{"id":21460,"date":"2018-10-10T12:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=21460"},"modified":"2018-10-10T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:40:53","slug":"olmsted-parks-conservancy-continues-5-year-plan-discussion-at-mlk-jr-park-on-october-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2018\/10\/olmsted-parks-conservancy-continues-5-year-plan-discussion-at-mlk-jr-park-on-october-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"Olmsted Parks Conservancy Continues 5 Year Plan Discussion at MLK, JR.  Park on October 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, the first nonprofit organization in the nation to both steward and maintain a historic urban park system, announced\u00a0a second set of community meetings to discuss improvement priorities for the city\u2019s Olmsted-designed parks.\u00a0\u00a0With support from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and assistance from the University at Buffalo Regional Institute, the Conservancy seeks to gain community feedback and suggestions on operational and project planning priorities for the Olmsted Park System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community engagement process will culminate in a Five Year Plan report to be presented to the public at the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy\u2019s State of the Olmsted Parks address in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This second set of meetings will focus on a review of comprehensive comments and suggestions for park improvement projects acquired from this summer\u2019s meetings.\u00a0 A brief presentation and dialogue will provide detail on consistent project recommendations as well as highlight some emerging themes for improving the Olmsted Parks system-wide. Meetings are being promoted in partnership with City of Buffalo Councilmembers and are scheduled as follow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Riverside Park \u2013 Wednesday, October 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 6:00 \u2013 6:30pm \u2013 St Mark\u2019s and All Saints\u2019 &#8211; Parish Hall (256 Riverside Ave.) \u2013\u00a0<em>in conjunction with a ReDiscover Riverside Meeting<\/em><\/li><li>Delaware District \u2013 Monday, October 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 6:30 \u2013 7:30pm \u2013 Marcy Casino (199 Lincoln Pkwy)<\/li><li>MLK, Jr. Park \u2013 Wednesday, October 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 6:30 \u2013 7:30pm &#8211; Buffalo Museum of Science (1020 Humboldt Parkway)<\/li><li>West District \u2013 Monday, November 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 6:00 &#8211; 7:00pm \u2013 Niagara Branch Library (280 Porter Avenue)<\/li><li>South District &#8211; Wednesday, November 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 6:30 \u2013 7:30pm &#8211; Tosh Collins Community Center (35 Cazenovia Street)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The third and final series of community meetings will be conducted in late January next year, prior to concluding the Five Year Plan report.\u00a0\u00a0Notice for meetings will be advertised through the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfloparks.org\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.bfloparks.org\/events<\/a>), social media, neighborhood newspapers and in partnership with City of Buffalo Common Councilmembers.\u00a0\u00a0Please engage in this very important community input process which will shape the future of Buffalo\u2019s Olmsted Parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, the first nonprofit organization in the nation to both steward and maintain a historic urban park system, announced\u00a0a second set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1088,1086],"class_list":["post-21460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-buffalo-olmsted-parks-conservancy","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fullscreen-capture-10102018-123841-PM.jpg?fit=595%2C336&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-5A8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21462,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21460\/revisions\/21462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}