Since September 2013, Clear Village has been working with the Friends of Roxton Road Parks (FoRPP) to revitalize a small network of downtown parks in Toronto, Canada. FoRPP aims to improve the parks’ infrastructure and programming for the benefit of local area residents, but the group also has broader objectives: to become a leader in community organizing at the local scale and to champion city parks as a contributor to the health of the urban ecosystem.
This December, FoRPP submitted a grant application to the LiveGreen programme with support from Clear Village and obtained just over $19,000 to build a rain garden in Fred Hamilton Park. The rain garden will harvest and redistribute storm water runoff from municipal buildings within the park, representing a truly green solution to issues of both storm water management and scarcity of water supply for local community gardens. Congratulations FoRPP!