Vision: Portland is one of the most globally competitive, healthy and equitable cities in the world.

• Do you agree that this vision should guide PDC and its partners over the next 5 years? - 1 - Strongly disagree

Goal: the goal of this strategy is to harness and expand PDC's tools for job creation, place-making, and economic opportunity to achieve widely shared prosperity among all resident of Portland.

• Do you agree that this goal should drive the work of PDC and our partners over the next 5 years? - 1 - Strongly disagree

The following are the 5 main objectives of the Plan. Let us know how important each objective is to you:

• Create healthy, complete neighborhoods throughout Portland - 1 - Not important
• Increase access to high quality employment for Portland residents - 5 - Very important
• Foster wealth creation within communities of color and low income neighborhoods - 4
• Form 21st century civic networks, institutions and partnerships - 1 - Not important
• Operate an equitable, innovative and financially sustainable agency - 5 - Very important

What do you like about the Plan?

I like that the plan suggests that PDC will reach out to and work with Neighborhood Associations and Business Districts. Those organizations need PDC direct financial support. However, the Main Street network currently serves to totally undermine that objective. Neighborhoods that were encumbered with main street programs have lagged far behind as a direct result.

Does anything in the Plan need greater emphasis? Please explain.

The ideas about 'communities of color' are like something out of the late 1800's. The race concept was long ago scientifically proven to be fallacious, ask an anthropologist. As a person of mixed ethnicity, I find it strange and also frightening that the Development Commission maintains beliefs in 'races of humans' and 'skin color as a racial indicator' as core guiding principals.

What is missing from the Plan? Please share your advice:

Section 4.3 Discusses a bunch of feel good talking points but, says nothing of how those goals would be pursued, let alone achieved. I own a business in a URA and we have the grave misfortune of having the last of the main street programs in our neighborhood. MS has done nothing to improve life in our neighborhood and has caused tremendous damage to the urban renewal process. The program in its 5 short years has lost it's 501(c)3 non-profit status and had to register as a church, misled community donors, wasted over a million dollars worth of community and public funds, created a hostile and divisive business environment, gone through 5 presidents (each supposedly holding three year terms), gone through three directors, generally lost the faith of our community and has caused business owners and residents to seriously question the need for the commission itself. Had I known, what I know about PDC and main street, when I was looking to open a business I would not have opened one in a URA with a main street program!

Is there anything else you would like to share?

Urban renewal is broken in our city. Our residents and businesses desperately need the support and financing required to renew marginalized and economically disenfranchised areas. However it is my opinion that the PDC may no longer be the right way to address renewal. I believe that the TIF money and PDC's budget should be returned to the general fund. The money should be used to create an agency that can work directly with the citizens, neighborhood associations, business persons and business associations. Until we renew the urban renewal process I fear that PDC leadership will continue to double down on poorly conceived and poorly executed programs like the ONI main street network.

OPTIONAL: Have you worked with PDC in the past? (check all that apply)

• Participated in public input process or advisory committee