What activities would attract you to a Boston waterfront park? [New poll!]
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Open, green space and parks have wide-ranging and well-documented benefits to our quality of life, health, resilience to climate change impacts including rising sea levels, and overall social cohesion.
Parks bring communities together, revitalize neighborhoods through increased community engagement, and can even influence where people choose to live, work and play. In responding to a study done by The Trustees last summer, well over half of residents surveyed (60%) said that living close to open space was extremely or very important when considering where to raise a family, and one-third (31%) said the same thing about where they would like to work.
A recent, informal poll posted on our website earlier this month found that a majority of respondents expressed excitement about the multi-faceted benefits a park could bring to our waterfront city, including improved resilience to rising sea levels and temperatures, increased public and private investment in open space and green infrastructure, having a platform for building a more equitable and cohesive community, becoming a more competitive city that continues to attract the best talent, and generating increased tax revenue.
Above: The results from our last poll are in!
The next poll question from our One Waterfront team is now live! We want to know: What types of activities would attract you to a Boston waterfront park?
To take the poll, visit: https://onewaterfront.thetrustees.org/poll