The Department of Land Conservation and Development's Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities rulemaking significantly updated Oregon’s administrative rules on housing and transportation planning within Oregon’s eight metropolitan areas.
The rules:
- Expand requirements for scenario planning to meet the state's greenhouse gas reduction targets
- Reduce some transportation planning requirements and include other new and expanded requirements for preparing local Transportation System Plans
- Require cities and counties to reform parking regulations
- Require cities to identify climate-friendly areas that allow for the development of compact, mixed-use neighborhoods served with high quality walking, bicycling and transit infrastructure and services
ODOT, in partnership with DLCD, will be supporting communities with implementation efforts. The ODOT Statewide Planning Unit, Transportation Planning & Analysis Unit (TPAU) and the Climate Office will each support CFEC implementation through specific and coordinated initiatives. Project information and updates for each of these initiatives is included below.
This webpage will be updated throughout the CFEC implementation process, providing informational updates, materials and notices of stakeholder engagement opportunities. To stay informed, subscribe to our
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Building Transportation Options into Transportation Plans
Curious about how transportation options connect to local transportation planning? ODOT's CFEC and Transportation Options programs are hosting a webinar highlighting how the updated rules boost opportunities to integrate TO into local planning efforts. You'll learn about the Transportation System Plan (TSP) process, transportation options requirements for local TSPs, and how TO providers can engage. We'll have plenty of time for questions and discussion.
Webinar details and meeting link
2-3 pm, Wednesday, January 22nd
Use this link to join the webinar via Zoom
Meeting ID: 834 0357 2278
Passcode: 682241
CFEC Program Update - Focus on Funding your TSP
Join us for updates on CFEC implementation efforts followed by a more in-depth conversation about funding local transportation system plans. This virtual meeting will kick off with updates on ODOT implementation efforts including scenario planning, the multimodal inventory project and updates to technical guidance. We will then focus on technical and funding resources available to support local TSP development.
Webinar details and meeting link
10-11 am, Wednesday, March 5th Time, day, date
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Meeting ID: 859 4237 9157
Passcode: 415709
CFEC Implementation Schedule
Download a PDF of the schedule.
View draft updates now on the
TSP Guidelines webpage!
The TSP Guidelines are a web-based resource to assist local jurisdictions in long-range transportation system planning. The guidelines outline the 'what', 'when', 'why' and 'how' of updating a TSP based on
Oregon's Transportation Planning Rule and provide best practices, examples and additional resources. The TSP Guidelines are being updated to outline new requirements for jurisdictions within metropolitan areas.
The project kicked off in February 2023 and is nearing completion in July 2024. Updates have been informed by an Advisory Committee including representatives from cities, counties, consultants, and advocacy, as well as the land use and public health sectors. Key updates to reflect the updated rules include:
- A discussion of the Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities program
- Distinguishing requirements for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas
- Updated guidance for community engagement and equity analysis
- New guidance for enhanced review for capacity expanding projects
- New guidance on the performance-based approach outlined in the updated rules
- Updated guidance for modal inventories and analysis
- Discussion of a new requirement for a transportation options section
- Discussion of a new requirement for a financially-constrained project list
Advisory Committee
The purpose of the Transportation Planning Rules Modeling and Analysis Guides Update is to provide modeling and transportation analysis procedure guidance for ODOT and local jurisdiction development of transportation system plans based on the updated rules. ODOT's partner agency, the Department of Land Conservation and Development and DLCD's Commission have adopted new rules for transportation planning, housing planning, and metropolitan climate change targets for metropolitan areas and larger cities within MPO areas. These new rules make significant changes to the parameters for transportation and land use planning, particularly in metropolitan areas, and therefore ODOT's transportation planning, analysis, and modeling guidance requires updates to reflect the new rules.
Schedule and Key Milestones
Throughout 2023 and 2024, this project will conduct and document several tasks through a series of technical memoranda:
- Review the new and revised OARs in Division 660-012 (Transportation Planning) and Division 660-044 (Metropolitan Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets).
- Review existing modeling and analysis procedures documents and identify the areas to be updated to meet the needs of the new rules.
- Review existing MPO travel demand models and capabilities to meet the requirements of the new rules.
- Develop climate-friendly area (CFA) modeling guidance (moving Comprehensive Plan changes into model inputs).
- Conduct CFA modeling case studies.
- Develop new performance targets (long range planning) and performance standards (project specific) application guidance.
The first key milestone will be to establish draft modeling and analysis guidance for CFA and performance targets/standards by the end of 2023. This will include technical memoranda that guide the modeling and analytical procedures but will not yet include Analysis Procedures Manual (APM) or other document updates at this time.
The second key milestone will be to complete updates to the APM and related guidance documents by May 2024.
This project is managed by a collaborative team including ODOT's Transportation Planning and Analysis Unit and Climate Office staff and will engage stakeholders who use these tools most. This includes a Working Group from the Oregon Modeling Statewide Collaborative, the Analysis Procedures Manual User's Group and a Technical Advisory Committee including representatives from cities, counties, consultants and ODOT.
