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First Reading of Ordinance No. 18-1027, Designating Old Canemah Park as a Park Under Oregon City Charter Chapter X
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Approve the first reading of Ordinance No. 18-1027, Designating Old Canemah Park as a Park Under Oregon City Charter Chapter X.
BACKGROUND:
The Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee (PRAC) was established in 1983 by the City Commission to advocate for recreational opportunities for Oregon City and to oversee implementation of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan. To ensure recreational opportunities are preserved in Oregon City, the PRAC has undertaken the review of the charter park status of all Oregon City parks which are owned and managed by the Oregon City Parks and Recreation Department.
Oregon City owns thirty-six parks, eleven of those are identified in Section 42 of Chapter X of the City Charter making them charter parks. Sixteen more parks (Abernethy Creek Park, Jon Storm Park, Park Place Park, Richard Bloom Tots’ Park, Filbert Run Park, Hartke Park, Hazelwood Park, Chapin Park, Shenandoah Park, Wesley Lynn Park, Hillendale Park, Glen Oak Park, Canemah Slope Park, Straight Pioneer Cemetery, Stafford Park and Pioneer Community Center) were added to the charter through the provisions outlined in Section 43, which allows charter park designation through ordinance adoption. Identification in the City Charter ensures park protection by preventing the transfer, sale, vacation or major changes to charter parks without a legal vote of the people.
Of the remaining nine non-charter parks, Old Canemah Park was acquired by Clackamas County in 1985 in accordance with a 1984 intergovernmental agreement between the County and the City of Oregon City, and subsequently sold to the City of Oregon City in 1986 for one dollar. The 1999 Parks Master Plan identified Old Canemah Park as a partially developed park. Adoption of Ordinance No. 18-1027 will designate Old Canemah Park as a park under Chapter X of t...
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