Location: Open Space Event Studio, 220 NE Lafayette Ave, Bend

No pre-registration required. Admission is free, but space is limited. Doors open at 6:30 and program begins at 7. A no-host bar will be available.

Event descriptioN

With Jeff Mapes, OPB & Robert Liberty, Formerly of 1000 Friends of Oregon

A LECTURE BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUILDING A BETTER BEND

Ever wonder what keeps Oregon wild, our farmland working, and our cities pulsing with life? Oregon regulates growth very differently and has for 50 years. In other states, farms and forests get chewed up by endless subdivisions and sprawl that goes on for miles—but Oregon is different and special. Why? 

50 years ago, Oregon leaders looked around and saw sprawl threatening our beautiful state and enacted a series of bold new laws. Come hear the bruising (and sometimes hilarious) battles that got us to today, ongoing challenges with implementing a revolutionary planning system, and how our state is gearing up to tackle a fresh new set of challenges.

Join political journalist veteran Jeff Mapes who recently launched a six-part podcast exploring the history of Oregon's land use policies, and attorney Robert Liberty who has more than four decades of experience with the implementation, improvement, enforcement and politics of Oregon's land use planning program.