Meeting Summaries
Technical Advisory Committee Meeting 1 Summary
Technical Advisory Committee Meeting 2 Summary
Technical Advisory Committee Meeting 3 Summary
Technical Advisory Committee Meeting 4 Summary
Analysis Procedures Manual Users Group Meeting 1 Summary
Analysis Procedures Manual Users Group Meeting 2 Summary
Analysis Procedures Manual Users Group Meeting 3 Summary
Analysis Procedures Manual Users Group Meeting 4 Summary
OMSC Working Group Meeting 1 Summary
OMSC Working Group Meeting 2 Summary
OMSC Working Group Meeting 3 Summary
OMSC Working Group Meeting 4 Summary
OMSC Working Group Meeting 5 Summary
Deliverables
Technical Memo 1 - Oregon Administrative Rules Review
Technical Memo 2 - Modeling and Analysis Procedures Document Review and Summary
Technical Memo 3 - Summary and Context of Other Planning Efforts
Technical Memo 4 - Model and Document Review
Technical Memo 5 - CFEC Guidance Framework
Technical Memo 8 - Prior Performance Measures Project Review
Technical Memo 9 - Performance Standards Framework
More Information
Zachary Horowitz, Project Manager
The ODOT Climate Office is laying the groundwork for greenhouse gas reduction target-setting in metropolitan areas. The purpose is to set Oregon’s metropolitan areas on a path to achieving their regional greenhouse gas targets, as well as establish performance measures for reporting progress on that path.
Greenhouse Gas Performance Targets
As part of the Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities program, local governments in Oregon’s metropolitan areas that do not have an approved land use and transportation scenario plan are required to track progress on actions taken to meet the state’s greenhouse gas reduction targets.
ODOT will assist impacted jurisdictions in the metropolitan areas of Albany, Bend, Corvallis, Grants Pass, and Rogue Valley to develop a methodology, baseline information, and reporting for the required CFEC performance measures and targets. This includes coordinating the with cities and counties in setting targets, developing the CFEC performance measures, and documentation for reporting requirements.
Scenario Planning
ODOT is supporting communities in Salem, Keizer and Marion County to develop a preferred regional scenario that meets the established greenhouse gas reduction target and a scenario planning report that details the policy actions and programs that the jurisdictions expect to undertake to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, these jurisdiction will develop performance measures and future year performance targets to track progress towards the preferred scenario and the greenhouse gas emissions reduction target. ODOT is also supporting communities in the Eugene-Springfield region to develop performance measures and future year performance targets to track progress towards the region’s preferred scenario and the greenhouse gas emissions reduction target. Metro has already completed the Scenario Planning requirement with adoption of the
Climate Smart Strategy in 2014 and will be reporting on implementation on behalf of the Portland area to meet the CFEC reporting the requirements.
This project will produce an inventory of multimodal infrastructure to support local transportation system planning aligned with the updated TPR. This project will build off existing datasets and use innovative computer-based methods to compile, generate and integrate infrastructure inventory data for pedestrian, bicycle, transit and vehicular travel within the urban growth boundaries of cities within MPO areas. The goal is to provide jurisdictions with a locally-owned initial dataset and collaboratively work to define what longer-term data management solutions could look like.
Two committees will advise the project management team as the project moves forward. These include a Multimodal Inventory Steering Committee (MISC), made up of ODOT staff with expertise in infrastructure data applications and management, and a Statewide Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), made up of planning, public works, and spatial data professionals from partner agencies across Oregon. As of mid-2024, the project team is developing draft standards and procedures for data collection and processing and has begun outreach to local agencies to better understand existing data resources and structures.
Engagement of data owners and users will be key to the success of this project as the project team will be looking to access existing datasets as a starting point, coordinate with local agencies on how to build out the consistent TPR-compliant dataset, and ultimately put this initial dataset on a sustainable and usable path for the longer term. The project team is working with several pilot communities to test and refine the project’s approach to data collection and processing. This project will continue through 2026.
More Information
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Frequently Asked Questions
Project Overview Slidedeck
Multimodal Inventory - Jurisdiction Cohort Process and
Schedule
Project Outreach
Virtual Briefing, July 23, 2024
Presentation slides
Webinar recording
Agenda
ODOT is developing a new Transportation System Plan (TSP) Funding Program to support local compliance with the updated Transportation Planning Rules. Recognizing that available funding is limited, jurisdictions with a statutory requirement to update TSPs before 2030 will be prioritized for funding. This includes jurisdictions with populations over 10,000 outside of the Portland Metro area. In collaboration with impacted agencies, ODOT staff will program eligible jurisdictions for funding, largely between 2024 and 2029.
Separately, ODOT and DLCD staff are reaching out to cities that do not have a deadline in rule to update their TSP before 2030. Staff are scheduling conversations to answer questions, support exemption requests, discuss community planning needs and talk through alternative funding sources. As part of this, ODOT will conduct TSP assessments to identify needed updates.
2023 TSP Funding Program Webinar Slides
Program Update Webinar recording – use passcode: 9vfrmt$?
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