Mingus Mapps lays out alternate plan to remake Portland government, hoping it will dampen support for more sweeping option

Like the official ballot proposal, his alternate package would scrap Portland’s odd — and, many say, dysfunctional — commission form of government and create geographic council member districts.

And it would shy away from the official proposal’s most contentious provision, an unusual system to select council members that is not used in any other U.S. city and is similar to those chosen by only a handful of American municipalities