Mayor Potter believes that the health and wellbeing of the city’s children is the primary benchmark of Portland’s progress and he is a prominent advocate of children’s rights.
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon, and county seat of Multnomah County.
Portland is known as "The City of Roses" or "Rose City", nicknames that originated during the 1905 Lewis and Clark centennial exposition.
Portland is the third largest city in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia, with a population of 556,370 (July 1, 2005 estimate).
Portland is often cited[2] as an example of a city with strong land use planning controls; the opposite extreme, a city with few or no controls, is typically illustrated by Houston, Texas.
Mayor Neil Goldschmidt took office in the 1970s as a proponent of bringing housing and the associated vitality back to the downtown area, which was seen as emptying out after 5pm.
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