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Equity Metrics with FY17 Data
With the approval of Proposition B in June 2016, a revision to Section 16.107 Park, Recreation, and Open Space Fund of the City Charter
mandates the Department to formally consider and measure equity. Specifically, the Charter directs
“… the Department shall develop, and the Commission shall adopt, a set of equity metrics to
be used to establish a baseline of existing Recreation and park services and resources in “low
income neighborhoods and disadvantaged communities, compared to services and resources
available in the City as a whole.”
Using a dataset adopted by the State of California called CalEnviroScreen 2.0, which provides a standard definition of “disadvantaged” by
census tract. Setting the standard at the 20% most disadvantaged residents by census tract in San Francisco, the map below illustrates
these areas now designated as Equity Zones. With this designation, the parks in service of these residents could be named, on data for
those sites was collected, calculated, and compared to all other sites and the City as a whole:
Equity Zone (EZ)
Park Access
Park Maintenance
Recreation Resources
Park Investment
Volunteers
Safety
Kids & Nature
20% of the City’s population
40% by number of parks and 15% of park acreage
87% is average Park Evaluation score of all EZ parks
37% of all Recreation Resources was provided in EZ parks
53% of Capital funding (FY15-FY17) allocated to EZ parks
22% of Volunteer hours (both park and recreation) given at EZ park
59% of all SFPD Incidents near-a-park were at EZ parks
22% of registrants in Outdoor Recreation programs live in EZs

See next page for full
Equity Metrics data and
comparative values
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