Again, they'll whine "NIMBY neighbors" so long as they can't get something they want. As soon as they get it, though, suddenly they don't want it any more, leaving everyone else to clean up the mess.

Agree that "NIMBY" is a badge of honor. . .

I suppose this term was created to make people who stand up for their neighborhood livability feel bad?

NIABY is my response. Not in Anyone's Back Yard.

I cannot tell you how ticked it makes me to hear that apartments w/o parking lots are "transit oriented." No, they are gridlock oriented, as studies have shown, over and over, that building apartment buildings without parking does not actually reduce the % of people in those buildings who own cars. The developer saying "well, we're marketing this to people who like transit" does not make them transit oriented. Apartment buildings will substantially increase the number of cars parking in an area, and using that area's roads. The only question is whether or not the city expects builders to make *some* allowances for onsite parking.

Cramming more people into the inner core and expecting less cars is another indicator that our society is getting more delusional by the hour.

The next logical step will be using these bunkers as commercial billboards and expecting less consumption.

Our city of experimentation will become known as what to stay away from emulating.
The City of Gridlock!
Gridlock in more ways than one.

In my opinion, these planners "know" the plans are leading to more gridlock, so in order to cover up what their horrendous plans have brought about, they have decided to push cars out of the equation. I am sure we are paying plenty in our planning bureau as to how to convince us now that they know best!

Unfortunately, they can change good codes and there are the ubiquitous adjustments and that mitigation word!!
Has anyone kept up on that Comp plan?
How many pages in that document?

clinamen, the Comp Plan work scares me. I can see them sneaking a bunch of zoning changes into that.

Like you, I am not a NIMBY, because there isn't one of these zero-parking apartments in my backyard. They won't affect me directly and they still tick me off, because they are so shortsighted and defy simple common sense. They're bad for the city as a whole, and the Eastside in particular.

Snards,
The Comp Plan working draft of January 2013 is 285 pages. According to this we can comment by May 1, 2013. There is also a companion guide. It looks like there will be a working draft part 2 in the summer of 2013.

http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/429864

I noted that on
p. 7 - one of several Key Directions:
Create healthy, complete neighborhoods.

p. 15 -
Respect local context
Each area of Portland has its own distinctive characteristics
that are valued by community members. Different places
are distinguished by their uni
que topographies, natural
features, histories, assets, patterns of development and
types of buildings.
Instead of following a one-size
-fits-all approach, growth
and change can be harnesse
d to enhance positive and
valued community characteristics by building on the
strengths and assets of each area.

I really couldn't go much further today and don't know if I have the fortitude to brace myself or even want to for 285 pages and more.

"Each area of Portland has its own distinctive characteristics that are valued by community members."

Left unsaid: "And a team of city planners will tell you what those are."