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CITY OF LITTLE CANADA - PARK SYSTEM MASTER PLAN35 <br />Environment/Sustainability <br />Increasing awareness and concern about climate change and water <br />and air pollution has led to a desire for the integration of sustainable <br />practices. This translates into strategies such as converting ornamental <br />turf areas to native grasses, prairie or community gardens, adding <br />rain gardens, increasing urban tree canopy, and including physical <br />and digital green infrastructure / rain water management interpretive <br />displays. Longer growing seasons and shortened winters are leading <br />some organizations to explore refrigerated outdoor ice and snow- <br />making. <br />“Small and Simple” <br />“Small and Simple” is a <br />trending idea being explored <br />by organizations in response to <br />quickly changing demands for <br />new and novel programming <br />and aging residents, and <br />includes activities that require <br />smaller spaces and less skill, <br />cost, equipment, and time. A <br />community can more easily <br />accommodate things like <br />shortened seasons (from 12-16 <br />weeks to 4-8 weeks), smaller <br />groups, and low-implementation <br />cost activities like mini-soccer, <br />ultimate Frisbee, pickleball, <br />kickball, and body-weight <br />exercises (push-ups, planks, <br />lunges, etc). <br />Demographics <br />Threaded throughout these trends are underlying changes in <br />demographics. The population of the US and Little Canada is <br />increasingly diverse and aging. Plans need to take an approach <br />to providing facilities and services that consider the needs of an <br />increasingly multi-cultural and aging citizenry.