anchor Description
This project funds design and construction of renovations, modifications, and modernizations of local parks, with projects generally between $1 to $3.5 M. These renovation projects are typically more complex and/or extensive than Level-of-Effort PDFs will support, and may require planning, public outreach, and Planning Board approval where POS funds are used. Improvements may include, but are not limited to, renovating and/or converting existing amenities, adding new park elements and features, modernizing facilities, improving infrastructure, etc.
anchorCost Change
Increased level-of-effort to reflect rising renovation costs and growing list of candidate projects. In FY23, $2.75M State Aid added for the Long Branch Parks Initiative that will coordinate renovations and improvements in Long Branch-area Parks ($250k Legislative Bond Initiative and $2.5M Local Parks and Playground Infrastructure grant).list for park renovations. Also, increase due to the addition of two fiscal years to this ongoing project.
anchor Justification
This project responds to the challenge of maintaining an aging park system while meeting increasing demands from a growing population, escalating costs, and tightening fiscal conditions. The traditional method of large-scale renovations utilizing facility planning and stand-alone CIP projects is not a one-size-fits-all approach to delivering a modern park system at a reasonable cost. This provides the agency an additional tool that streamlines the park development process with smaller scale projects, allowing the agency to be more responsive to life-cycles of infrastructure and meeting goals and objectives of the PROS 2017 plan and individual master plans.
anchorOther
The goal of this project is to fund 1-2 renovation projects each year during all years of the CIP.
anchorDisclosures
Expenditures will continue indefinitely.
M-NCPPC asserts that this project conforms to the requirement of relevant local plans, as required by the Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Act.
anchorCoordination
M-NCPPC Planning Department; Montgomery County Departments of Transportation, Permitting Services, Environmental Protection; Regional Services Centers and Urban Districts.