Every five years the city reviews its land use planning and determines if there is enough industrial land to meet a state mandate requiring the city to have sufficient industrial land for the next twenty years. This process creates what's known as an Economic Opportunities Analysis (or EOA), which until recently few people in Portland had heard of, But five years ago Bob Sallinger started raising awareness about this process and the need to change it from something that happened behind closed doors, with giant multinational industrial interests, to a process that engages the true breadth of the community, including social and environmental justice organizations.
On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Micah Mescal with the Bird Alliance of Oregon about the EOA process currently underway. We'll talk about how things have changed in the past five years, and yet how they haven't.