Marte relays Won's questions on Sunnyside and Woodside site deficits
Marte relays Won's concerns about Sunnyside having only 3 secondary sites and Woodside having 15 sites (12 secondary), asking how Parks will address inequities in Sunnyside and prioritize acquisitions in Woodside. A Parks staff member explains GIS analysis captured all eligible Sunnyside sites and that community board input shaped selections.
Sunnyside and Woodside have the deepest park deficit in CD2.
Out of the 37 identified sites, three are in Sunnyside and 15 are in Woodside.
As the neighborhood with the most severe lack of public access in CD2, it is deeply concerning to see that only three sites, all of which categorized as secondary sites, have been identified in Sunnyside.
How will parks address this persistent open space inequity for Sunnyside residents, especially those in South Sunnyside who have only one point?
eight four acres of open space.
And my add-on question to that is, while Woodside has a total of 15 sites identified in this proposal, 12 of these are secondary sites, which seem less likely to be acquired because they already have buildings on the property.
How will New York City Parks prioritize making sure that these acquisitions move forward in Woodside?
So I guess you can answer the Sunnyside question first and then go to the Woodside question.
Yeah, so I'll just speak a little bit to our process for identifying the secondary sites.
So for Sunnyside, we really included all of the sites that we could.
We did a GIS analysis where we looked at all of the lots that met all of our criteria.
And unfortunately, in Sunnyside, there weren't as many sites that met those criteria.
And then as well, I'll just add that we engaged a lot with the community board throughout this process.
We are really responsive to what they wanted to see.
So the sites that you see included in the application are also a reflection of all of that outreach to the community board as well.