The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is encouraging its local members to participate in a survey that will help the City of Pittsburgh create an Open Space, Parks, and Recreation Plan (OPENSPACEPGH). Through staff members’ participation with the Green Ribbon Committee, an advisory group for the plan, WPC hopes to build on its extensive greening work in Pittsburgh and give its members a voice in future planning activities.

Survey responses will help decide what types of programs, facilities, and opportunities are important, where they should be located and how they should be maintained. Participants will allow the city and partners like WPC to make better-informed decisions about future vacant land, open space, parks and recreation efforts.

Two surveys are posted on the PLANPGH website at http://exchange.planpgh.com/portal): one for adults and one for youth.

The survey will be open now through August 31st.