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Portland Parks Commissioner Carmen Rubio has approved new System Development Charge (SDC) funding to go to several important park projects across the Rose City. Improvements to Portland’s popular Kelley Point Park, a new playground at East Portland’s Midland Park, a new skatepark in Southeast Portland, new land acquisitions, and other park improvements are now in the works and in various stages of planning, at the commissioner’s direction. These projects are slated for funding in the city’s 2023-24 fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2023.

After years of deliberation and inspections, Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) has recommended Columbia Pool be permanently closed due to life-safety hazards and diminishing structural integrity. Continuing thorough inspections first initiated in 2008, an independent structural engineering firm found life-safety hazards in the aging building in 2021 and determined it was unsafe for use. As with other Portland Parks & Recreation public facilities, Columbia Pool had been closed for most of 2020 due to COVID-19; it has not since reopened.