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Councilor Robert Liberty
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Robert Liberty represents District 6, which includes portions of Northeast, Southeast and Southwest Portland.
Robert Liberty, a resident of the Richmond neighborhood in Portland, was elected to the Metro Council in November 2004, and re-elected in 2008 for a second term.
Responsibilities and initiatives
His interests as Metro Councilor include promoting redevelopment in town centers and along main streets, increasing transportation and housing choices, conserving natural areas inside and outside the urban growth boundary, and giving citizens a stronger role in the regional planning decisions affecting our future.
Councilor Liberty serves as a Metro Council liaison to the Metro Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC), and to the Transit Oriented Development Steering Committee, and the Oregon Zoo Foundation Board. He also serves on TriMet's Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Steering Committee, and Multnomah County's Sellwood Bridge Policy Advisory Group. Along with Councilor Collette, he serves as a lead councilor on the Investing in Our Communities project to find ways to accommodate expected growth and make our communities livable. He was co-chair of the Housing Choice Task Force in 2005-06 and initiated Metro's 2006 Economic Development and 2007 Transportation Speaker Series.
Liberty also developed a proposal to use increases in value on lands added to the urban growth boundary in the future to generate infrastructure funds to implement Metro's 2040 and protect farmland.
Work and community experience
Liberty is an attorney with 27 years experience in land use planning issues, including serving as a staff attorney and Executive Director for 1000 Friends of Oregon, the nation's oldest statewide Smart Growth advocacy organization. During that time, he served as President and an officer for the Growth Management Leadership Alliance, an association of US and Canadian Smart Growth advocacy groups.
Liberty also has experience as a land use hearings officer for Multnomah County, as an attorney in private practice representing citizens and nonprofit groups in land use proceedings and as Senior Counsel of U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
Education
Liberty has received a BA in Political Science from the University of Oregon Honors College, an MA in Modern History from Oxford University and a JD from Harvard Law School. He was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design during the 2002-03 year.
An avid backpacker and committed bicycle commuter, Liberty enjoys spending time outdoors.
Need assistance?
Metro Councilor Robert Liberty
503-797-1552 | 503-797-1793 fax
robert.liberty@oregonmetro.gov
or
Ina Zucker, policy coordinator
503-797-1543
ina.zucker@oregonmetro.gov
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South Corridor Phase II: Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Project
Learn about the plans to construct a MAX line serving communities in North Clackamas County, Southeast Portland and South Waterfront.
Lake Oswego to Portland Transit Project
Learn about efforts to develop a transit project that meets future travel demand between Lake Oswego and Portland, supports local and regional land use plans, and garners public acceptance and community support.
Oregon Zoo
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The Oregon Zoo
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