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Metro (Oregon Regional Government)
Metro is the regional government for the Oregon portion of the Portland metropolitan area, covering portions of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties. It is the only directly elected regional government and metropolitan planning organization in the United States. Metro is responsible for overseeing the Portland region's solid waste system, general planning of land use and transportation, maintaining certain regional parks and natural areas, and operating the Oregon Zoo, Oregon Convention Center, Portland's Centers for the Arts, and the Portland Expo Center. It also distributes money from two voter-approved tax measures: one for homeless services and one for affordable housing. History and evolution Metro in its current form evolved from Columbia Region Association of Governments (CRAG) (1966–1978) and a predecessor Metropolitan Service District (MSD) (1957–1966). Measure 6, a 1978 statewide ballot measure established Metro, effective January 1, 1979. In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Metropolitan Area
The Portland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area, metro area with its urban area, core in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington (state), Washington. It has 5 principal cities, the largest being Portland, Oregon. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) identifies it as the Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro, OR–WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan statistical area used by the United States Census Bureau (USCB) and other entities. The OMB defines the area as comprising Clackamas County, Oregon, Clackamas, Columbia County, Oregon, Columbia, Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah, Washington County, Oregon, Washington, and Yamhill County, Oregon, Yamhill Counties in Oregon, and Clark County, Washington, Clark and Skamania County, Washington, Skamania Counties in Washington. The area had a population of 2,512,859 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, an increase of over 12% since 2010. The Oregon portion of the metropolitan area is the state's large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home-rule
Home rule is the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. It is thus the power of a part (administrative division) of a state or an external dependent country to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been decentralized to it by the central government. Home rule may govern in an autonomous administrative division; in contrast, though, there is no sovereignty separate from that of the parent state, and thus no separate chief military command nor separate foreign policy and diplomacy. In the British Isles, it traditionally referred to self-government, devolution or independence of the countries of the United Kingdom—initially Ireland, and later Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In the United States and other countries organised as federations of states, the term usually refers to the process and mechanisms of self-government as exercised by municipalities, counties, or other units of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chehalem Ridge Nature Park
Chehalem Ridge Nature Park is a nature park in the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 2021, the park is owned and operated by Metro (Oregon regional government), Metro, the regional government in the Oregon portion of the metro area. This is despite that the park is located outside the regional government's boundary. The park is named after the Chehalem Mountains, where the park is located. The park is located off Dixon Mill Road, east of Gaston between Oregon Route 47 and Oregon Route 219. History Metro purchased the property for the park in 2008 from Stimson Lumber Company using money from bond measure, voter approved bonds passed in 1995 and 2006. In 2010, restoration to the former tree farm began with tree thinning and removal of invasive plant species. Construction of park amenities started in 2020, paid for from other bond measures in 2013, 2016, and 2019. Chehalem Ridge opened on December 13, 2021, after $5.2 million in construction. Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
