Challenge
As Oregon jurisdictions began responding to the updated Climate Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC) requirements, the City of Sherwood’s Transportation System Plan (TSP) became the first fully CFEC-compliant city TSP Kittelson worked on. Earlier efforts, including the City of Milwaukie’s TSP update, helped establish an initial understanding of how the new rules could be interpreted and incorporated into an active planning process. The Sherwood project built on those lessons and advanced them further within a fully compliant framework.
Solution
Kittelson worked closely with the City of Sherwood, Metro, and ODOT throughout the planning process to develop a fully compliant TSP that reflected both the updated CFEC requirements and the City’s local priorities. The project team built upon technical work, coordination strategies, and lessons learned from earlier projects, including the Milwaukie TSP update.
This project was self-funding the effort and moved forward more quickly than some of the state level guidance development processes. This created a planning environment where agencies, consultants, and partner organizations were often learning alongside one another and looking to peer projects for examples of how to approach implementation. Together, the team worked through evolving guidance, shared technical understanding, and developed approaches tailored to Sherwood’s specific transportation context and long-term planning needs.
The Outcome
Building on Early CFEC Lessons Through Sherwood’s TSP Update
The Sherwood TSP represented an important step toward applying the updated CFEC requirements within a fully compliant city transportation system plan. It also highlighted how CFEC implementation can vary depending on a community’s context.
While Milwaukie’s transportation network is more built out and closely connected to the City of Portland, with a stronger existing emphasis on bicycle, pedestrian, and transit travel, Sherwood faces different conditions as a growing and more car-dependent community. As a result, the planning process required a more balanced approach that considered both multimodal goals and the realities of existing travel patterns and future growth.
