Misplaced Pages

Portland Parks & Recreation

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Portland Parks & Recreation
Logo
Location
Staff4,366 (2019)
Websitewww.portland.gov/parks/

Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) is a Bureau of the City of Portland, Oregon that manages the city parks, natural areas, recreational facilities, gardens, and trails. The properties, which occupy a total of more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha). The bureau employs a total of 4,366 employees as of March 4, 2019. 3,752 are casual, 559 are regular and the remainder are other categories.

The development of Portland's park system was largely guided by the 1903 Olmsted Portland park plan.

Following a City Council decision, smoking, vaping and marijuana use have been entirely banned since July 2015 in all Portland city parks and nature areas.

In March 2021, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality fined PP&R nearly half a million dollars for failing to establish a storm water control system to prevent toxic runoff water from an industrial land the park purchased in 2004 and 2009 for building new entrance and trailhead to Forest Park.

See also

References

  1. "City of Portland Demographics Dashboard". March 4, 2019. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  2. Theen, Andrew (2015-02-19). "No smoking allowed: Portland City Council approves smoking ban for city parks, nature areas". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  3. Kavanaugh, Shane Dixon (2021-03-25). "Portland parks bureau fined nearly $500k for toxic runoff that drains into Willamette River". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-05-10.

External links

Parks in Portland, Oregon
Parks
North
Northeast
Northwest
South
Southeast
Southwest
Related


Stub icon

This Oregon government-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: