Airport Futures Plan In Place For PDX Airport
6/06/2011

Airport Futures is on its way. Portland City Council and the Port of Portland Commission adopted the integrated, long-range development plan for Portland International Airport and its surroundings, clearing the way for implementation. The plan was developed through a collaborative effort involving the City, Port and Portland-Vancouver metropolitan community.
 
The three-year planning process was guided by a 30-member planning advisory group with input from airport stakeholders. The process included 87 planning advisory group and subcommittee meetings and more than 131 stakeholder meetings. The plan was unanimously endorsed by the planning advisory group and the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission.
 
"I want to applaud everyone who worked on this project to bring it to fruition," Portland Mayor Sam Adams said. "The fact that this came forward from the advisory group in unanimous fashion is wonderful and inspiring, especially because of the complex issues that the advisory group addressed."
  
Airport Futures is notable for a new approach to protecting and enhancing natural resources in and around the airport. Instead of traditional regulation, the plan calls for the Port to mitigate for impacts to wildlife habitat by improving 300 acres of grassland on Government Island in advance of development. The Port also made a strong commitment to the overall enhancement of the Columbia Slough by pledging $1.8 million in tree planting and slough enhancement projects over the next 25 years.
 
Audubon Society's Conservation Director and advisory group member Bob Salinger noted that the Port "not only committed to mitigation, but to restoration, leaving the land better than what exists today."
 
The plan also defines Port transportation mitigation requirements and the process for future transportation impact analyses; affirms commitment to sustainability guiding principles and goals to inform future development and operations; identifies recommendations from a noise work group that explored creative solutions to noise in the neighborhoods; and establishes a process for updating and reporting on noise contour changes.
 
For more information about Airport Futures, please visit www.pdxairportfutures.com.

 

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