Roanoke City Councilman Rupert Cutler announced Monday that the city has increased its park land by 14 percent since 2005, largely by transferring undeveloped land into the parks system, including the site where Victory Stadium once stood.
Cutler, whose career has long been focused on the environment, said that since the council rewrote the city code four years ago, Roanoke has added 254 acres of park land.
The addition of the new park land, Cutler said, demonstrates the city’s “commitment to the future of park lands and open space in our beautiful valley, and its understanding of what makes Roanoke a great place to live.”
The acreage included:
- Fifty-seven acres on Mill Mountain. The land was included in the original grant to the city from J.B. Fishburn, but adding it to the park system, Cutler said, “creates the potential for new uses.”
- Twenty-four acres along the Lick Run Greenway.
- Thirty-five acres on Reserve Avenue. That includes the former Victory Stadium site and the National Guard armory. The Victory Stadium site is now predominately being used for recreational ballfields.
- Eighteen acres that have been set aside for a future greenway in Garden City.
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