Oregon is among the very few states, and the Portland area, of the even fewer major metro areas, that have for decades effectively fought back the forces of development and resisted converting ever more parcels of urban land for re-zoning to industrial and commercial use, over-employed in other places under the banner of job creation and the promise of wider economic prosperity. Since the 1970s, growth in the Portland area has been confined within carefully crafted boundaries, the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB), outside of which, urban growth was not allowed to occur.
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