Summer Streets Activation Update - 2021 Street Plaza Enhancement Program - Urban Design Workshop - City of Portland, Oregon
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Summer Streets Activation Update
2021 Street Plaza Enhancement Program
Urban Design Workshop
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 1
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Looking Back at 2020
PBOT issued 1184 Healthy Businesses Permits and 181 pickup/drop-off zones, free of charge.
Additionally, PBOT :
• Provided over $40,000 in free traffic control devices to Black, Indigenous, and Person of
Color (BIPOC) owned businesses.
• Delivered 20 free outdoor dining plaza kits (valued at $2,000 each) to BIPOC businesses.
• Distributed $10,000 worth of free 5-minute pickup/drop-off signs.
• Given $1,100 of free and discounted paint supplies for street painting projects at Healthy
Businesses installations.
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Parking Plazas Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 7
Side Street Plaza Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 8
What if, instead of
Streets like this
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We had
Streets for Community
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We had
Streets for Play
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We had
Streets for Family
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We had
Streets Centering Equity
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 14 14Streets are our
city’s largest
public space.
Typically, they
make up 40% of
our land.
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 15This is unique in the US.
Portland’s street grid is
more compact than any
other big city.
What this means is we
have streets to spare
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 16 16As Portland looks toward the Summer of 2021, PBOT
wants to support its Healthy Businesses permit
program to make existing and new street plazas and
seating areas even more welcoming and inclusive of
public and community activity across the city.
Grants and supplies may be available for
developing, enhancing, and activating your
neighborhood plaza this summer.
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 17Precedent - Dream Street Plaza, Fall 2020
• Side Street Plaza off
NE MLK JR Blvd
• 20+ BIPOC Vendors
over 5 weekend events
• Black-Centered Public Space in
historic Albina.
• Partnership with Soul District
Business Association, greenHAUS
Gallery, Old Town Brewing, and
Champions Barbershop
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Takeaways from Dream Street Plaza
• Beyond permitting: people,
relationships & partnerships are
central to activation.
• Resources can be a catalyst, but
ongoing maintenance &
stewardship is essential.
• Smaller streets with active
frontages make great plaza
environments.
• Streets are flexible, dynamic
public spaces that can support a
wide range of uses and purposes.
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 21Healthy Business Plazas
Today’s Healthy Business
plazas create the
Private
Business Uses
foundation for community
gathering and use, with an
emphasis on private use.
How can we welcome
the public into these
Traffic spaces?
Barriers
Under used
opportunity
space
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 24Enhanced Plaza Upgrades
Community
Potential
Use Space Enhancements
• Street painting
Private
Business Uses • Wayfinding
• Welcome signage
Enhanced
Decoration • Public seating
Expanded • Planter barriers
Planter Public Seating
Barriers • Decorative planters
Large Scale
Street
Painting
Potted Trees
(BES) • Community activation
Welcome
Signage
Wayfinding
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 25A range of offerings:
Offering Eligibility Partnership Expectations
Street Art Feed painting volunteers.
Through partnership with City Repair, paint the street surface in your Healthy Business Open offer to all H.B.
permit area. This includes parking lane permits. permit types.
Street Art + Wayfinding By invitation to H.B.
Feed painting volunteers. Help with
street mural painting
Street art paint, supplies and service above, plus banners welcoming people to your street plazas.
plaza, street stickers and A-frames pointing people to the plaza.
Up to 20 sites.
Planters + Public Seating By invitation to H.B. Partners must sign up as stewards of the
public space to keep planters healthy,
Planter boxes and plantings for use as traffic barriers and for site aesthetics, and street plazas. keep street furniture arranged and look
public seating for public community use. Up to 10 sites. after the site day to day.
Curation + Activation Funding By direct sponsorship Partners would be expected to regularly
bring community uses into the plaza site
Funding to support regular ongoing activation of the plaza site. This may include agreement. through weekly activities. Must provide
community uses, play areas, musicians, artists, markets, and performances, or other Up to 10 sites. brief activation plan, event
ideas. Funding is intended to support site management, activation supplies, and documentation, photos and reporting on
payments to activation partners. site activation.
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 26Long Term:
Public Space Creation and
Activation Program
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 32 32Commissioner Interest • Commissioner Hardesty is interested in “Exploring, identifying and executing on closing some roadways permanently to car traffic,” BikePortland, Jan. 12, 2021 • "I would love … to have lots of downtown be car-free," said Hardesty. "So that people are walking around and exploring and appreciating all that's beautiful about Downtown Portland.“ KATU News, February 27, 2021 Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 33 33
How Can Vibrant Public Spaces
Serve As Place Based “Economic Gardens”
For Commercial District Recovery?
Local Entrepreneurs growing the economy from within
• Partnerships with community-based organizations, BIPOC-owned businesses
• Intentional space for microenterprise
• Integration of art and design elements that create welcoming and safe
spaces for BIPOC Portlanders
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 34 34Long Term Programmatic Considerations
Persistent barriers exist related to management and maintenance of
these spaces.
• Governance & stewardship model for managing plaza uses and
neighbor relations
• Programming of space with community partners
• Permitting to encourage enhanced activation
• Infrastructure implementation for utilities.
• Funding for implementation and maintenance
• Parking supply impacts and management
• Revenue implications of right-of-way reuse on parking revenue
• Houseless services partner collaboration
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 41Beyond the pilot:
Summer Fall 21 Winter Spring 22 Summer Fall 2022
2-21 21/22 22
Pilot 1 (Plazas)
Pilot Evaluation
Develop Pilot 2
Pilot 2 (Plaza + multi-block activations)
Street Activation Plan
Implementation
Council: Pilot 2 commitment Council: Street Activation
and mid-point street Plan adoption
activation update
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 42 42ARP Request: Healthy Business and Vibrant Public Plazas Program
Public spaces as “Economic Gardens” for Commercial District Recovery.
• Extend/expand the direct business relief offered by PBOT’s restaurant permit program -
including an ongoing public plaza creation and activation initiative.
• Plaza spaces and other car free streets will invite businesses and healthy outdoor
activity to revitalize and stabilize commercial districts including the central city.
• Healthy Business permittees are “anchor tenants” for spaces where people can gather
for cultural events and support small businesses. 2022
2023
• Prioritize underserved communities and includes financial support for small business
and community organizations.
2021
• Deployment of plaza materials, funding for community group activation partnerships
• Strategy for the ongoing stewardship of public spaces.
2020
Funding Range: $5-10 million (2 years)
Portlandoregon.gov/transportation 43 43We want your
help with ideas
and inspiration
to shape what
is possible.
Together, we will continue to
collaborate, experiment, and Art.Pearce@Portlandoregon.gov
learn by doing.
(GlobalDesigningCities.org)
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