Flat per vehicle registration fees charge lower rates to wealthier households with more road damaging vehicles The prospect of shifting from using a combination of vehicle registration fees, fuel taxes and general revenues to pay for roads, to a system…
What City Observatory did this week 1.Interim report card on Portland’s Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance: An Incomplete. Portland’s inclusionary zoning requirements have been in effect for six months. While the ordinance prompted a land rush of development applications filed under the…
Peak hour car commuters have incomes almost double those who travel by transit, bike and foot The Oregon Legislature has directed the state’s department of transportation to come up with a value pricing system for interstate freeways in the Portland…
Developers stampeded to get grandfathered before new requirements took hold, will the pipeline run dry? In December, Portland’s City Council adopted one of the nation’s most sweeping inclusionary zoning requirements. Most new multifamily housing projects will have to set aside…
What City Observatory did this week 1. What price autonomous vehicles? It’s easy to obsess about the cool technological details of autonomous vehicles: their sophisticated computers, LIDAR systems, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication. But for economists, the big variable determining their impact…