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Indy ranks 93 put of 100 cities in expenditure per capita for parks? Sounds bad but there must be more in the details. How does it rank compared to nearby peer cities such as Columbus OH, Louisville, Cincinnati?
What Indy should do is enhance and expand a network of tree lined and landscaped boulevards to connect all city parks. Improve and better connect Fall Creek, Pleasant Run, Brookside, Ellenberger, White River and Burdsal Parkways; develop parkway streets similar to Burdsal Parkway (and 17th St, 6th Ave and Monaco Parkways in Denver) to connect Washington Park to Brookside Park, DouglasPark, Christian Park Nd Fall Creek Parkway; develop a parkway street to connect Brookside Park, Riverside Park and Thatcher Park with a link southward to Rhodius Park continuing to Garfield Park. Build a parkway adjacent to the IWC canal between 30th Street and Fall Creek Pkwy. Improve Kessler Blvd as an urban parkway with parkway links to Broad Ripple Park, Marott Park and Holliday Park. Also establish a city arborist and a program to plant trees in city rights of way and to encourage property owners to plant trees to improve the hideous streetscape throughout the city. The once beautiful tree canopies have disappeared as trees were felled over the last 30 years
In the Trust for Public Land’s latest Parkscore rankings, Cincinnati is No. 8 of 100, Columbus is 53rd, Kansas City (Missouri) is 20th, Cleveland is 24th, Nashville (Tennessee) is 86th and St. Louis is 16th.
https://www.tpl.org/parkscore
We really need to plant more trees in the inner city and build more paths to connect the parks already there. More bike lanes for example leads to more people enjoying outdoors.
Some years back, when Indy Parks was updating its Parks Strategic Plan, I repeatedly tried to persuade the park planners and their consultants to retain (within the plan document) the detailed listing of potential acquisition sites, which had been included in the previous plan. but to no avail. It’s but one example of Indy Parks’ historical purposeful non-interest in adequate land acquisition. But to be fair, for several decades, the then-mayors and then-councilors were opposed to ever appropriating funds for new parkland acquisition. One reason, as former mayor Ballard relayed in the big parks and greenspace conference a couple years ago at UIndy, is that “Public Safety (police and fire) always sucks up all available dollars that aren’t nailed down.” So it goes….
I’m excited that city is doing something positive with our tax dollars for a change. I am not blind to the bad and harmful things the city does with our money. I know they are doing a lot of things I don’t like or agree with. I just keep looking for the silver lining in things. Which has gotten to be harder and harder with all the damage done by the government controlling our lives and killing our kids. Sometimes physically as in suicide and sometimes emotionally and/or socially. But I am glad the city is starting to buy up land. If I had the money I would buy up land just so builders couldn’t tear down more trees just to make a profit.