Speak up or sprawl out: “Missing middle” housing proposal hits the planning commission tonight

The “safety in numbers” phenomenon works in housing too.
(Photo: Jonathan Maus)
This is a guest post by Michael Andersen, BikePortland’s news editor from 2013 to 2016. He’s a writer for 1000 Friends of Oregon’s pro-housing campaign Portland for Everyone.
There are two ways for more Portlanders to live in bikeable neighborhoods.
One way is to add good bike infrastructure to neighborhoods without it. The other way is to let more people live in neighborhoods that have it already. Portland should be doing both.[Read more…]