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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: It's Creepy Season: Metro's Haunted Lands
Description: Did you know that more than three-fourths of Metro’s park lands purchased with bonds since 1995 are hidden from the public? You might as well call Metro’s lands haunted.
Metro has no problems with this fact, no matter how shocking this number is to its residents. In fact, with its newest land acquisition -- an 86-acre property in the Sandy River Basin -- Metro makes it painstakingly clear that this land (along with its 1,400 acres already in the area) is not for human use.
What will the land accomplish for taxpayers? Unfortunately, the answer is a...