Big day at City Hall affects pedicabs, taxi safety and backyard homes
Commissioner Amanda Fritz played a key role in all three votes.
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Commissioner Amanda Fritz played a key role in all three votes.
For decades, there’s been one way to build a 15-foot-tall structure up to the edge property lines: put a car in it.
When it comes to cars, accessory units in backyards and basements are nearly as low-impact as big apartment buildings next to bus lines.
In some central Portland neighborhoods, more than one in 10 new dwellings is now an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU.