Main Streets on Halsey Site Readiness and Code Update
Fairview, Wood Village, and Troutdale, OR · 2021
Client: Cities of Fairview, Wood Village, and Troutdale
Location: Fairview, Wood Village, and Troutdale, OR
Year: 2021
CP Role: Lead consultant
Practice Area: Zoning Code Reform
Team: Alex Joyce, Principal-in-Charge and Market Feasibility Lead; Jamin Kimmell, Project Manager; Irene Kim, Engagement Specialist; Allison Platt, Property Tax Exemption Lead; Neil Heller, Code Diagnostics and Site Planning
The Challenge
The Halsey Street corridor links town centers in three cities, and their codes stood in the way of the shared vision in the 2017 Main Streets on Halsey action plan.
Our Approach
We worked with owners of key opportunity sites to find code barriers and drew concepts that showed future development and tested the amendments. We audited each city's regulations, refined draft concepts with technical and stakeholder committees, and delivered adoption-ready amendments for six zones in three cities. When the pandemic hit we moved engagement online, and paid community liaisons carried the survey to Latino and Slavic residents.
Outcome
Fairview and Wood Village adopted the code updates in 2021. About 500 people took the survey, more than a third of them Latino or Slavic residents. Fairview later hired us to design development incentives and a tax exemption program for the corridor.
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