Ready for 100,000 more? Their target cities aren't

Ready for 100,000 more? Their target cities aren't: "Ready for 100,000 more? Their target cities aren't
Infrastructure - The $4 billion tab for growth east of Portland poses hard choices and regional consequences
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• What does 100,000

• Growth solutions
Sunday, December 04, 2005
LAURA OPPENHEIMER

and ROBIN FRANZEN

Rural communities on Portland's eastern fringes are bracing for the biggest suburban explosion in Oregon history -- if we find a way to pay for it.

That's a big if.
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We need $4 billion for streets, sewers and other trappings of daily life to build the next generation of suburbs: Happy Valley, Pleasant Valley, Damascus and Springwater."