Posted on March 8, 2010 at 11:32 am
A room of area residents representing various city bureaus, environmental conservation efforts, development efforts, neighborhood associations and professional arborists met last week to further discuss Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability’s (BPS) Citywide Tree Project (CTP). Although many in the group seem unable to recollect the beginning of their ‘stakeholder sessions,’ most easily admit the [...]
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Posted on February 24, 2010 at 2:27 pm
The Citywide Tree Project (CTP) continues its public vetting process, with two open-houses and one hearing scheduled for next month. Last week, the urban forestry commission received individual copies of the 755-page document that is described as a “regulatory improvement project” by Project Manager Roberta Jortner of the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS). Last [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2010 at 9:12 am
For the first time since 1980, the City of Portland is rewriting its codes and policies, including urban forestry. Eric Engstrom of the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS)—the bureau spearheading the all-encompassing Portland Plan—presented to the Urban Forestry Commission last Thursday on their specific topic and the overall status of the project. Calling [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2010 at 11:15 am
Over two years in the making, Portland’s Citywide Tree Project (CTP) is still moving towards completion, according to the city’s project team that reported the most recent status at yesterday’s Urban Forestry Commission meeting at City Hall. Managed by the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability, the CTP is in stage three of four, which on [...]
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