Economic Interventions team concluded its work with a community coalition to develop an Anti- Displacement Action Plan. Since FY 2021-22, the ADAP program has funded grants to community groups to support this work through a combination of City funds and Metro grants. A budget note with the Adopted FY 25/26 budget requested a cost estimate for further task force work and ongoing tracking. The Historic Resources Team will continue recent efforts to diversify the Historic Resources Inventory, with a focus on documenting landmarks and protecting important places with Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ histories as requested by the community. Through external grant funding, the program has also prepared a report with recommendations for a Legacy Business Preservation Program intended to support the continuity of longstanding businesses and institutions?—?primarily those serving historically excluded and underrepresented communities. Additionally, BPS has signed on to an inter-bureau agreement with PBOT, BES and Water to fund a position within the Historic Team that will ensure that city capital improvement projects comply with federal and state historic preservation requirements. 303

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