Calling all park fans: the city of Los Angeles is finalizing a new plan that could affect how your favorite park gets maintained.

The 2025 Park Needs Assessment is a roadmap that’s published about once in a generation. It’s supposed to guide the city’s decision-making on how to improve our local parks, such as where to do major repairs or add new greenspace. MOre than 500 parks are ranked.

The Board of Recreation and Park Commissioners will take up the report in December, but between now and October, you can share your thoughts.

Here’s what you should know about the plan.

Why now?

The last needs assessment happened in 2009. Since then, park funding has lagged.

Between fiscal years 2009 and 2023, the parks department’s operating budget grew at half the rate of the city’s overa

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