Urban and rural reserves
Planning and conservation › Land and development › Urban and rural reserves
Find out about a unique new collaborative process the region is using to choose the best places for future urban growth. Learn how regional partners are identifying lands that won’t be urbanized for the next 50 years. Share your views.
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Making the Greatest Place
How do you think the region should grow? View a timeline for key decisions between now and the end of 2010. More
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Shaping the region for 40-50 years
What are urban and rural reserves? Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and Metro are leading a regional process to identify land for future urban development and protect farms, forests and natural areas for the next half century...More
Creating the regional reserves system
How will the final reserves system be created? Find out how representatives from Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and Metro are crafting the final regional map and agreements to establish urban and rural reserves...More
Share your views
You can help shape future urban and rural reserves. Learn about the reserves designation process, consider candidate areas and share your insights...More
Regional Reserves Steering Committee
Learn about this group of 30 people who represented interests from around the region and advise the Metro Council and Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington county commissions on which areas to designate as urban and rural reserves...More
County lands suitable for reserves
What makes a piece of ground suitable for urban development? What keeps working farms or forests in business? Which rivers, wetlands and buttes define our region? Learn which lands each county has determined are suitable for urban and rural reserves...More
What reserves mean for you
Do you own land outside the urban growth boundary? Do you live in a rural community? Find out how an urban or rural reserve designation would affect you...More
Need assistance?
Marcia Sinclair
503-797-1814
reserves@oregonmetro.gov
County partners
Find information about how your county is planning for urban and rural reserves.
Clackamas County
Multnomah County
Washington County