Portland Bans Urinals In $195M ‘Gender-Neutral?Remodel of Government Building

[GhostofDempsey]

The City of Portland has banned urinals in the $195 million remodel of the Portland Building, which houses administrative offices for the city. While urinals use less water than toilets, they are a relic of a bygone era when men and women were recognized as biologically different. A spokeswoman told NBC affiliate KGW News that she could not estimate how much it will cost to remove the urinals, which have been a feature of the building since its construction in 1982. Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart explained the urinal ban in an email to employees last February. “We will continue to have gender-specific (male and female) multi-stall restrooms that are readily available to any employee that prefers to use one. But, there will be no urinals in any restroom in the building. This will give us the flexibility we need for any future changes in signage,?he wrote.

[kushking]

The City of Portland has banned urinals in the $195 million remodel of the Portland Building, which houses administrative offices for the city. While urinals use less water than toilets, they are a relic of a bygone era when men and women were recognized as biologically different. A spokeswoman told NBC affiliate KGW News that she could not estimate how much it will cost to remove the urinals, which have been a feature of the building since its construction in 1982. Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart explained the urinal ban in an email to employees last February. “We will continue to have gender-specific (male and female) multi-stall restrooms that are readily available to any employee that prefers to use one. But, there will be no urinals in any restroom in the building. This will give us the flexibility we need for any future changes in signage,?he wrote.

Libtardia is the most disgusting of all mental illnesses

[BostonGuy]

The City of Portland has banned urinals in the $195 million remodel of the Portland Building, which houses administrative offices for the city. While urinals use less water than toilets, they are a relic of a bygone era when men and women were recognized as biologically different. A spokeswoman told NBC affiliate KGW News that she could not estimate how much it will cost to remove the urinals, which have been a feature of the building since its construction in 1982. Chief Administrative Officer Tom Rinehart explained the urinal ban in an email to employees last February. “We will continue to have gender-specific (male and female) multi-stall restrooms that are readily available to any employee that prefers to use one. But, there will be no urinals in any restroom in the building. This will give us the flexibility we need for any future changes in signage,” he wrote.

Let's spend $195 million on:

Education
Affordable housing
Food stamps & welfare programs


"No, we're going to piss away (pun intended) $195 million to address a nonissue."

Insanity

[Mooshashi]

Lots of men squat to piss....if they all move to Portland everyone will be happier.

[Zaroku]

i lived on a co ed floor in a dorm at Cal, Ida Sproul Unit 3, co ed bathrooms still going on, since the 80s

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Ida Sproul, Norton, Priestley, Spens-Black, and Beverly Cleary Halls

The renovated Unit 3 complex includes four high-rise halls surrounding a large courtyard and a central commons building that houses the dining center, main office, recreation lounge, and the Academic Services Center.

Located one block from campus.
Features a modern and colorful dining center and Bear Market store.
Four of the five buildings are high-rise halls (Ida Sproul, Norton, Priestley, Spens-Black) that feature:
Eight floors of double- and triple-occupancy rooms, some doubles and triples in suite (Single rooms are reserved for upper division students and students with accommodations.)
Approximately 230 students in each hall
Rooms with extra-long twin beds, dressers, desks, mirrors, and closets
Triple rooms include a bunk bed & a lofted bed
Rooms with high-speed Internet connections
Some rooms have a bay view
Most floors are all gender with one large all-gender bathroom per floor
Single-gender floors are available
Floor lounges
Main lounge on entry level
In Spens-Black House: The Unity House Theme Program
Beverly Cleary Hall is a mid-rise building across the street from Unit 3 on Channing Way that features:
A lounge on entry level
The Casa Magdalena Mora Theme Program

Double Room

Bold please..

chicks would walk in while i was standing at the urinal. they'd greet me like nothing.

I used to get wood in my room, let it get a little soft, then go take a standing pee, and I stood back from the urinal and was greeting my female dorm dwellers, and I guess that makes me a cheater?

[Zaroku]

Let's spend $195 million on:

Education
Affordable housing
Food stamps & welfare programs


"No, we're going to piss away (pun intended) $195 million to address a nonissue."

Insanity

i wish i had a piece of that contract.
the rebuilding of sendai, is all gov gifted contracts to generous campaign contributors.

japan like the US, is not a meritocracy, and poor people may vote, but not in droves, because they are busying working two jobs to make ends meet.

I thought about starting a minority owned business type thing to get my bid looked at, but the big boys play big boy games.

when i went to jail recently for fighting, a local power politician went to bat for me, he did not know me, but after a donation, his people mobilized their forces. I only spent 17 days, instead of 6 years, yeah, i hurt that fool.

but...money buys force, it like forces in physics has direction and magnitude.

if i had government contracts, and i belonged to the guild that supplies goods or services, a well placed "donation"

boondoggle was invented in asia mr boston guy, america is a young country, filled with idealists and dreamers, you gotta know who to leverage and who not to leverage.

that money could feed, and help a lot of people, if applied appropriately.

i could go on, but i am sure you get my point.

[Zaroku]

Lots of men squat to piss....if they all move to Portland everyone will be happier.

my wife wants me to squat, she says old dong sprays urine all over the place. i tell her, i will, but not yet honey, not yet.

[GhostofDempsey]

I’m still wondering why a government building cost $195M just to remodel. I’m sure it will cost taxpayers a few hundred thousand to renovate the new bathrooms just to remove urinals that no one was complaining about.

[Pigeons]

While urinals use less water than toilets, they are a relic of a bygone era when men and women were recognized as biologically different.

Made me giggle a little.

[JimRaynor]

Let's spend $195 million on:

Education
Affordable housing
Food stamps & welfare programs


"No, we're going to piss away (pun intended) $195 million to address a nonissue."

Insanity

You vote for these people and then you complain....