The Planning Process & the Parable of the Boiled Frog
by Mark D. Miles

  • this article is currently only available by mail as part of PCJ Issue #13
    Planning commissioner Mark Miles on how continued growth and development brings to mind the parable of the boiled frog.

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    ... Like the frog in the parable, the process of intuitively planning for and facilitating growth has left many planning agencies relatively motionless while growth bubbles around them. ...

    I live in Gresham, a city with a population of about 70,000 located in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. In recent years, we have had several opportunities to realize that the water is heating around us, and that now is the opportunity to move while we still can.

    ... As we try to visualize how our region will look and function years from now, innovation is clearly called for because the enlightened approaches of today will be the standards by which our society of tomorrow will be judged ...