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Metro, the elected regional government of the Portland area, is encouraging sustainable land use for future population growth through Making the Greatest Place. In 2005, Metro forecast that the Portland metropolitan region would grow by 600,000 people by 2030. To prepare for this growth, Metro initiated Making the Greatest Place, a comprehensive policy and investment effort, to direct growth toward central development and employment areas and transportation corridors while protecting farms and forestland. Transportation components include multimodal plans for regional transportation and Metro's Active Transportation partnership. Land use and development elements include identifying urban and rural reserves for future development or preservation and Metro's transit-oriented development program. This approach has helped facilitate increased travel choices: the average Portland resident drives four fewer miles per day than residents of other comparable U.S cities. Together, the programs and policies created by Making the Greatest Place are helping Portland's compact neighborhoods thrive and reducing the need to expand the region's urban growth boundary.
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