“Three years ago, the Metro Council took a look around greater Portland and saw two things: Thousands of acres of vacant, developable land, and thousands of units of apartments under construction in Portland.
That look, combined an analysis by experts and computers, showed that the region had enough land within its urban growth boundary to handle 20 years of growth.”

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