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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!

# 200:

5:13 am PST, Feb 14, Lynne Kliman, New York

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5:13 am PST, Feb 14, Gina Blum, New York

# 198:

5:12 am PST, Feb 14, Gina Kolb, New York

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5:12 am PST, Feb 14, Sybil Sage, New York
More green areas will make New York better

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5:11 am PST, Feb 14, Lynn Kazimir, New York
Parks are an oasis in the city. In addition to the menal benefits of having a open space to relax in, it would benefit children and young people who need physical activity to remain healthy.

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5:11 am PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, New Jersey
please make NY a greener city expanding the green space per person...air canot be made without trees...please plant more trees also..thank you

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5:11 am PST, Feb 14, Cyndi Ellis, New York

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5:11 am PST, Feb 14, Lisa Barr, New York

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5:09 am PST, Feb 14, Michael Montel, New York

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4:53 am PST, Feb 14, Elizabeth Agostinho, New York

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4:51 am PST, Feb 14, Carlos Sabater, New York
We are in desperate need of preserving quality air for the continuance of existence and establishing spaces for all to connect with nature and maintain peace of mind. Do expand parks and open spaces.

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4:49 am PST, Feb 14, Ellen Krauss, New York

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4:03 am PST, Feb 14, David Hand, New York

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3:57 am PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, California

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3:26 am PST, Feb 14, Dori Pace, Arizona

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2:37 am PST, Feb 14, Janet Crozier, New York

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12:38 am PST, Feb 14, Cliff Schoonmaker, New York

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12:25 am PST, Feb 14, LJ Halpin, New York

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12:18 am PST, Feb 14, Vanessa Weeks, New York

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11:20 pm PST, Feb 13, Richard Cummings, New York

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11:06 pm PST, Feb 13, Joyce Gibbs, New York

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10:20 pm PST, Feb 13, Denise A Dobranchin, New York

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10:02 pm PST, Feb 13, Aine Abramtsev, New York

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9:56 pm PST, Feb 13, Amy Peters, New York

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9:50 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Idaho

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9:32 pm PST, Feb 13, Holly Moore, Illinois

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4:50 pm PST, Feb 13, Tara Torres, New Jersey

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3:45 pm PST, Feb 13, Melissa Lalonde, Canada

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3:18 pm PST, Feb 13, Tatiana Costa, Brazil

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2:28 pm PST, Feb 13, Curtis Fortin, Wyoming

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2:05 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, New York

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12:08 pm PST, Feb 13, Arlena Morton, Indiana

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11:27 am PST, Feb 13, Tyler Rud, Minnesota

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10:09 am PST, Feb 13, Rene Siracusa, Texas

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8:41 am PST, Feb 13, Cynthia Norris, Massachusetts

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4:43 am PST, Feb 13, Danielle Weaver, New Jersey
Great idea! Green it up!

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3:25 am PST, Feb 13, Jim Phillips, California

# 162:

11:39 pm PST, Feb 12, Nuveshen Naidoo, South Africa

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8:57 pm PST, Feb 12, Mary-Ann Z. Reynolds, Vermont
When I visit NYC, I am surprised at the lack of space. Please help to make NY green and support the initiatives that help make parks and spaces for children to run and adults to de-stress. This will promote healthier and happier people and communities.

# 160:

3:09 pm PST, Feb 12, Daile O'Connor, New Jersey

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2:31 pm PST, Feb 12, Name not displayed, Florida

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2:30 pm PST, Feb 12, Kenneth Lapointe, Canada

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1:38 pm PST, Feb 12, Frans Verhagen, New York
Parks contribute to strengthening one's ecological self, so important for the needed social transformation of the nation and the City.

# 156:

11:00 am PST, Feb 12, Furedi Annamaria, Hungary

# 155:

10:05 am PST, Feb 12, Simon Sol kemp, Oregon

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7:07 am PST, Feb 12, Olga Martin, Argentina

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7:02 am PST, Feb 12, Name not displayed, New York

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6:20 am PST, Feb 12, Susan Walker, California

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1:34 am PST, Feb 12, Jason Bowman, California

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