AbstractHow Portland's Regional GIS Has Enabled Fine-Grained Regional PlanningTrack: State and Local Government Author People from around the world come to Portland, Oregon, to study the city's successful model for growth management and comprehensive land-use planning. Few, however, know that this success is enabled by a regional land information system (RLIS) that was conceived and implemented 20 years ago by Metro, the first elected regional government in the United States, along with cooperating local jurisdictions, to help meet state planning requirements. RLIS has since been the key tool used to plan, evaluate policy, and formulate development models in the Portland area. Because RLIS is based on parcel-level data, it allows for very fine-grained analysis and planning. This presentation will lay out the key choices and confluence of circumstances that made RLIS possible and successful, give some examples of the type of planning it has enabled, and trace the development of the system on the basis of 20 years of RLIS data. Matteo Luccio Pale Blue Dot Research, Writing, & Editing, LLC 2381 SE 112th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97216 United States Phone: 541-543-0525 E-mail: Matteo@palebluedotllc.com |