Portland Parks & Recreation

Jay Robichaux

They put a fence around our park at the beginning of the pandemic. Funny that they only fenced the parks in our Southwest “privilege” neighborhoods Like Lair Hill & Fulton With putting up signs saying they are upgrading the parks. That was two years ago! My child has now seven and has not played in the park in two years. I have to drive them across town to another park. Everyone at the parks and recreation department should be terminated immediately they are useless and terrible at their jobs.

L David Jensen

Children's playground at Washington Park. Grandchildren love this playground, good variety of structures, nice rubber ground cover. One maintenance item: the swing brackets need grease!

Phil

Springwater

Kima Garrison

I was devastated to see that the meadow at the coupons was now a parking lot. This was completely unnecessary as I have never in the past 15 years ago and there had an issue with parking on the gravel strip out front. Also PP &R has a nasty habit of cutting down way too many trees including many large Doug firs. Whitaker ponds “nature park “is decimated, Alberta Park had many large trees cut down to have bushes in place. Completely unnecessary to cut down the trees... these plants and bushes could’ve been included around the perimeter or in between trees. Trees also don’t need to be cut for bike pathways! This agency complains that it doesn’t have enough money but it appears they have plenty of money if unnecessary parking lots are a priority. I could go on and on about unnecessary projects that do nothing to cool the city or mitigate climate change.