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Metropolitan Greenspaces: Master Plan Portland State University PDXScholar Metro Collection Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library 7-1-1992 Metropolitan Greenspaces: Master Plan Metro (Or.) Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oscdl_metro Part of the Urban Studies Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Metro (Or.), "Metropolitan Greenspaces: Master Plan" (1992). Metro Collection. 17. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oscdl_metro/17 This Report is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Metro Collection by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. Greenspace^^ METROPOLITAN s Master Plan A Cooperative Regional System of Natural Areas, Open Space, Trails and Greenways for Wildlife and People Metro is the directly elected regional government that serves (As of July 1992) Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and the 24 Policy Advisory Committee Members: cities that make up the Portland metropolitan area. Richard Pevlin, Metro councilor and chair Metro is responsible for solid waste management, operation of Ruth McFarland, Metro councilor andMce-chair the Metro Washington Park,Zoo, transportation and land use Sandi Hansen, Metro councilor planning, urban growth boundary management, technical Judie Hammerstad, Clackamas County commissioner services to local governments and, through the Metropolitan Pauline Anderson, Muttnomah County commissioner Exposition-Recreation Commission, management of the Eve Killpack, Washington County commissioner Bob Hathaway Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District Oregon Convention Center, Memorial Coliseum, Civic A Mike Lindberg, city ofPortladd commissioner Stadium and the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. H. Wade Byers, mayor of Gladstone j Sam Cox, mayor ofTroutdale Executive Officer Shirley Huffman, mayor ofHillsboro Rena Cusma Mike Houck, Audubon Society of Portland Jack Broome, The Wetlands Conservancy Councilors by District are: Anne Nickel, Columbia Corridor Association Robert Evans, Robert Evans Company District 1 Susan McLain Dorothea Lensch, citizen District 2 Jon Kvistad Susan A. Lamb, citizen District 3 Jim Gardner District 4 Richard Devlin Dr. Judith Ramaley, president, Portland State University John Magnano, Clark County commissioner District 5 Mike Gates Jane Van Dyke, Intergovernmental Resource Center District 6 George Van Bergen Doug £ottam, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife District 7 Ruth McFarland Marguerite Nabeta, Oregon State Parks Department District 8 Judy Wyers Russell Peterson, U:S. Fish and Wildlife Service District 9 Rod Monroe District 10 Roger Buchanan Technical Advisory Committee Members: District 11 Ed Washington District 12 Sandi Hansen Richard Devlin, Metro councilor and chair District 13 Terrv Moore Ruth McFarland; Metro councilor and vice-chair Jim $julin/Dave Yamashita, Portland Parks and Recreation Bureau Greenspaces Planning Staff: Linda Dobson, Commissioner Lindberghs Office, Andy Cotugno, planning director city of Portland Pat Lee, regional planning supervisor Dan Zinzer, Clackamas County Parks David Ausherman, associate regional planner Roger Brown, North Clackamas Parks and Recreation Mel Huie, senior regional planner District ^ ; Ellen Lanier-Phelps, senior regional planner Jerri Bohard, Clark County Open Space Commission Staff Eric Sample, program assistant Charles Ciecko, Multnomah County Parks Nancy Chase, Multnomah County Parks Metro Hal Bergsma, Washington County Land Use and 2000 SW First Ave. \ Transportation Portland, OR 97201-5398 Jim McElhinny, Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District (503)221-1646 Kelly Punteney, Vancouver City Manager's Office Glenn Lamb, Intergovernmental Resource Center After mid-April 1993 Don Robertson, city ofMilwaukie Parks and > 600 NE Grand Ave. - Recreation Department Portland, OR 97232-2736 Julee Conway, city ofGresham Parks (503)797-1700 Paul Hennon, city of Tualatin Parks and Recreation Ron Klein, Portland General Electric For more information about Greenspaces, call Metro at Ivy Frances, CPO 1, Washington County 22-GREEN (224-7336). Jack Wiles, Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation Pat Wright, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mike Houck, Audubon Society of Portland Barbara Walker, citizen Photographs by C. Bruce Forster and Michael Wilhelm. Printed on recycled paper ' 92211ts GreenspaceMETROPOLITAN s Master Plan Adopted July 1992 METRO Preface July 1992 Defining the Metropolitan "Our options are expiring. As far connected with greenways and Greenspaces program as open space is concerned, it trails. The objectives of creat- ing this system include main- During the past three