Park Fun Facts
Sorry, I've been busy with a number of things and haven't had time to post, so I'll just post some basic facts and you can interpret them anyway you want. The parks data comes from the Portland Parks website.
City of Portland Parks
Acres of land managed: 10000
Acres of park managed: 8738.8
Acres of city golfcourses: 794.4
Acres of full-time off-leash: 33.137
Number of full-time playscapes: 110
Number of full-time off-leash areas: 6
Percentage of Portland households with children under age 18*: 27
Percentage of Portland households with a dog: 40+
Number of daily playscape inspections: 110
Number of tennis courts: 119
Number of softball fields: 99
Number of soccer/football fields: 80
Number of horseshoe pits: 20
Number of time-limited OL areas: 27
Estimated amount of money spent in first year on leash and scoop enforcement: $100,000.00
Number of people doing the enforcement: 20
Number of man-hours spent enforcing scoop and leash laws per month: 3400
Total scoop law citations written in last 12 months: 3
Estimate number of dog visits to neighborhood parks in a year**: 2,427,250
Number of "bite investigations" in parks for 12 months: 25
Number of "bite investigations" per dog visit: .00107% or 1 in 93,356
Number of crime victims in the City of Portland in 2003**: 46,391
Odds of being a crime victim in the City of Portland in 2003: 8.6% or 1 in 11.6
* 2000 census, though this number has been declining for many years.
**Conservative, back-of-the envelope estimate assuming an average of 50 daily dog visits to each of the 132 neighborhood parks plus Forest Park (25+ undeveloped parks omitted, walkways and other public areas (such as the Esplanade and Tom McCall Waterfront Park) and natural areas also omitted. For most parks, the number of visits are much, much greater.
***From City website and assuming a population of 539,438.
posted by 2pups Link
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I saw that $100,000 first-year expense too in some article I read. But I think that's just slick accounting tricks, cause it's got to be a lot more than that if you do the math. If you assume that each of these hired thugs, I mean, park rangers makes minimum wage (and you know they make a lot more than that) then that comes up to a cost of more than $25,000 per month. Add social security payments, city benefits, etc. and you've got about $100,000 for only THREE MONTHS, not one year. And then there are the trucks, walkie-talkies, uniforms, etc.
This is a VERY expensive undertaking and as a tax payer it makes me mad! Is this the best way to spend our money??? I'd like to see them spend some of that money finding out who's trying to kill and hurt dogs and children at parks. but I'm sure THAT won't happen!
I didn't vote for the tax increase a year ago so they could spend it to harass me.
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