Shannon LeeThe Conservation Fund

Urban Conservation Manager

Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park

Mamie Moore Member, The Beloved Community

Shannon Lee The Conservation Fund

8 Million Acres Protected Across America

Social Environmental Economic

Triple Bottom Line Outcomes

Shared Values – Nonprofit Partners

Delivering new parks and greenspaces through a community-centered process that provides environmental, economic, and social justice outcomes for those that live,

work, and play in some of our most vulnerable communities.

Acknowledgement of Environmental and Racial Injustices

Proctor Creek Headwaters - 1892

Proctor Creek Headwaters - Today

The Beloved Community - Cultural and Historic Significance

Impacts of Disinvestment

•Risk of gentrification & displacement

•Highest poverty, vacancy & crime rates

•40% foreclosure rate

•Average household income $22,474

•Natural creek obliterated by development

•Severe stormwater flooding

•Combined sewer area

•29 EPA identified hotspots along the creek

Proctor North Avenue Green Infrastructure Vision Plan – PNA Study

Implementing the PNA Vision

Vine City Park

EPA 2016 Rain Catcher

Award

2016 APA Excellence in

Sustainability Award

BEFORE

AFTER

Lindsay Street Park

BEFORE

AFTER

2016 - Vacant and Blighted Land

Getting Started

Community Visioning Process

Building Community Capacity

Neighborhood Park Ambassadors

Green Infrastructure Tours

Community ScienceWorkforce Training

Working Together

“Community residents are the ones that live with these challenges. We must be at the table, as full participants to address these issues head on, and find sustainable solutions.

- Tony Torrence, President Community Improvement Association

Kathryn Johnston Memorial Park

Green Infrastructure - 3.5 Million Gallons Captured Annually

Stormwater Planters

Rain Gardens

Underground Storage

Construction Began November 2018

Ribbon Cutting Being Planned for October 2019!

Leveraging Funding Partners– Corporate, Philanthropic, & Public