City of Oregon City
Jude Thaddaeus, MURP, is an experienced urban planner currently serving as an Assistant Planner for the City of Oregon City since July 2022. Prior to this role, Jude worked as a Community Investment Plan Intern at Albina Vision Trust from July 2020 to June 2021, where research methodology for historical wealth loss was developed and findings were reported to aid the Community Investment Plan process. Jude holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning with a focus on Transportation Planning from Portland State University, earned from September 2019 to June 2021.
City of Oregon City
The City of Oregon City is dedicated to providing exceptional services to its citizens as well as a welcoming experience to its visitors. Oregon City offers an outstanding quality of life, residents that truly care about their community and businesses that want to make a difference. The Community Historic Oregon City is perched on the bluffs overlooking thundering Willamette Falls and situated in the lush green valley at the confluence of the Willamette and Clackamas rivers. Oregon City has a long-standing reputation for its livability and growing economic climate. Known as “The City at the End of the Oregon Trail,” Oregon City has easy access to all the amenities of the Portland metropolitan area while maintaining the quality of small-town life. It is ideally located less than 30 minutes from downtown Portland and the Portland International Airport. The County seat of Clackamas County, Oregon City was the original capital city of the Oregon Territory. The city (population 34,610) occupies a territory of approximately 9.2 square miles. Interstate 205 and State Highways 99E and 213 provide links to Portland, Salem, Canby, and Southwest Clackamas County. Manufacturing has been the historic economic mainstay of Oregon City. However, the city is moving to a more widely diversified business community. The support of city and county government continues to draw a growing number of businesses to Oregon City. More than 900 firms are located within the city limits and these firms employ