Title: Urban growth boundary | Metro
Headings: Urban growth boundary
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Urban growth boundary

Content: The plans and growth projections of Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties, along with 24 cities and more than 60 special service districts, had to be accommodated when drawing the initial boundary. When Metro was created by voters in 1978, it inherited the boundary planning effort. That year, the Oregon Legislature gave Metro responsibility for managing the Portland metropolitan area’s urban growth boundary. Since 1997, Oregon law also requires Metro to maintain a 20-year supply of land for future residential development inside the boundary. In 1980, the Land Conservation and Development Commission approved the region’s initial urban growth boundary as consistent with statewide planning goals. Expansions of the UGB
Oregon’s urban growth boundaries are not intended to be static. Since the late 1970s, the Portland metropolitan area boundary has been expanded about three dozen times. Most moves were small – 20 acres or less. Larger expansions were in: 1998: