There will be 124 acres of parks through this project alongside 12.9 miles of trails.
“This is a high-priority infrastructure project that will help us continue to capitalize on the momentum in our city,” Mayor Eric Johnson said in the press release. “The trail can improve the environment and the health, quality of life, and mobility of residents in the historically underserved and overlooked communities like the ones where I grew up.”
Robert Kent, Texas state director for the Trust for Public Land, said in a press release that the entire greenbelt network will benefit not only the residents of southwest Dallas and Oak Cliff but will make the natural beauty of the area accessible to all of Dallas. “Parks have the power to improve health, benefit the environment, build equity, and bring the community together, but only about half of the nearly 200,000 residents living in the Five Mile Creek watershed have access to a park or trail within a 10-minute walk of home,” Kent said.
A spokesperson with the Trust for Public Land said that the money will help bring the project to life by helping fund capital needs, technical design and engineering, and other costs associated with the project.. Sriya Reddy covers southern Dallas as a Report For America corps member. She is a Dallas native and graduate from Southern Methodist University where she worked at the student paper, The Daily Campus, for three years.
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