This project funds design and construction of new park facilities and amenities. Improvements may include, but are not limited to, picnic shelters, seating, courts, hardscape, activation support features, parking, signage, landscaping, walkways, exercise equipment, recreational and site amenities, retaining walls, dog exercise areas, park management support elements, utilities, site work, buildings and other park structures, signage, etc. and are often combined with other projects.

Level-of-effort increase to address improvements and new elements that are generally part of other coordinated capital projects in parks. Also, increase due to the addition of FY27-28 of this ongoing project. FY23 addition of $1M State Aid for improvements and renovations at S. Germantown Recreational Park.

2017 Parks, Recreation, and Open Space (PROS) Plan. 2005 Land Preservation, Park and Recreation Plan. Individual park master plans.

FY20 Supplemental Appropriation of $250k in State Aid for Black Hill Regional Park: SEED Classroom. July 2020, reduced GO Bonds $80k for affordability, FY21 Savings Plan.FY19 Special Appropriation of $180k in G.O. Bonds for Maydale Nature Center. Addition of a Bond Bill ($75,000) in FY18 for Maydale Nature Center. Added $250k in FY17 for Maydale Nature Center. In FY13, supplemental appropriation added $200,000 in State Aid funding. Prior year partial capitalization of expenditures through FY16 total $2,703,000. In FY20, transferred $250k in State Aid to the Black Hill Regional Park SEED Classroom (P872101).

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.