Franklin Park Advocacy
Everyday park users, park neighbors, and community members can make a huge difference when they raise their voice for Franklin Park. Here's how you can be a park activist:
- Email, call, or send a letter, to the Mayor and City Councilors about park issues you want addressed. Click here for the elected officials contact list. Every spring when the city budget is being debated, it's critical for elected officials to hear from us. Let them know the Park Rangers, the Boston Parks Department and Franklin Park need funding!
- Report park maintenance needs that you see in the park: Call 617-635-PARK.
- Use the Eyes on the Park handbill for other problems you witness.
- Become a member of the Coalition, for only $5. A larger contribution will help even more.
- Come to a park volunteer day and bring your friends. If you use the park, bring a neighbor who doesn't.
- Ask your company or workplace to be a sponsor for the Summer Youth Crew, the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park, or our Woodlands Restoration Campaign.
What do we want?
A park that everyone feels comfortable using. A clean and well-maintained park with no graffiti. A place for dog walkers, golfers, joggers, basketball and cricket players. A park for children who want to play and families who want to picnic in a beautiful spot.
- We want more neighbors involved in making decisions about the park.
- We want a Franklin Park Management Plan that outlines policies for maintenance, transportation and parking, and special events in the park.
- We want the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park to become a weekly event in Boston's summer arts scene that neighbors can expect every year.
- We want young people involved in the park - exploring, learning, and working - all year around.
- We want the woodlands to exist in perpetuity with an ongoing plan for planting new trees, managing invasive weeds, and maintaining paths.
- We want better policing of the park to change its reputation from years past as a dangerous place.
- We want less traffic in the park, so it's safer for walkers and joggers.
- We want better maintenance and more funds for park restoration projects.
- We want to make sure large events and activities in the park don't overwhelm the landscape or the surrounding neighborhoods.
That's quite a list, and we can't do it alone. We need your energy, your ideas, and your enthusiasm.
How can we get there? With your help.
Boston Park Rangers being honored by FPC in 2003 after near elimination in the city budget. The Rangers were saved because of letters and advocacy from people like you.