RIP will remove existing affordable housing and mature urban tree canopy in favor of refill with high-impact, high-profit projects, which developers and planners deem "highest and best use" of land previously home to diverse residents.
Rendering courtesy RIPSAC 7
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However! You must sign up to testify by 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 2! Now's your chance to give our leaders a three-minute view of the avoidable outsize impacts of RIP; the deeper, uh, profitability bonus (at least the city's RIP announcement puts "Deeper Affordability Bonus" in quotes--'cause who we kidding); the laughable "limits" on McMansions (assuming they are unchanged from excepting the square footage of "basements" and "attics" generously interpreted); and so on.
Other methods to testify per the Bureau of Planning:
Click “Residential Infill Project” and then click the "Testify" button.
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City Council (scroll down at right for individual commissioners and the mayor)
Residential Infill Project Testimony
1221 SW Fourth Avenue, Room 130
Portland, OR 97204
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