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Commitments and timelines for renovation and expansion of existing parks
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Council Member Riley inquires about specific commitments and timelines for renovating and expanding existing parks and open spaces in the area. Representatives from the Department of City Planning outline their approach and ongoing efforts.
- City agencies are collaborating to identify priority areas for improvements and expansions
- Planning team is working through community engagement priorities to allocate funds for park improvements
- Specific parks like John Hancock Playground, Potomac Playground, and Dean Playground are identified as high priorities
- A $24 million investment in St. Andrew's Playground is highlighted as a significant improvement
Kevin Riley
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Thank you.
0:43:35
Oh, that goes into my next question.
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What are the commitments and timelines for renovation and expansion of existing parks and open space in the area?
Alex Sommer
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So I'll I'll provide a high level discussion about the commitments and if you want to talk more about the the the parks improvements and and DOT plazas.
0:43:53
So as part of this process, and one of the one of the benefits of doing a this neighborhood holistic planning approach is that we get to work very closely with our sister agencies, our partner agencies.
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Where we can't identify new open spaces, we'll work with parks and DOT to identify places that need improvements or renovations and add things like restrooms or storm water improvements, new playground and play equipment, as well as expansions of places where we can take some either street back or property like with the public plaza program.
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So right now we've taken all of the community engagement priorities report, identified a list of plazas and parks that the community has identified as priorities.
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We're going through them right now with our sister agencies.
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And over the next couple of weeks through the remainder of ULURP we'll start working through allocating funds to those through the eventual points of agreement.
Kevin Riley
0:44:50
Thank you.
Alex Sommer
0:44:51
Jonah do you have anything you want to add to that?
Jonah Rogoff
0:44:52
I'll just say we look forward to working with council members as we kind of flesh out their priorities for parks.
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I think we already know from hearing from the community that there are certain parks within the area like John Hancock Playground, Potomac Playground, Dean Playground that are high priorities.
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And so we're taking a close look at what are these specific improvements for those parks as well as all the others.
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And then I'll just reiterate too we're excited about the $24,000,000 investment in St.
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Andrew's Playground which is one of the largest parks within the area that serve both Crown Heights and Bed Stuy.
Kevin Riley
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K.