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PSU's Urban Studies Program Considers Project Proposal

In early January, A City by Choice submitted the following project proposal to PSU's Urban Studies Graduate Program. Although the project did not get chosen this year, the proposal received praise from County Administrator Bob Davis and support from Commissioner Greg Malinowski, Commissioner Dick Schouten, and Mayor Denny Doyle and will be maintained at PSU for consideration next year.

    Urban Services

Choose Your Future 

  • Our urban community does not have adequate urban planning or community development services. 
  • Washington County has no published vision, plan or strategy to provide us these services. 
  • We must abide by Metro's 2040 growth policies and grow at the rate of our city neighbors who have these critical services.  

STEP 1: GET INFORMED

See what you pay now in General Government taxes compared to neighboring cities
Read our Governance Project Proposal 
A City By Choice worked with local feasibility experts and highly-skilled neighbors to create the first draft of the Feasibility Study Project Definition. We sent it to Beaverton's Mayor Doyle, Chair Duyck, and Commissioner Malinowski as a place to start. 
Read our survey results 
Over 300 citizens living in the Cedar Creek study area are a representative sample that want to choose their future government structure.
Fall 2010 Survey Summary
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Our urban service issues are not a County Priority
Andy Duyck, Chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, announces his top initiatives for the County to work on.
2011 State of the County Exerpt.pdf
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Understand the Issues
This list comes from what YOU told us via our civic research of talking with over 800 individuals and conducting a survey with over 300 participants.
Issue List.pdf
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Get the background on how we got here.  See the research done by Bruce Bartlett and Virginia Bruce of CPO 1 in Cedar Mill: www.cedarmill.org/news/UrbanNeeds/

Step 2: Sign the Letter
Join CPO 1, CPO 7, Washington County CCI and THPRD - ADD YOUR VOICE to your FUTURE

Partnership + Action = True Progress

We cannot do this project without a strong partnership between A City By Choice (aka YOU!), Beaverton and the Washington County's Board of Commissioners.
 
We need grant acquisition support, information and possible policy updates from each entity to educate and inform our neighbors about all the options and then empower us to choose! The project is estimated to cost ~$245,000.
 

A City By Choice, PO Box 91204, Portland, OR 97291