East Portland: Another Planning Failure
20th June 2014
Planning of outer southeast Portland has failed so badly that even the planners are recommending that the city slow densification of the area. As reported in the Oregonian late last year, the city upzoned the area to much higher densities but failed to install basic urban services to support those densities. The result is just one more disaster in the model of urban planning called Portland.
Planning only works when the people doing the planning know what they’re doing. Case in point: American foreign policy. But the world is full of people who are convinced down deep in the bottom of their souls that they know better than you do how you ought to be living your life. Case in point: the Democrat Party.