As the Portland metro area kicks off a long debate over growth and land use, several farming and conservation groups are joining forces on a single vision for how we should grow over the next several decades.
The members freely admit that in the past, they often didn’t agree on big issues. What brings them together now are the common goals of wanting to contain urban growth and make it more dense, while protecting what remains of the metro area’s best farmland and natural places.
It comes as the Metro regional government begins a two week period of public meetings and hearings on the matter.
