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Proposed urban and rural reserves

Click on the map or follow the links below to learn about proposed urban and rural reserves in nine areas of the region. View detailed maps and descriptions and read about the considerations.

area 1 area 2 area 3 area 4 area 5 area 6 area 7 area 8 area 9 map of the Metro region and the nine landscapes

Click on area name to view details and take a survey.

area description
The region's eastern edge, from Troutdale to Sandy
The region's southeastern corner including Eagle Creek and the Clackamas River
From the Clackamas River to Beavercreek and Molalla
Includes lands east of Wilsonville and west of the Willamette River
From Sherwood and Wilsonville to the Yamhill and Marion county lines
South of Hillsboro, west of Beaverton
The region's western edge including Forest Grove, Cornelius and Banks
Hillsboro, North Plains and Helvetia
The Tualatin Mountains to Sauvie Island and Scappoose

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Reserves information
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reserves@oregonmetro.gov

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Urban and rural reserves

Find out about the unique collaborative process the region used to choose the best places for future urban growth. Learn how regional partners identified lands that won’t be urbanized for the next 50 years.

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interactive reserves map

Take a better look

View landscape details with an interactive map of the region. Pan and zoom to find your property or to see proposed urban and rural reserves in your area. Open the map

glossary

Defining the terms

Urban reserves are lands designated by Metro that lie outside the current urban growth boundary and are suitable for urban development for the next 40 to 50 years.

Rural reserves are lands designated by each county that lie outside the current urban growth boundary and are valuable agricultural and/or forestlands, or have important natural features like rivers, wetlands, buttes and floodplains. These areas will be off limits to urbanization for the next 40 to 50 years.

Foundation agricultural lands anchor the larger agricultural industry and are considered vital to its long-term viability.

Important agricultural lands are well suited to agricultural production and have the capacity to contribute to the commercial agricultural economy. Although they have potential to be foundation agricultural lands, they often are not used to their full potential.

Conflicted agricultural lands have excellent capability (soils and water) but their suitability for commercial agriculture is jeopardized by circumstances that disrupt the agricultural integrity of their surroundings and challenge their operations.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture in 2007 completed an assessment of the long term commercial viability of agricultural lands in the Portland metropolitan area. The hierarchy above was developed to describe levels of agricultural viability.

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