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2024 changes to athletic permit rules and their objectives
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Council Member Krishnan discusses the recent changes to the Parks Department's athletic permit rules, implemented in 2024. These changes aim to address longstanding concerns and improve equity in access to recreational facilities.
- The new rules seek to reduce the dominance of for-profit organizations in obtaining permits, ensuring better equity and fair access for nonprofits and local community organizations.
- The changes aim to reduce or eliminate empty permitted fields and discourage permit holders from requesting unneeded space.
- Krishnan expresses interest in seeing how these new rules are being implemented and whether they have successfully addressed the concerns raised by park users.
- The overall goal is to ensure all New Yorkers have equitable access to recreational facilities through a fair permitting system.
Shekar Krishnan
0:09:38
To address these concerns, in 2024, the Parks Department announced a series of proposed changes to its athletic permit rules.
0:09:46
Under those proposed rules that were subsequently adopted, the Parks Department tried to address the dominance of for profit organizations that have greater resources to obtain permanent permitted space to ensure better equity and fair access for nonprofits and local community organizations.
0:10:02
The rules also seek to reduce or eliminate empty permitted fields and discourage permit holders from requesting unneeded space, ensuring greater access for local community residents.
0:10:14
I am very interested to see how these new rules are being implemented and whether they have successfully addressed the concerns that have long been raised by park users so all New Yorkers have equitable access to our recreational facilities.
0:10:28
Again, we're tackling two things, increasing access for our communities to public fields both outdoors and courts indoors, and then how we permit those fields to make sure that once we open them up, every New Yorker, every nonprofit organization, everyone can have fair and equitable access to them through our parks permitting system.