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PA R K T R E N D S

Parks Everywhere,
Especially Underground
Innovative locations for public parks are
being proposed everywhere - on the tops
of tall buildings, in the middle of stormwater management areas, even in abandoned
underground spaces. Thirty years ago,
who would have thought that repurposing
abandoned rail corridors into linear parks
and active transportation networks would
become a nationwide movement that
would conserve more than 22,000 miles of
unused rail lines that would be converted
to hiking and biking trails?
Today, the spotlight is on underground
parks. New York's Lowline, billed as " the
world's first subterranean green space " and
scheduled to open in 2021, is the conversion of an abandoned underground trolley
terminal. Increasingly, the question most
often asked about unused public space in
cities across America is becoming: " How
can we turn this space into a park? "
PREDICTION:
Major new underground public parks will be proposed in
three cities. Advocates fighting to keep the now-closed
Battery Street tunnel in Seattle (https://tinyurl.
com/y8ebwrsf) from being filled with rubble
from the demolished Viaduct will win their fight,
and this underground space will be turned into
a unique and endlessly interesting public park.

Parks as Supervised
Opioid Injection Sites
With the spread of opioid abuse nationwide, some parks and public areas regrettably have become preferred sites for opioid users. In response, some localities are
considering providing designated opioid
injection sites that are staffed with healthcare professionals to supervise injections.
Such public health outreach has a long
history in Europe, as well as in Canada
and Australia. Most recently in the United States, King County, Washington, received state approval to establish an approved opioid injection site. More states
are considering such proposals.
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PREDICTION:
One or more newly designated, supervised opioid
injection sites will be established in a U.S. community
recreation center in 2018.

Hepatitis, Coming to a Park Near You?
Public lands under highway bridges and
along streams have sometimes become
sites for homeless encampments. Such sites
are much more likely to spread communicable diseases from unsanitary conditions
and shared drug paraphernalia. In August
2017, the CDC notified all state and local
health departments regarding investigations
of clusters of hepatitis A in persons who
were homeless and/or used injection drugs
(https://tinyurl.com/y79opeuq). Recent
outbreaks of hepatitis A in San Diego, Los
Angeles and Santa Cruz, California, were
widely reported in 2017 and incidences of
hepatitis A have increased in other states,
including Michigan, Kentucky and Utah.
PREDICTION:
Sadly, a U.S. park system
will become the site of a
hepatitis A outbreak in 2018.

Parks and Rec as Partners in
Evidence-Based Health Delivery
On the good news side regarding parks
and health, many park and recreation areas are not only becoming places to improve health through physical activity, but
also places to participate in evidence-based
programs that measurably improve health.
NRPA-sponsored programs with local
park and rec agencies (http://www.nrpa.
org/our-work/partnerships/initiatives/
healthy-aging-in-parks/evidence-basedinterventions/) range from Active Living
Every Day for sedentary adults to Walk
With Ease low-impact, weekly walking
programs and arthritis intervention programs, such as Fit and Strong!, for those
with osteoarthritis. One hundred and fif-

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ty-five agencies representing 45 states have
already made commitments to implement
arthritis evidence-based physical activity
programs in parks.
PREDICTION:
At least one park and recreation agency will sign a contract in 2018 with a healthcare
system to participate in a
Community Integrated Health model program.

Drones, Drones and More Drones
Drone use by public-sector agencies is becoming increasingly more widespread with
governmental drones performing duties like
successful search and rescue operations,
surveillance of illegal activity and tracking
the spread of invasive species. Drones will
only continue to become more popular with
the public who are looking for places to fly
and by agency staff who are looking to utilize their unique capabilities.
PREDICTION:
Commercial and recreational drones will prove
their value to parks in 2018.
Drone use will expand, improving the ability to count visitors, provide
security monitoring, and engage in firefighting and search-and-rescue missions,
not to mention saving much- needed funds.

Billionaires Love Parks
In the past five years, there have been a series of extraordinary gifts to parks across
the country by very wealthy individuals
who want to give back to their communities. These have included a $100 million gift
to the Central Park Conservancy by hedge
fund manager John A. Paulson in 2012; a
$350 million donation by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to the River Parks
Authority in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and many
multimillion-dollar donations to park systems, including two gifts by Ken Griffin to
the Chicago Park District: a $12 million
donation in 2016 to create a bicycle and
pedestrian-separated trails along the
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