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| | Allegheny County park plan remains unrealized (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The Allegheny County Parks Comprehensive Master Plan, an inch-thick document finished more than three years ago, says county officials have to tap the potentially lucrative world of private foundations, corporate entities and individual donors if they want to bring the parks system into the 21st century. |
 | | The parks commission, which meets publicly every other month, also has been involved in trying to establish a fund-raising body, said John Oliver, the commission's chairman and former secretary of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. |
 | | The Parks Department, along with public works, has spent $100,000 to build four fenced-in play areas for dogs, replaced dozens of aging playgrounds in North and South parks, and is bringing snow tubing to the ski slopes at Boyce Park. |
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