FAQs

West Linn and the community are collaborating on Vision 43, a bold plan to revitalize the Highway 43 corridor focusing on enhancing transportation, ensuring safe crossings, promoting vibrant commerce, and establishing pedestrian networks. 

Objectives

✓Create a new community vision for the Highway 43 corridor

✓Engage community members and neighborhoods to help craft recommendations

✓Improve opportunities for walking and bicycling within and to the corridor

✓Create opportunities for more businesses, housing, and gathering places

✓Update City plans and policies to implement project goals and recommendations

Through public input and analysis, the City will reimagine Highway 43 to prioritize infrastructure improvements for all modes of travel and create a mix of housing, workplaces, shops, and gathering spaces accessible to people of all ages, incomes, and abilities.

Vision 43 is a land use framework that aims to improve walking and biking opportunities within the corridor and create opportunities for businesses, housing, and gathering places. The master plan connects and builds upon goals, policies, and planning from the Bolton and Robinwood Neighborhood Plans, the Highway 43 Concept Plan, the West Transportation Systems Plan, and the West Linn Comprehensive Plan.

The Vision 43 planning area encompasses Oregon Highway 43, stretching north from the I-205 interchange and including the land alongside the highway corridor to Lake Oswego. As the gateway to West Linn, Highway 43 is not only a crucial north/south transportation link in the Portland Metro Region but also functions as West Linn's primary thoroughfare and a shopping area for local community members.

Creating the Vision 43 Strategic Plan will take two years. Vision 43 kicked off in December 2023 and is expected to be completed in Fall 2025.

• Zoning changes to allow for a walkable mix of housing options, businesses, and places to eat, drink, and gather
• Transportation design improvements, including pedestrian crossings, streetscaping, landscaping strips, and lighting improvements
• Improvements in pedestrian and bicycle access and connectivity
• Identification of financing options to help fund redevelopment and transportation improvements in the corridor, such as an Urban Renewal District or Tax Increment Financing

Vision 43 current activities include: 

• Connecting with corridor neighborhood groups to identify specific issues and potential improvements
• Engaging in "pop-up" events around the City
• Forming the Vision 43 Interest Working Group and Technical Working Group
• Drafting a preliminary corridor vision and goals for community review based on input from interviews, surveys, events, and meetings

 Check the calendar to find the upcoming engagement opportunities and summaries of past events.

Get involved in Vision 43 to transform the corridor into a safer, more vibrant, and well-connected destination! The Vision 43 webpage is always open for you to comment, take the latest survey, map concerns or opportunities, ask questions, and stay updated.

Look out for pop-up feedback opportunities at stores, public places, and events, as well as listening sessions, online surveys, a community workshop, and City Council and Planning Commission meetings throughout the year leading up to the draft of the Vision 43 Strategic Plan. Project team members will be present at various community events, so keep an eye out and take the opportunity to engage with us.

While both projects reimagine critical areas in West Linn and meet at the I-205/Highway 43 Interchange, Vision 43 is focused on reimagining zoning along Highway 43 north of the I-205 Interchange. Vision 43 seeks to foster a sense of identity, community, and well-being and improve neighborhood connectivity, transit connections, and bicycle and pedestrian safety in this area.