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Tigard MADE (Maintain, Advance, & Diversify Employment)
Tigard MADE was a long range planning project that looked at our employment lands — where we work, play, and eat — and asked what can we do better?
The project updated Tigard’s Development Code – which sets the regulations for where and how things can be built – with a focus on encouraging job density and economic mobility, climate resilience and carbon responsibility, and connectivity and community. Here are some of the things the project accomplished with its updates:
- Updated Tigard’s Economic Opportunities Analysis
Completed an Economic Opportunities Analysis that projected employment growth and land capacity for Tigard over the next 20 years and recommended policies to address Tigard’s land constraint.
- Expanded and modernized allowed uses
Allowed for more area-wide mixed-use development that encourages greater job density and better accommodates alternative forms of transportation, like biking and public transit.
- Built flexibility into development standards
The project identified and removed land use regulations that acted as barriers to entry for small business owners seeking to open and operate businesses in Tigard.
- Consolidated zones
The project refined definitions, boundaries, and allowed uses in each commercial, industrial, and mixed-use zone to maximize clarity and encourage development that is the best fit for each part of the city.
After nearly four years of outreach, research, and coordination with local and regional partners, the MADE project was adopted by Tigard City Council on April 23, 2024.
Adopted ordinances and related materials can be found here. Code changes become effective on May 23, 2024 but it may take some time for the online Development Code to be updated. In the meantime, please contact Tigard Planner on Duty at tigardplanneronduty@tigard-or.gov for questions related to how code changes might impact your property, business, or development proposal.
The code also included updates for the Washington Square Regional Center Plan District. For more information on the established policy framework that guided the code-writing effort, please visit www.tigard-or.gov/thesquare.
Related Materials
Adopted Economic Opportunities Analysis