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.[1]
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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.[2]
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.[3]
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References
edit- ^ "City of Portland Demographics Dashboard". March 4, 2019. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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