Santa Clara has 47 parks and 65 park buildings, many of them built in the 1960s; and, like other city infrastructure built in 1960s is reaching the end of its usable life. Now, Santa Clara faces almost $400 million in unfunded Parks and Recreation needs.
“When we did our condition assessment in 2017 for those 47 parks, we had $89 million worth of investment that was required for the first five years,” said acting Director of Parks and Recreation Cynthia Bojorquez “and another $319 million for our buildings.
“We’ve made great improvements in some of our parks, already,” she continued. “We just recently opened the Magic Bridges park. We renovated Maywood park and we renovated Westwood Oaks park. But we have a number of parks across the city that are still in very poor condition.”…