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Make New York Green - Expand New York's Parks and Open Spaces

Sponsored by: Campaign for New York's Future

New York City residents have fewer acres of green space per person than almost any other city in the country. In some neighborhoods, 12,000 children or more can share as few as three playgrounds.

PlaNYC, a plan to improve the city's environment and build a sustainable future, will include seven initiatives to increase open space and improve public health in New York City.

These plans include making existing parks and recreational sites more available to New Yorkers, expanding usable hours at existing facilities, and expanding the city's tree canopy cover from 24 to 30 percent by 2030.

These plans and others will promote increased property values, calm traffic and increase the health and quality of life for all New Yorkers, as it would provide at least 1.5 acres of park space for every 1000 people.

Sign the petition today to show your support for PlaNYC!

deadline: 2-3-2009
goal: 3,000

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Dear decision maker,

I am writing to urge you to support three primary approaches to ensure that nearly every New Yorker lives within a 10-minute walk of a park by 2030:

- Make existing sites available to more New Yorkers. This includes opening schoolyards across the city as public playgrounds, allowing athletic
teams across the city to use existing fields and complexes, and completing at least one major underdeveloped park site in every borough.

- Expand usable hours at existing sites. This includes converting asphalt sites into multi-purpose fields and installing new lighting that allows for nighttime use of existing fields.

- Re-imagine the public realm. The City will create a new or enhance existing public plazas in every community and will green the cityscape through tree plantings and expanding the Greenstreets program.

We signed the “Make New York Green - Expand New York's Parks and Open Spaces” letter!

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5:59 pm PDT, Jul 24, Megan Anderson, Ohio
New York needs more parks and open space to escape all of the fumes produced in the city. Many of those fumes can be dangerous to our health. More parks will be beneficial to the city as everyone will get great use out of it. Also they will get clean, fresh air while they are there.

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12:46 am PDT, May 4, C JONES, New York
I live and vote in NYC and improving the environment is #1 in improving "quality of life."

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