The new local share handbook provides guidance to program participants in selecting projects for local share funding. Additionally, $4 million has been dedicated to the Block 14 cultural heritage garden at Lone Fir Cemetery.
Metro continues to work toward implementing the 2019 park and nature bond measure.
Now more than ever, communities in greater Portland count on parks, trails and natural areas as an integral part of healthy, livable neighborhoods. Parks and nature staff are using virtual tools to connect with community members and develop a work plan to implement the $475 million bond measure voters passed in November 2019 to protect clean water, restore fish and wildlife habitat and provide access to nature for communities across the region.
A newly acquired 86-acre property in the Sandy River Basin will protect wildlife habitat, improve landscape connectivity and climate resilience, help provide access for restoration and land management and provide potential opportunities for native plant harvest by Indigenous communities.