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Council agenda/Apr 2, 2025
Meeting record

Portland City Council

What this body considered, what happened to each item, and how the posted actions connect to the full public record.

Official agenda Follow this body
Date and timeWednesday, April 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
PlaceCity Hall, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor – 1221 SW Fourth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204
Agenda statusRecessedChecked Sep 4, 7:02 AM
Agenda and outcomes

What happened

16 items

  1. 1
    Other City business · Agenda approval

    Agenda approval

    Meeting procedure: Council approves the meeting agenda and may change its order. This does not approve the proposals listed below.

    Approved
  2. 2
    Other City business · Public communications

    Public Comment

    Official document Matter guide
    Placed On File
  3. 9:45 am
    Passed As Amended
  4. 4
    Other City business · Time certain

    Agenda item

    No posted outcome
  5. 5
    Placed On File
  6. 6
    Passed
  7. 7
    Passed
  8. 8
    Passed
  9. 9
    Passed
  10. 10
    Passed
  11. 11
    Passed
  12. 12
    Passed
  13. 13
    Passed
  14. 14
    Passed
  15. 15
    Adopted As Amended
  16. 16
    Continued
Auditable history

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Procedural record

Motions and amendments

4 recorded

Main

Motion to add "including identification of impediments such as Zoning Code, permitting process, and financing gaps" to the last Resolved statement: Moved by Green and seconded by Zimmerman. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)

Moved by Mitch Green · seconded by Eric Zimmerman
Amendment

Motion to amend the Resolution to add two Whereas statements at the end and to add a new Section 6 to the second Resolved statement: Whereas the 2022 State of Housing in Portland report shows that in 2022 the average Latino and Native American families could not afford a 3-bedroom house in any neighborhood in Portland, and the average Black family could not afford a 1-bedroom home in any neighborhood in Portland; and Whereas the N/NE preference policy seeks to address many of these disparities and the city already has partners like the Albina Vision Trust poised to build 1000s of units under this preference policy, 6. analysis of pilot zones available for near-term implementation of social housing models at scale, including within the Albina Vision project area and other neighborhoods within the N/NE Preference Policy area: Moved by Pirtle-Guiney and seconded by Smith. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney

Moved by Elana Pirtle-Guiney · seconded by Loretta Smith
Main

Motion to end debate and call the question: Moved by Green and seconded by Novick. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)

Moved by Mitch Green · seconded by Steve Novick
Main

Motion to add an additional Whereas statement second to last: Whereas, based on 2020 U.S. Census data for Portland, the average Black household brings in about $3,000 in monthly income, Latino households earn $4,500, and Native American households earn nearly $5,000. In comparison to white Portland households who earn $6,400 on average each month. The report shows that white residents can afford a home in about one-third of Portland’s neighborhoods – mostly adjacent to the City’s eastern border: Moved by Smith and seconded by Green. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)

Moved by Loretta Smith · seconded by Mitch Green
Named record

Votes

4 recorded

Meeting-level actionRecorded

Motion to add "including identification of impediments such as Zoning Code, permitting process, and financing gaps" to the last Resolved statement: Moved by Green and…

See the named roll call
Angelita MorilloYesCandace AvalosYesDan RyanYesElana Pirtle-GuineyYesEric ZimmermanYesJamie DunphyYesLoretta SmithYesMitch GreenYesOlivia ClarkYesSameer KanalYesSteve NovickYesTiffany Koyama LaneYes
Meeting-level actionRecorded

Motion to amend the Resolution to add two Whereas statements at the end and to add a new Section 6 to the second Resolved statement: Whereas the 2022 State of Housing…

See the named roll call
Angelita MorilloYesCandace AvalosYesDan RyanYesElana Pirtle-GuineyYesEric ZimmermanYesJamie DunphyYesLoretta SmithYesMitch GreenYesOlivia ClarkYesSameer KanalYesSteve NovickYesTiffany Koyama LaneYes
Meeting-level actionRecorded

Motion to end debate and call the question: Moved by Green and seconded by Novick. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman,…

See the named roll call
Angelita MorilloYesCandace AvalosYesDan RyanYesElana Pirtle-GuineyYesEric ZimmermanYesJamie DunphyYesLoretta SmithYesMitch GreenYesOlivia ClarkYesSameer KanalYesSteve NovickYesTiffany Koyama LaneYes
Meeting-level actionRecorded

Motion to add an additional Whereas statement second to last: Whereas, based on 2020 U.S. Census data for Portland, the average Black household brings in about $3,000…

See the named roll call
Angelita MorilloYesCandace AvalosYesDan RyanYesElana Pirtle-GuineyYesEric ZimmermanYesJamie DunphyYesLoretta SmithYesMitch GreenYesOlivia ClarkYesSameer KanalYesSteve NovickYesTiffany Koyama LaneYes