PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) — An updated Portland odor code will go into effect about a year after a Vietnamese restaurant shut down due to smell complaints from a neighbor.
Portland City Council approved the new ordinance on Wednesday. Under the amended code, odor regulations no longer apply to companies “for which odor is an inherent part of their business model” — like restaurants, cafes and bakeries.
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The odor code was first called into question in late February of this year, when Northeast Portland’s Pho Gabo closed following anonymous complaints about the smell of grilled food.
The following month, Portland Commissioner Carmen Rubio asked officials to pause odor code enforcement and ordered the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to update the ordinance…