Questions and Considerations


  • Has your municipality done any analysis of the equitable access to green space across the community? If not yet, that would be important to undertake.
  • Is equitable access to Green Space taken into consideration in identifying priority neighbourhoods?
  • How the COVID experience may be able to build more public/political support for the value of green space?
  • Underutilized space and Green Space conversions?
  • Can this help with supports for Green Streets?
  • Possibility of increased resident support/advocacy for more green space across the community. Or more diversity in allocation to non-sport-fields land uses within green spaces? For our green spaces to serve a wider variety of uses across our communities. Either in the short-term, while sports fields may be out of the use or over the longer term re increasing more diverse uses through Parks Master Planning process.
  • Hoped for an outcome: can COVID experience build a new approach to city planning that brings open spaces, watersheds, forests and parks into the heart of how we think about and plan our communities?
  • Brainstorming messaging & resources so that all can be equipped to engage in these conversations in their municipality and communities.