GENERAL MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY PARK PLANNING 



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No such caution need be suggested as to the use of the county as a 

 planning and administrative unit for parks where the municipal corpora- 

 tions within the boundaries range from villages to small cities. While large 

 numbers of the nearly 13,000 villages in the United States under 2,500 

 inhabitants have acquired one or more parks, their financial resources are 

 really too small to maintain a vear-round recreation service with a trained 



PLATE No. 32 



PLAN MAP OF THE CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN PARK DISTRICT SHOWING THE 

 PROPOSED METROPOLITAN PARK SYSTEM 



The Cleveland Metropolitan Park District was created in 1917 under the authority of an act of the Legislature 

 of the State of Ohio. It comprises approximately the whole of Cuyahoga County but provision is made in the law 

 for its extension into other surrounding counties. Up to the early part of 1926 approximately 10,000 acres of the 

 plan outlined in the above map had been acquired. 



