I’ve never understood how the park hours are enforced when we don’t ever have any park rangers in the vicinity and the police obviously wont be around to really enforce this either. I’m glad they are trying to do something but until there are real teeth behind these things it’s more of just wishful thinking.
When I was in high school we used to hang out in Washington Park after hours. The worst was having a cop catch me and my girlfriend messing around in my parents car.
In 1905 Portland planted thousands of Madame Caroline Testout rose bushes all over the city to celebrate the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Citizens cared for them and in a short time Portland became known as the City of Roses. You can still spot a few them in older neighborhoods and in the rose gardens in Washington and Peninsula Park. Tourists from around the world traveled to visit them.
Now it appears we have become the city of boulders, hardscaping, and metal grills around open areas. Paving over a field in Washington Park was narrowly averted--an area just a few blocks from the roses in the park. Art that was meant to be experienced now must be fenced or put in storage. Increasingly our public spaces reflect how we have allowed vandalism and crime to project a brutal image of our community. We cannot protect and build ourselves out of the prevailing mindset that turns its back on civic pride and where free expression means allowing the creeping, physical destruction of our city. While we can applaud protecting our spaces with fencing or limiting access, shouldn't we also be challenging the need to do so in the first place?
Remember those 200 miles of pale pink roses planted over a hundred years ago to welcome visitors to the city. Are 200 miles of metal fencing the best we can do now?
When will the missing wooden benches along NW 10th Ave in Jamison Park be returned? I understand they were removed by Portland Parks & Recreation for refurbishing. What is the status of the missing metal benches previously located at the north end of the park (& owned By Hoyt Street Partners)? Many benches recently removed in North Park Blocks as well. Summer seems like a terrible time to remove the benches in our parks.
Hurray for the Pearl Patrol and protecting the park!
Boo to Olivia Clark for not....
I’ve never understood how the park hours are enforced when we don’t ever have any park rangers in the vicinity and the police obviously wont be around to really enforce this either. I’m glad they are trying to do something but until there are real teeth behind these things it’s more of just wishful thinking.
When I was in high school we used to hang out in Washington Park after hours. The worst was having a cop catch me and my girlfriend messing around in my parents car.
In 1905 Portland planted thousands of Madame Caroline Testout rose bushes all over the city to celebrate the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Citizens cared for them and in a short time Portland became known as the City of Roses. You can still spot a few them in older neighborhoods and in the rose gardens in Washington and Peninsula Park. Tourists from around the world traveled to visit them.
Now it appears we have become the city of boulders, hardscaping, and metal grills around open areas. Paving over a field in Washington Park was narrowly averted--an area just a few blocks from the roses in the park. Art that was meant to be experienced now must be fenced or put in storage. Increasingly our public spaces reflect how we have allowed vandalism and crime to project a brutal image of our community. We cannot protect and build ourselves out of the prevailing mindset that turns its back on civic pride and where free expression means allowing the creeping, physical destruction of our city. While we can applaud protecting our spaces with fencing or limiting access, shouldn't we also be challenging the need to do so in the first place?
Remember those 200 miles of pale pink roses planted over a hundred years ago to welcome visitors to the city. Are 200 miles of metal fencing the best we can do now?
When will the missing wooden benches along NW 10th Ave in Jamison Park be returned? I understand they were removed by Portland Parks & Recreation for refurbishing. What is the status of the missing metal benches previously located at the north end of the park (& owned By Hoyt Street Partners)? Many benches recently removed in North Park Blocks as well. Summer seems like a terrible time to remove the benches in our parks.