Here is The Actual Email From Measure 26-29's Author (we added the link to the definitions)	......	Here is What It Means
Mr. Karlock, The measure that the Metro council referred to the ballot, 26-29, contains a provision that prohibits Metro from increasing densities in inner and outer neighborhoods, as mapped and codified by cities and counties. By definition, corridors and main streets, as well as town centers, industrial lands and regional centers, are not inner or outer neighborhoods. I don't know if that answers your question. Please refer to the Metro website or contact Metro Counsel, Dan Cooper at 797-1528. Sincerely, Rex Burkholder Metro Councilor-District 5 600 NE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97232 503-797-1546 burkholderr@metro.dst.or.us www.metro-region.org > From: Jim Karlock <JKarlock@------------.com> > Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:25:38 -0800 > To: Rex Burkholder <burkholderr@metro.dst.or.us> > Subject: Re: Questions on Ballot Measure 26-29 > > At 11:46 AM 3/4/2002 , you wrote: >>  Measure 26-29 does prohibit Metro from taking action to >> increase densities in the 70% or so of the region that is zoned inner or >> outer neighborhoods. > > Thanks you for your answer, but does you measure prevent metro from > requiring an increase in density along "main streets", "corridors" and > "transit corridors" where THEY PASS THROUGH "Inner or Outer Neighborhoods"? > > Thank you > > Jim Karlock > > Return-Path: <burkholderr@metro.dst.or.us> Received: from gwmail.metro.dst.or.us (istanbul.metro-region.org [204.200.232.2])         by mailman.------------.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g24NeSrf073717         for <JKarlock@------------.com>; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.31.24]         (m-192-168-31-24 [192.168.31.24])         by gwmail.metro.dst.or.us; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 15:41:32 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.1.3108 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 15:47:41 -0800 Subject: Re: Questions on Ballot Measure 26-29 From: Rex Burkholder <burkholderr@metro.dst.or.us> To: Jim Karlock <JKarlock@------------.com> CC: Dan Cooper <cooperd@metro.dst.or.us> Message-ID: <B8A9479C.89C5%burkholderr@metro.dst.or.us> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20020304142144.00ce8580@mail.------------.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Status:		Measure 26-29's language protects areas "identified in the plan solely as Inner or Outer Neighborhoods." Here, the author of this measure tells that "corridors and main streets, as well as town centers, industrial lands and regional centers, are not inner or outer neighborhoods." "corridors" and "main streets" are just fancy names for our bigger streets, "town centers" and "regional centers" are towns like Gresham, and Hillsboro plus Gateway and Hollywood. All of these are not protected by this measure. And it is these areas that are getting most of the high density. A second Email exchange showed that the protection afforded to the Inner or Outer Neighborhoods is almost meaningless. Here is the first "answer" that I got.