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A total of $43 million from an offshore oil and gas royalty fund will be allocated towards recreation and conservation projects—like parks—throughout the nation.
The announcement was made during a July 8, 2014 meeting, at Gateway Park in Fort Worth Texas, where Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, accompanied by Fort Worth’s Mayor Betsy Price, spoke of the need to reauthorize federal funding for open space projects like trails, parks, playgrounds, greenways and urban wildlife refuges.
In an article from the Washington Post, Price, who is the co-chair of the City Parks Alliance’s Mayors for Parks Coalition—a group of mayors who champion the cause of urban parks and open spaces, said:
“As we’re growing in density with people returning to urban centers, it’s critical that we provide that element of outdoor living and the wild areas for people to realize where they come from.”
According to the article, Texas will receive $2.5 million from the fund which has helped pay for 42,000 state and local projects, since 1964.
To learn more, read the full article here.
By The Numbers
33
percent
of Latinos live within walking distance (<1 mile) of a park
