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Grand jury urges clearer park-pathway scores and accessibility data; Rec & Park says website migration and staffing will address gaps
Summary
A civil grand jury found San Francisco's park evaluation scores are not visible on individual park pages and argued pathway-condition and accessibility metrics should be published for users. Recreation & Parks said its Prop C park-evaluation program measures hardscape but that quarterly scores take time to compile; the department plans a website migration and an added disability-access coordinator.
The civil grand jury told the Board's Government Audit and Oversight Committee Sept. 15 that San Francisco's park feature scores are insufficiently visible to the public and do not reliably convey pathway conditions or ADA accessibility at individual parks.
Grand juror Tony Au said the city's park evaluation program reports a 12-feature score for 220 parks, but those scores are appearance-based and not surfaced on individual park pages. "We want to have different features on that park's description saying how safe is the pathway for this park," Au said, adding that peak public utility would come from publishing the most recent feature score on…
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