years, the doesn 't make a great deal of taining the character and liv- Metropolitan Service District difference -when the projected new ability of the region and provid- has worked with cities, coun- ing additional passive recre- population reaches target or ties, park districts, state and ational opportunities and federal agencies, businesses, •whether it is going to be housed in improvements for existing and nonprofit conservation organi- green-belted mega-structures or future residents to enjoy and zations, "friends" groups and experience. Protection would interested citizens in develop- linear cities or what. The land be accomplished through a ing the Metropolitan Green- that is still to be saved will have variety of strategies. spaces program. From this to be saved within the next few cooperative genesis, the major The second, and more subtle, themes and initial policy and years. We have no luxury of level would cultivate a strong implementation recommenda- choice. We must make our sense of stewardship for the tions of this Metropolitan natural resources among the commitments now and look to this Greenspaces Master Plan have region's constituents. It seeks grown. landscape as the last one. For us to foster and shape a civic ethic it will be." through which full implemen- The master plan details the tation of the plan may occur. vision, goals and organizational William H. Whyte framework of a regional system The Last Landscape, 1911 of natural areas, open space, The need to protect trails and greenways for wildlife open space and people in the Portland, Oregon - Vancouver, Washington, metropolitan area. Metro's adopted population forecast projects that the Pordand-Vancouver metropolitan area At this time, the document focuses on the will grow by more than 480,000 people between Oregon component of the plan. It will be 1987 and 2010. Growth trends during the last amended to include the Washington compo- five years support this forecast. More homes nent once a parallel planning effort is com- and business opportunities will be created to pleted by Clark County and the city of serve anticipated growth. A crucial question is Vancouver. The master plan and the regional how the communities in our region will work system of greenspaces will then truly serve the together to plan for, direct and adjust to the larger metropolitan area. changes brought on by growth. The master plan is a complex planning docu- The quality of life of this region is at a cross- ment with deliberately broad scope. It may best roads. It seems clear that, as communities be understood as a document that functions on continue to develop, the land supply available two levels. The first, and most tangible, level for open space and parks will be smaller and articulates a desired system of large natural generally more expensive to purchase. What areas recommended for protection and inter- are our planning and funding priorities? Should Metropolitan Greenspaces Master Plan, July 1992 parks and open space continue to be among the The structure of the visual and natural charac- first items cut in public budgets? teristics of the region includes watersheds that drain the land and topographic features that Lands outside designated urban areas are also provide form and focus to the skyline. Each of experiencing growth, and some real estate these landscape units is affected by human speculation is occurring outside the urban settlement and the alterations that accompany growth boundary. Should some of these lands development. be set aside now as protected greenspaces? In 1989, Metro inventoried and mapped the It is our assertion that if we are to have parks remaining natural areas within the Oregon and open space areas in the future, we need to component, a 372,682-acre study area. At that reposition our planning and funding priorities time, approximately 29 percent of the land in now to reflect the importance of greenspaces in the metropolitan region (including the Colum- our urban fabric. The protection, acquisition bia Gorge between the Sandy River and the Mt. and active stewardship of greenspaces must Hood National Forest) was considered to be become just as important as planning highways, largely without human-made structures. Only transit, water and sewer lines, and other basic around 8.5 percent of the natural land in the public services. study area is in public parks ownership or currently protected as natural areas or open space. The face of change With more than 91 percent of the inventoried From 1970 to 1990, the population in the tri- natural areas unprotected, many greenspaces county region increased from 878,676 to more can be developed tomorrow according to the than 1.1 million. Changes in the face of the local land use and zoning
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