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Community Parks Initiative (CPI) for equitable park improvements
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The Community Parks Initiative (CPI) is highlighted as the Parks Department's signature equity-driven investment program, focusing on enhancing green spaces in underserved neighborhoods.
- Over the past decade, 67 CPI projects have been completed, with another 40 projects actively underway.
- The initiative represents over half a billion dollars of capital funding for rebuilding parks and playgrounds that haven't seen significant investment in decades.
- A partnership with CUNY Graduate School of Public Health is assessing the positive health and social impacts of CPI projects.
- The program emphasizes community input and data-driven methodology to create thriving public spaces in areas of greatest need.
Susan Donoghue
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Through this initiative, we are both using data driven methodology and working with communities to create thriving public spaces.
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Over the past decade, we have reimagined and reconstructed 67 CPI projects for local neighborhood parks and have another 40 projects actively underway.
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Over half a billion dollars of capital funding for rebuilding parks and playgrounds that haven't seen significant investment in decades.
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Through a partnership with CUNY, with the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, we have assessed the positive health and social impacts of CPI and this study has been extended to research the impact of local programming and activation in our CPI parks on quality of life and well-being so that we can best understand how quality parks can benefit everyone in our communities.
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We'll be making some exciting new CPI project announcements in the near future, so stay tuned and we look forward to inviting you to many more community input meetings, groundbreakings, and ribbon cuttings as these projects progress.