Infill Design “Toolkit” Released by Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
New resource for improving the design of infill development now available
Portlanders have a new tool to help improve the design of infill development in their neighborhoods.
Published by the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, “The Infill Design Toolkit: A guide to integrating infill development into Portland’s neighborhoods” serves as a resource for community members; builders, designers, neighbors and others – all who are involved in designing, building or participating in dialogue about the new development that continues to shape the form of Portland’s neighborhoods.
For east Portland neighbors concerned about the design of infill development, the toolkit provides ideas for how higher density infill development can be designed to respect neighborhood characteristics and minimize privacy impacts.
For builders, the various components of the toolkit serve as problem-solving tools, highlighting strategies for achieving context-sensitive design and ways of overcoming some of the unique design challenges of development on small sites.
The toolkit focuses on medium-density residential development (such as rowhouses, plexes, courtyard housing, and low-rise multifamily development) in established neighborhood areas.
The Infill Design Toolkit is an outcome of Portland’s Infill Design Project, which has pursued a broad range of innovative strategies focused on improving the design of infill development.
This project has emphasized non-regulatory approaches that place a premium on collaborative problem solving between builders, designers, community members and the City.
The toolkit is part of this broader strategy, which previously resulted in an innovative new street type mixing community space and cars, “approvable” housing prototypes, and the recent Portland Courtyard Housing Design Competition.
The “Infill Design Toolkit: A guide to integrating infill development into Portland’s neighborhoods” can be accessed from the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability website here
Printed copies are also available for purchase. For more information, contact Bill Cunningham, project manager, at 503-823-4203 or bcunningham@ci.portland.or.us.
