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Commission considers park fee increases.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 27-FEB-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1038 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Commission considers park fee increases.(Government)(A handful of residents and some commissioners express opposition to initiating entrance charges at Mount Pisgah)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard

If they're leaning at all - and they won't make a decision for several weeks yet - most of the Lane County commissioners don't seem inclined to begin charging people to visit Mount Pisgah and the Howard Buford Recreation Area southeast of Eugene.

"I think Mount Pisgah is a treasure, and I don't want to charge people to enjoy it," Commissioner Tom Lininger said during Wednesday's meeting of the county's elected officials. "It's a place of natural beauty on its own - the county doesn't provide that. It would be like making people pay to see the sun rise."

The county's Parks Department has given the commissioners several alternatives for raising money to help defray the rising cost of maintaining and improving county park facilities, which now get no financial support from the county's general fund.

One includes raising existing day-use fees at county recreation sites by one-third, to...

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