Urban and rural reserves
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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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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
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 about the first steps taken to identify candidate urban and rural reserves...More
You can help shape future urban and rural reserves. Learn about the reserves designation process, consider candidate areas and share your insights...More
Learn about this group of 30 people who represent 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
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
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