Title: Urban Growth Boundaries - PlannersWeb
Headings: Urban Growth Boundaries
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Urban Growth Boundaries
You’re driving along past new developments and then, in what seems like an instant, you’re driving past farmland that stretches far out towards the distant mountains.
No scattered, sprawling housing developments.
No commercial strips. Just farmland, farmhouses, and related agricultural structures.
You’re outside the urban growth boundary.
Impact of the UGB on Housing Prices
When to “Loosen the Belt”?
Summing Up:

Content: Metro councilor Burkholder also noted that the urban growth boundary is designed to work in conjunction with increasing density within the boundary — something achieved through local zoning. That’s clearly happened in Hillsboro’s huge mixed-use Orenco Station development, the focus of our next post tomorrow. Summing Up: Portland’s urban growth boundary — and those used around smaller cities throughout Oregon — seem to be fairly widely accepted, if not uniformly loved (as you saw in the Lincoln Land Institute video). Perhaps the best evidence of this is the fact that the state law requiring urban growth boundaries been in place for some 40 years now. What’s more, the UGBs seem to be working — at least as intended by the legislature. The debate nowadays, as noted, appears more focused on when and where to expand a UGB. The urban g