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This is a list of news items, discussions or other content related to 1000 Friends of Oregon's Land Use Leadership Initiative. Learn more about the Land Use Leadership Initiative's purpose and potential here.
Our Land Use Leadership Initiative drove out TV Highway on Friday, May 17, to visit the diverse, unincorporated Washington County community of Aloha. We met with local organizers and planners working for a better community transportation system. Here, participant Tony DeFalco reflects on what he learned.
Photos by Mark Gamba.
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In April, our Land Use Leadership Initiative met for a frank afternoon discussion of a...
LULI participants discuss Oregon's racial history with Jeri Williams (right) at 1000 Friends' offices in Portland.
Our Land Use Leadership Initiative (LULI) took a tour of North Portland and Cully neighborhoods on Thursday, March 21. LULI Program Coordinator Tara Sulzen reflects on what we learned and discussed.
As members of the 2013 Land Use Leadership Initiative (LULI) prepared for our affordable housing tour on a recent blustery March afternoon, we began by considering what is considered “affordable” for people of different ages, income...
Our Land Use Leadership Initiative (LULI) took a tour of the Portland Metro region's Urban Growth Boundary in Washington County on Thursday, February 21.
Below, LULI participant Josh Baker reflects on what he learned, and participant Mark Gamba shares photos from the tour....
We're pleased to introduce the 20 individuals who have been selected to participate in the second year of our Land Use Leadership Initiative. They come from a diversity of perspectives and professional backgrounds, and together will consider and confront some key issues facing the Oregon and the Portland region.
We're excited to work with them throughout the next six months, beginning...
For our final Land Use Leadership Initiative tour and policy discussion, emerging leaders and advisors traveled to Tigard to see how coordinated land use and transportation planning have been driving the city’s Community Vision effort.
This event wrapped up a year of discussions on various aspects on Oregon’s statewide planning program by focusing on how land use planning can improve transportation planning, and vice-versa.
To set the stage for a lively discussion, our group of advisors and emerging leaders first considered our own favorite...
On Saturday, September 22, our Land Use Leadership Initiative participants joined the 1000 Friends Board of Directors to witness the productivity and pressures affecting some of Oregon’s most productive farmland, in the French Prairie region just south of the Portland metro region.
Our conversations focused on the challenges of keeping this historic yet active farmland in agriculture. We were joined by Ben Williams, President of Friends of French Prairie, representing the farming region that bridges Clackamas and...
Among the most well-known of Oregon’s land use planning tools, urban growth boundaries help ensure efficient growth while protecing the productivity of working farms and forests. But how effectively are they working in Oregon today? Last Friday, August 17, our Land Use Leadership Initiative participants went right to the edge to find out.
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1000 Friends launched the Land Use Leadership Initiative in 2012 to connect established land use and transportation leaders with the next generation of advocates for healthy communities and working landscapes.
The Land Use Leadership Initiative creates a forum for informative conversations, problem-solving, and action around transportation and land use policy challenges and opportunities.
Your financial support will help us protect the places we love (like the Metolius River, above) and keep fostering great Oregon communities. Please consider joining or renewing your membership today.