{"id":6928,"date":"2013-01-30T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speakcityheights.org\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2013-01-31T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:27:13","slug":"emerald-calls-for-a-frank-discussion-on-park-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/emerald-calls-for-a-frank-discussion-on-park-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Calls for a \u2018Frank Discussion\u2019 on Park Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Megan Burks<\/span><\/p>\n

Council President Todd Gloria has convened a new committee on infrastructure. It held its first meeting<\/a> Monday. <\/p>\n

Committee Chairman and District 5 Councilman Mark Kersey laid out his plans<\/a> for the committee last week; they center on assessing the weight of our infrastructure problem first<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a memo<\/a>, District 9 Councilwoman Marti Emerald, who also sits on the committee, joined Kersey and other colleagues in laying out priorities for the committee. They include holding a \u201cfrank discussion\u201d about park deficiencies in older communities<\/a> and strategies for mitigating the problem.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a discussion that\u2019s been boiling up in City Heights as skaters in the community advance their campaign for a skatepark<\/a>. The community is about 100 acres short of the recommended park space for a community of its size. Youth say they don\u2019t have enough places to be active.<\/p>\n

Emerald said she wants to explore adding green space (along with more transit options) into future street designs.<\/p>\n

Emerald\u2019s memo<\/a> also touches on another common discussion in City Heights: one about the need for more streetlights. Emerald said there are $26 million in unfunded streetlights. She called for a survey of existing lights to identify dark spots. She wants to then cross reference that information with police reports to see where new lights could deter crime.<\/p>\n

City Heights groups have been slowly chipping away at the problem with similar grassroots efforts. The City Heights Town Council is currently working with Mid-City police to install lights on homes in poorly lit areas.<\/p>\n

Click here to see the memo.<\/a><\/p>\n

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