Parks & Recreation
Parks & recreation are essential focus areas for local and state government agencies, responsible for creating and maintaining public spaces that enhance residents’ quality of life. These services provide opportunities for outdoor activities, community engagement, and environmental conservation. Effective management of parks and recreational facilities contributes to the overall well-being of communities. This directory offers articles on parks and recreation, along with related topics like Community Development, which explores initiatives that improve the livability and vitality of neighborhoods and cities.
Establishing large event security communications plans can serve your organization well in both planned and unplanned events.
FirstNet services, devices and training prepare first responders and emergency communications at the Citizen Potawatomi Tribe’s annual FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Open national parks are experiencing garbage overflows, restroom impacts and illegal off-roading, risking park damage as well as public health and safety impacts due to staffing shortage in government shutdown.
Since 2015, San Marcos has offered artists grants for placemaking murals projects.
The city of New Orleans has not discussed strategy for removing Jim Crow-era statues, but the masked firefighters may have volunteered.
Sustainability
The project along the Trinity River corridor will implement beneficial reuse as a flood management strategy.
Sometimes citizens take matters into their own hands with a lingering blighted public parcel, depositing their point of view on city hall’s doorsteps.
The city of Seattle offers a free shower program for homeless residents through its community centers.
The year-round garden center, plots sold by the city of Milwaukee for $500 as part of its vacant lot program, will provide training and create jobs.
The Trump budget promised to make deep environmental cuts across the Federal government, and the impact on Colorado workers could be huge.
Movement to make parks and trails ADA-compliant is taking hold. Disabled access offers wildlife, nature programming and sensory gardens to all.
BikingExpert.com looked at locations throughout the United States to find out which are the country’s most bike friendly cities.
King County Parks is working with SeeClickFix to test 311 app technology for park and recreation properties and trails.
A look at several cities’ bike share systems reveals what is and isn’t working for small hubs and the largest metros.
Find out how cities warm up winter and engage residents with recreation. From sledding to sand snowmen and even a frozen guy, these cities know how to fight citizen hibernation.
Sustainability
Under consent decree, Dupont will pay to restore Virginia’s South and Shenandoah Rivers from mercury pollution released from 1929 to 1950 and discovered in 1976.
Municipalities can partner with schools and others to apply for matching grants for outdoor fitness equipment purchases through Greenfields Outdoor Fitness.
From their potential to promote branding to the partnerships they create, festivals further both cultural and economic development in numerous cities.
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