Time for Portland Parks to take toilets seriously
- replacing bathrooms by portapotties is a blow to the heart of how Portland lives, and what Portland is to its citizens and its visitors.
- I expect that of all annual park users the vast majority are passive users, i.e., people who use the playgrounds, picnic, enjoy the gardens, go for a walk as opposed to participating in a structured recreation program, use pools or other community center activities. By closing restrooms, reducing trash pick up, reducing landscape maintenance you will degrade the parks experience for the largest portion of park users.
- The Park’s service math is wrong. If the equation is number served… and they are taking that number from those registering for classes or services, the math is wrong. I use the facility and don’t register for services. It is our only walking route in the area that has a public facility
- Surely keeping the parks clean and sanitary is an essential service that should be fully funded before less essential services. Also before new parks are developed we ought to be sure we can adequately maintain what we have.
- Cut management. There is no need to cut services. You can also cut some of the 3200 part-time and seasonal employees.
- ..Parks Maintenance Techs only spend a small amount of time removing trash and cleaning restrooms. There is a list of 100 other things that a Parks Maintenance Tech is responsible for…irrigation, turf, play structures, safety issues and on and on.
- convert many of the restrooms to run on solar power and use filtered rainwater for the sink, toilets and urinals.
- When I use a public bathroom, I am grateful that we have organized ourselves as a culture to take care of this basic need. Portapotties are temporary. They are never pleasant.
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