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PARKI TECTURE
Corps, which was responsible for
building a lot of the most famous
elements within our national, state
and sometimes local parks, such as
trails in Acadia National Park in
Maine and the Red Rocks Park and
Amphitheater in Denver.
But the New Deal also created
the Housing Act of 1934, establishing
Administration.
This act created
government-backed
fixed-interest
the Federal Housing
loans, low
rates, the 30-year
mortgage, and largely was attributed
to creating the middle class -
the white middle class, that is. In
order for these mortgages to be
backed by the government, the
Homeowners Loan Corporation
created Residential Security Maps.
In these maps, they color-coded
cities to determine where it would
be easiest to get a loan: green for
the best areas where businessmen
lived, blue for still desirable areas
largely made up of white-collar
families, yellow for declining areas
with working class families, and
red for high-risk or hazardous areas
made up of foreign-born people,
low-income white people and
Black people. This is where the
term " redlining " comes from, and
we still see its influence today.
Why the history lesson and what
does this have to do with parks?
Redlining affected not only the
demographics of neighborhoods
by dictating who could get loans,
but also it largely influenced the
investment in infrastructure made
in those areas. Real estate is about
location, location, location, right?
Well, if the right location largely
dictates the value of your house,
and the value of your house dictates
your property taxes, and
property tax is the major government
funding vehicle, it's easy to
see how areas rated green would
have better schools, roads and -
parks. How does something that
happened 100 years ago impact us
now? Well, according to the National
Community Reinvestment
Coalition,
three out of four of
the redlined neighborhoods in the
1930s are still low-to-moderate income
today, and 65 percent are still
majority minority, while 91 percent
of areas classified as " best " remain
middle- to upper-income today,
with 85 percent of them still predominantly
white (ncrc.org/holc).
Creating a More Equitable
Park System
So, how do you create a more equitable
park system? A good starting
point is to analyze who has the
greatest access to parks. Do you see
results like the TPL study where
predominantly Black and Brown
communities have less access to
high-quality parks? Do you need
to invest more to provide equitable
parks and open spaces in minority
communities?
Here at the Fairfax County (Virginia)
Park Authority (FCPA), we
are addressing equity on multiple
fronts. We just finished our Parks,
Recreation, Open Space and Access
(PROSA) Plan that will guide
us toward improved park access,
park equity and a stronger balance
of park experiences countywide
(tinyurl.com/4ad8pkdt).
This
When seeking to create a more
equitable park system, a good starting
point is to analyze who has the
greatest access to parks.
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will be our way to measure how
we're serving all of our community
and help us prioritize projects
to get the biggest bang for our
buck. Our PROSA strategy has
four main components: improve
10-minute walk access to FCPA
park entrances, enhance access to
complete park experiences, enrich
habitat connectivity between environmental
corridors, and analyze
and prioritize park and recreational
needs and projects through an
equity lens. We found that while
PHOTO COURTESY OF FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK AUTHORITY
http://www.ncrc.org/holc
http://tinyurl.com/4ad8pkdt
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