Comment by bluefirebrand

> If people don't care enough about a park to fund it, then that space may be of better use to something else

Once the land is used for something else, it will never become a park again.

It is important for us to safeguard land for greenspace like parks and playgrounds and community gardens and stuff, because it is incredibly difficult to reclaim space to make those sorts of spaces once there is a building or different zoning on the land