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Park advocates outline options to close Denver’s parkland gap and protect South Platte River
Summary
Denver Park Trust and planners told the South Platte River Committee that Denver faces a parkland shortfall (roughly 1,300 acres by one estimate) and proposed tools — overlays, a river district, buildable‑lands analysis and pilots — to create river‑sensitive park and open‑space protections and add city park acreage.
Denver Park Trust representatives and former city planning staff briefed the South Platte River Committee on Jan. 14 about the city’s parkland shortfall and opportunities to strengthen protections and expand open space along the South Platte River corridor.
Rocky Pero, a retired city planning director who now works on park advocacy, said Game Plan (the city's parks framework) previously identified roughly a 1,300‑acre deficit in parkland and projected the gap could grow under a status‑quo scenario. He cited Trust for Public Land benchmarks showing a national average of about 13 acres of parkland per 1,000 residents, compared with Denver’s current reported average of about 9 acres per 1,000.
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