PORTLAND -- Metro staff made its recommendations for urban and rural reserves ... While the report did not contain a map showing specific recommendations for reserves, its text did lay out some ...

Metro would select urban reserves, areas in which the urban growth ... the current urban growth boundary for further study. Maps of the draft study area will be presented at a series of open ...

Half the area set aside for urban reserves is in ... on a 30-person Metro steering committee that helped develop the reserves. “That’s a road map for a 50-year war,” Stone said.

If approved, the expansion will provide for approximately 3,700 new housing units in the urban reserve’s 1,200 acres, near existing natural areas like the Cooper Mountain Nature Park.

(PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Metro is assessing ... feedback on the draft urban growth report and the Sherwood proposal to expand the urban growth boundary into urban reserves adjacent to the city.