SAN FRANCISCO: As authorities pull back from the costs and responsibilities of managing community parkland, increasingly adjacent neighbours are taking on both tasks.
But in a first step, a community is initiating its own park.
Plans for the new park are available for public consultation and submissions for the next six weeks, and construction is expected to start early next year.
The land, which has remained railed off and unused for more than eight years, was the site of a social housing block.
The council’s management had wanted to sell the site to developers, but were blocked by local councillors who wanted to keep it for community use because of the lack of green spaces in the area.
