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• It provides land use planning and is responsible for the creation of the Portland-area urban growth boundary, a legal boundary which separates urban from rural land, and is designed to reduce urban sprawl.
• It is responsible for the region's transportation planning (though TriMet operates the region's buses and MAX light rail).
• It manages several park facilities, including Blue Lake and Oxbow Regional Parks, Howell Territorial Park, Glendoveer golf course, the Sauvie Island and Gleason Memorial Boat Ramps, Chinook Landing Marine Park, the Smith and Bybee Lakes Wildlife Area, Beggars-tick Wildlife Refuge, and fourteen pioneer cemeteries in Multnomah County.
• It is responsible for maintaining landfills and recycling transfer stations.
• It owns and operates the Oregon Convention Center , Oregon Zoo, Portland Center for Performing Arts , and Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center .
• It is responsible for regional fish and wildlife habitat protection and cartography.

Metro was created by voters to join the Columbia Region Association of Governments (CRAG) and the Metropolitan Planning Commission in a May 1970 election. Metro in its current form went into operation on January 1, 1979Events January-February January 1 Sino-American relations: United States and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations January 4 State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in Kent State University shootings..

Metro is governed by a council president elected region-wide and six commissioners who are elected by district. Metro also has an auditor who is elected region-wide. Each serves a four-year term. The council appoints a chief operating officerA chief operating officer (or COO is a corporate officer responsible for management of day-to-day activities of the corporation. The COO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, monitoring the daily operations of the company and reporting and an attorneyAn attorney is someone who represents someone else in the transaction of business: For attorney-at-law see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary. For attorney-in-fact see power of attorney..

1 Cities served by Metro

Metro serves 25 cities in ClackamasClackamas County is a county located in the U. State of Oregon. The county was named after the Native Americans living in the area, the Clackamas, who were part of the Chinook people. As of 2000, the population is 338,391. Its county seat is Oregon City 6, MultnomahMultnomah County is a county located in the U. State of Oregon, the smallest in area but the largest in population due to Portland, the county seat and largest city in Oregon. The county was named after a Native American people first recorded in the journ, and WashingtonWashington County is a county located in the U. State of Oregon. Originally called Twality, the Territorial Legislature renamed this county for the first president of the United States, George Washington on September 3, 1849. As of the 2000 census, Washin counties, as well as unincorporated parts of those counties: