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San Diego Parks Get Good Marks

The Balboa Park Botanical Building and Lily Pond are shown in this photo, Nov. 24, 2016.
KPBS Staff
The Balboa Park Botanical Building and Lily Pond are shown in this photo, Nov. 24, 2016.

San Diego ranked 16th in the Trust for Public Land poll released Wednesday. The city got higher than average marks in the four categories measured in the survey.

The categories include access, acreage, spending and amenities.

The Trust's Charlie McCabe put together the survey and he gives San Diego credit for setting aside 23 percent of its land for parks.

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"It does really well in acreage. It does very well in investment. And it does pretty well in access. The lowest of the four categories would be amenities," McCabe said.

Chula Vista was ranked at 76 on the survey putting the community in the lowest quarter of rated cities.

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"It's amenity score is actually higher than San Diego so it has more things like playgrounds and basketball hoops. But in terms of both acreage and investment its much lower. And in terms of access it is lower," McCabe said.

Not all of San Diego's neighborhoods share in the city's rich bounty of public parks.

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A recent survey by the San Diego Foundation found many inner-city neighborhoods have a park deficit because there isn't enough parkland within easy walking distance.

San Diego Parks Get Good Marks
San Diego got good marks in a national survey of parks in the country's largest 100 cities.