Residents act to protect city parks
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| A father and son play football in Hopkins Green, one of Lexington's green spaces not currently considered a protected park space. (ALICIA BUDICH/The Rockbridge Report) |
About 100 Lexington residents have taken action in an effort to protect local parks. Only two of Lexington’s parks are legally protected as park land, so citizens are proposing that seven of the eight remaining parks, as well as the protected ones, be rezoned into a designated parkland zone. 
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